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NBC wanted a decision quick, and it got one: Conan O’Brien says he will quit [Update: or to be precise, all but says it] the Tonight Show if NBC moves it to 12:05 to shoehorn in Jay Leno at 11:35. This is not Conan “quitting” the Tonight Show exactly, but it is demanding NBC choose him or Leno.
[Update: NBC says that, yes, there will be …
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More news tidbits from the Winter TV Press Tour in Pasadena:
* Fox says it hasn’t had official talks with Conan O’Brien, other than to “commiserate” with his people. There, there, let it all out. Why don’t you dry your tears with this contract?
* Ron Moore says you don’t need to have seen Battlestar Galactica to get his new SyFy …
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I kind of don’t want to do a “Ooooh, look at the late-night hosts ripping on NBC!” post. I mean, late-night comedians making jokes about their own (or other) networks stopped being daring, what, 25 years ago? Was it even daring then?
That said: Ooooh, look at Conan ripping on NBC!
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Presenting its midseason programming to TV reporters and critics in Pasadena this weekend, NBC made official its not-exactly a secret: after Feb. 11, The Jay Leno Show will be no more, at least at 10 p.m. NBC executives said that while Leno’s show was making money for the network (by lowering its costs even though it lowered the …
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One last Jaypocalypse post (I think) for the day: James Hibberd is quoting “a well-placed Fox source” as saying that Fox would be interested in (a presumably-ticked-off-at-NBC) Conan O’Brien, should he become available. Reportedly Conan has not yet agreed—pointedly—to a deal to push his Tonight show back to midnight to make room for …
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“We still make the crappiest late-night TV. When all’s said and done, we’ll be remembered as the ones that sucked the most. But what did we do? We sucked at the same damn time every night.”
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If the reports are true—and it increasingly looks like it—that NBC is planning to send back Jay Leno to 11:30, it raises a lot of questions: Will Conan stay? What does NBC program in primetime? What about Carson Daly? For this post, I’ll stick to one: Why now?
What’s most surprising about the move—again if reports hold true—is …
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Whoa—things are getting interesting at NBC, or at least in the NBC rumor department. TMZ is now reporting that the network is moving Jay Leno back to 11:30 after Feb. 1. The open question, it says: will Jay take the Tonight Show back, or will he get a half hour, followed by Conan O’Brien? (Or, will Conan be screwed, or will Conan be …
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After an appearance by William Shatner, doing one of his dramatic readings from Sarah Palin’s Going Rogue, The Tonight Show with Conan O’Brien had a special visit by a certain national author, reading from Shatner’s own autobiography:
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If they could only work out a deal to do each other’s …
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Now that the TV-cost-reduction experiment otherwise known as The Jay Leno Show is in its third week, the numbers are starting to accumulate. After a big debut, his average nightly take has been bouncing around 6 million or so—above, but not a lot above, the 5 million he averaged on Tonight—depending on the strength of his NBC lead-in …
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In case anyone was wondering, I won’t be instituting a Jay Leno Show Watch on this blog any time soon. I watched last night’s show, and it’s pretty clear that we’re watching what is—with a few variations—late night in primetime. I’ll be keeping an eye on it (and its ratings—off a sharp but not unexpected one-third in early …
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If you talk to people connected with The Jay Leno Show, they’ll tell you the new show will have more comedy and fewer guests, because viewers tune out the interviews in the second half of The Tonight Show. Leno often says that, in this celeb-saturated era, only a handful of guests really draw viewers anyway.
People connected with Conan …
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The late-night ratings for the week before last showed that a week of David Letterman reruns had beaten Conan O’Brien originals in total viewers, although the Conan originals still won in various categories of younger viewers. Last week, Conan was in reruns and Dave was in originals and… pretty much exactly the same thing happened: …
