Conan O'Brien and NBC Agreement Allows O'Brien to Leave Network
Conan O'Brien and NBC Have Hashed Out an Agreement to End Their Partnership
After a full week of jokes all over late night, including Leno's Show, The Tonight Show, Jimmy Kimmel's Show, and David Letterman's Show. In short, NBC has become the joke of television, and it just kept getting worse as more details came out about their dealings. In truth, Conan O'Brien has been extremely funny as he poked fun at the situation that NBC was throwing his way, but the sad truth is that it is really a defense mechanism as he tried to deal with the horrible working environment that NBC had created. After NBC messed up their prime time programming, they then completely messed up their late night programming to follow it up. Now rather than having Conan O'Brien as an asset in the stable, he will become a direct competitor for someone else.
Jay Leno is officially returning to The Tonight Show at 11:35 P.M., less than a year after he "retired" from the slot and told NBC and Conan O'Brien to put him into the slot. Conan O'Brien and his full show staff then moved from New York to California to put on the new version of The Tonight Show, only to discover recently that Jay Leno wanted his show back. When history looks back, it will seem like Jimmy Fallon just took over Conan's show as O'Brien went to another network. NBC could be making a grave mistake here as well, because if Conan O'Brien moves to a network like Fox, it could further splinter the late night viewership and bring NBC even less money.
There are still details that need to come out about this deal, including how much NBC is going to be paying Conan O'Brien to end his contract, and what the salary for Jay Leno will become as the lynch-pin to their late night network. Somewhere in there we will also learn if O'Brien has to stay off of television for a certain amount of time before going to a new network, but someone is surely going to swoop in and gain his services. O'Brien has quite a good following in ratings numbers, and someone out there is going to realize it and give him another chance very soon.
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Published by Ryan Christopher DeVault
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Post a CommentPersonally, if Conan disappeared from the face of the earth I wouldn't care. I don't think he's talented OR funny! I'm not crazy about Leno either, but at least he worked himself up. Conan became a talk show host by accident!
Ryan:
http://topics.nytimes.com/top/reference/timestopics/people/l/jay_leno/index.html?scp=1&sq=leno%20sony%20fox&st=cse
From above: "Mr. Leno had been host of "The Tonight Show" from May 25, 1992, when he replaced Johnny Carson, to May 29, 2009. In 2004, NBC had announced that its franchise late-night show would go to Mr. O'Brien in May 2009. After that the network maneuvered to keep Mr. Leno lest he start a new late-night show elsewhere. Mr. Leno was known to have suitors, including ABC, the Fox network and the Sony television studio. But he was apparently persuaded to stay at NBC after aggressive personal wooing by Jeff Zucker, the chief executive of NBC Universal, a unit of General Electric."
Amanda, if you accepted a new job in a new department within your current orginization and it didn't work out, but the company say's hey we will put you back in your old position, even though it means we fire the one who took your place, would you really do that? It's wrong, and Jay should told NBC no, he wouldn't let that happen. Personally, if I took that job/gamble, I would never go back if it meant someone losing jobs
Many are saying Jay is innocent in all this, but truly the only innocent victim is Conan. Jay could have said NO when NBC tried to change his schedule and his contract. Obviously he wants to still be on the air. I am not saying "down with Jay", and I do hope both men get their TV shows they want and their fans will both be happy, but Jay is not completely clean in this scenario.
Amanda, you are also free to post a link to anything that can back up the fact that Jay Leno isn't taking the show back from Conan. IF you have anything.
This is such biased bullsh*t. Leno didn't decide to take it back from Conan. Leno is not the bad guy. NBC is the bad guy. Conan failed to come anywhere close to the ratings that Leno had and Conan failed to change his show. It was just the original Late Night on The Tonight Show. I'm 22 and I hated Conan before and I hate him now. The whole talk about the young people loving him and hating Leno is total BS. I like Leno and Fallon sooooooo much better. People mistake Conan's obnoxiousness for humor when he really isn't very humorous at all. Sorry the dude is going to be out work but I really don't care that he won't be on TV anymore.
Jay Leno is not the person I thought he is/was...he is actually taking that spot away from another person. That is ethically wrong. He gambled, and lost. Period. and now he is willing to push someone out of the way to climb back up?
That is wrong in my book.
Missy, you can feel free to link to a fact-based article about Zucker forcing Leno to leave The Tonight Show.... IF there is any basis at all to your comment.
(con't.) But please do some research on this story, by going back a few years and seeing how this whole debacle actually came about. Again, the retirement was NOT Leno's idea, he joked constantly about the fact that NBC was driving him out. And again, O'Brien's Tonight Show ratings were abyssmal!
Ryan, your article implies that Leno voluntarily wanted to "retire", and asked for the 10 p.m. ET gig instead of the Tonight Show. And that O'Brien has been doing just great in taking over that time slot. Nothing could be further from the truth!
Zucker came up with the brainstorm, years ago, that Leno would retire from NBC, thereby giving O'Brien the Tonight Show. For years, Leno was courted by other enterprises, including Fox and Sony Entertainment, but NBC only within the last year decided that they really wanted Jay, and that they'd give him a 10 p.m. slot to keep him with the network and to hopefully enhance their 10 p.m. ratings.
Well, Leno bombed in prime time, as did O'Brien in late night! These are well known, verifiable facts, yet your article implies otherwise!
You note that you are 31 years old, so I imagine you are in O'Brien's fan base. It seems that MANY people of your demographic have been writing similarl stories this week, so I don't blame you. But ple