According to TMZ the deal is done. Jay gets his show back and Conan is out. See ya NBC
Leno and NBC Strike 1 Hour 'Tonight' Deal | TMZ.com
Leno and NBC Strike 1 Hour 'Tonight' Deal | TMZ.com
It's official Jay in Conan Out
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Leno is such a weasel. I am not sure why he ever left, and why Conan agreed to let Leno have a talk show on with the same old bits directly before the Tonight Show. That just seems plain stupid. Why would jay's viewers ever give Conan a shot when they essentially had Jay on right before? I feel bad for Conan he is a good guy.
Why do you take so much pleasure in what's happening to Conan?
It will be interesting to see what Conan does for the remainder of his run and after this month though. I'm assuming if they're giving Jay an hour that they are just letting him out of his contract.
It's funny, they wanted so bad for him not to be competition that they created this situation. Now he'll still become the competition and be hotter than ever thanks to this controversy.
I don't agree with this at all. As I remember it, Jay wasn't too happy about signing the contract to give up his show when it all went down 5 years ago but NBC didn't give him much choice. I also don't believe it was his idea to do the new show at an early time slot, I think that came from the network as it was a cheap way to fill the slot and they didn't have anything new in the pipeline. And I also haven't seen anything that would indicate that Jay was the driving force in trying to get moved back to that late time slot, that seemed to be the network making a knee jerk reaction to the ratings.
I think both Jay and Conan have handled this whole situation very well considering how messy it has become. I think that NBC is the villan in all of this, which shouldn't be shocking as they screwed up the same thing with Letterman back in the day. And they are also going to end up the big losers in all of this, as well they should. Jay is going to retire eventually and at this point it doesn't look like they have anybody in the wings that will be there to step in at that point. And while they are waiting for that to happen, they are likely to be competing with Conan on another network. NBC made their bed on this and now they get to sleep in it.
Let's see how ecstatic they are when they start losing advertisers after they realize they have lost the 18-49 demographic. The ads for Jay will start to look like commercials for the price is right, all geritol and metamucil. We've got to keep those old guys regular!
I'm just amazed at how out of touch NBC is with their audience. Not just NBC but every network. I always get ****** when I see a show that is targeting college age, young adults and they put it on a Friday night. How stupid is that? What college age kid is staying in on a Friday night? Put the show on Sunday night or something. Look at the Simpson and their 20 year run. They've continually nailed the 19-34 demographic and they've always been on Sunday night. Morons, I say. They are all morons.
NBC is reportedly threatening to keep Conan under contract which means he'll be out of TV for 3 1/2 years...
And it doesn't sound like it'll be that easy to move to Fox...
News Corp.'s Carey and Ailes need to see the numbers before jumping on Conan bandwagon | Company Town | Los Angeles Times
And it doesn't sound like it'll be that easy to move to Fox...
News Corp.'s Carey and Ailes need to see the numbers before jumping on Conan bandwagon | Company Town | Los Angeles Times
I can't believe NBC let Conan go. The guy is the young gun in comedy. I wasn't a fan of him on the Tonight show (loved him on Late Night) but he was only on the job for like 6 months. I can't believe they didn't give him more time. What happens in 3 years when Jay hangs it up? Then what, NBC? Jimmy Fallon? lol...
Terrible mistake for the long term.
Terrible mistake for the long term.
Having worked in radio, I don't see any way they let him continue on the air until Jay saddles back up. Conan has already let NBC have it while they sorted this out. Now that they have a plan together, they'll throw on some repeats or start showing "classic" Tonight Show episode with Jay to get people associating the two again. It might go on a few more days, but there will be an abrupt ending with no opportunity for fanfare well ahead of Jay's return.
You mean like Friday Night Lights which I think is one of their best shows that no one has seen? If they moved that to a prime time slot where it doesn't have to compete against established shows on other networks I bet you the ratings would go through the roof allowing them to move it to any time slot they wanted.
