WTF NBC

[FAGGOT WATCHIN TRON]

Apparently, NBC managed to pwn itself by fucking with their new late night talk show schedule. Full article to follow, but the long and short of it is Leno was pulling too many viewers from affiliate networks in the 10pm time slot, so they decided to push him back to 11:30 for half an hour after the news. Which would push Conan back to after midnight again. Conan got pissed, because he is supposed to be the new Tonight Show host, and is annoyed at NBC and Leno, and might end up leaving NBC altogether to move to Fox, which currently has no late night talk shows.

Leno, O'Brien jabs get sharper in NBC late-night mess

On the weekend, NBC revealed its intention to axe the experiment of moving former Tonight Show host Leno to the 10 p.m. weeknight prime-time slot and introduce a shortened version of the new show at 11:35 p.m., following the evening news.

The decision was prompted by the network's outraged affiliate stations, which said they had been losing masses of viewers since the program debuted in September.

On Monday, O'Brien rejected the move as it would shift his program to after midnight, adding that he would not participate in the "destruction" of the venerable Tonight Show's legacy.

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For his part, O'Brien said in his monologue that serving as host of Tonight had fulfilled his lifelong dream.

"And I just want to say to the kids out there watching: You can do anything you want in life," he said. "Unless Jay Leno wants to do it, too."

"Isn't it lousy cold outside today?" Letterman said. "You know, they say, from the weather bureau, they say it's caused by an Arctic chill between Jay and Conan."

Several late-night hosts, like Letterman and Ferguson, appear to be siding with O'Brien, as have many celebrities and thousands of members of the public, with "Team Conan" groups emerging across social media online.

In any event, I think its cool the other late night hosts are getting behind Conan on this one, since I really think he did get fucked the hardest in the end. I knew there was a reason I never liked Leno.

[TheOfficer]

If you haven't seen this already, I think it pretty much sums everything up:

http://www.hulu.com/watch/120471/the-tonight-show-with-conan-obrien-obama-supports-conan#s-p1-sr-i1


FOUR FOR YOU, GLEN COCO. AND NOTHING FOR JAY LENO, GOODBYE.



Also I had a good laugh earlier because people that saw this on ONTD didn't understand that it was a joke.

[WWW.SETH.COM]

NBC is really screwing the pooch on this thing. They forgot the whole "if it ain't broke don't fix it" credo. I didn't think that Leno's show was particularly awful. It was like his work on the tonight show: stay tuned through the monologue for the first good joke and then turn it off. At least now we might get some good hour-longs in NBC's 10:00 slot.

[Pube Truth]

this whole thing is ridic. no one liked leno's new show, and the sad part is that they're pushing it back because it's pulling viewers from affiliate's shows? Those affiliates' shows must be fucking terrible if people were watching leno instead. He's always sucked in my opinion. Also, I don't really like any of the late-night shows, but of all of them, Conan is clearly the best, and he keeps getting screwed so hard. :( Poor baby coco. Anyway, I hope he goes to Fox, because I bet they'd let him do funnier stuff anyway, they have less to lose.

[FAGGOT WATCHIN TRON]

I think the deal with the affiliate thing is that before, when Leno was on after the news, people would watch the news and then watch Leno. But now that he is on before, people are switching to different channels because they hate his show so much, and then NOT switching back to NBC for the news, so the local news programs are suffering. Which I think its hilarious his show sucks so hard people run from it and then don't switch back for the news.

I also hope Conan goes to Fox, which it is looking pretty much like he will at this point. He has a good relationship with them, apparently, and as much as Fox sometimes sucks as a network, they also occasionally are awesome. And its definitely true, they have less to lose, so they are more willing to take risks with their programming. That is the thing that has always made Fox great. I for one, am looking forward to the chance of the return of the Masturbating Bear.

[Pube Truth]

Whatever. No one should watch the local news. It's just a program designed to tell you the weather, surrounded by bits about how everything in the world is gonna kill you or your kids somehow. "Next up, how your baby's crib could kill it....after the weather, at 11" "Local High School students found to be involved in a heroin trafficking ring accused of murdering their principal, graffiti....and pre-marital sex! Details after the weather."

[FAGGOT WATCHIN TRON]

I couldn't agree more. I was just clarifying why NBC was fucking itself, as I found the reasoning confusing at first as well.

And I would watch Conan on whatever network he was on sooooooooooooo, go Team Conan indeed! <3