Conan O'Brien - Shows, Projects, and News
04-13-10, 01:00 AM
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You'd watch or not watch Conan based on the numbers displayed on your cable box? That's just silly. I'd watch Burn Notice even if it were on Oxygen. The yogurt product placement is already there!
04-13-10, 01:12 AM
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Now that you mention it, I wonder if they didn't position the show to go either way from the beginning. Male viewership is down? "Michael's a nice boy who cares for his widowed mom and helps people, aided by the more-than-capable Fiona." Male viewership is a go? "Michael and Sam are the heirs of Magnum, P.I. and The A-Team, but with superhot Fiona." Those clever bastards!
04-13-10, 02:03 AM
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I was a huge Conan fan and was fully prepared to support his new show, but now I see he's going to TBS. Leno just gained another follower after this disastrous blunder by Conan.
04-13-10, 02:31 AM
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04-13-10, 02:40 AM
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04-13-10, 04:11 AM
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04-13-10, 06:37 AM
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Whether I press "05" for NBC or "47" for TBS on my cable remote... I'm still pressing two buttons to watch Conan. Wow, such a difference (not).
04-13-10, 07:08 AM
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I'm shocked that Conan would go back to TV at all, to be honest. Cable is a dying industry. It'll be around for years to come, no doubt about that, but eventually we'll all be watching video over the internet.
I guess he wanted the money. Can't blame him.
I guess he wanted the money. Can't blame him.
04-13-10, 07:15 AM
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04-13-10, 07:22 AM
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04-13-10, 07:22 AM
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I think it came down to two factors on O'Brien choosing TBS for his new 2300 hours ET show:
1) He doesn't force the Fox network to do the very expensive process of clearing time at 11:00 pm locally for the show for every Fox affiliate. People forget that in the spring of 1993, even with David Letterman's name recognition it took a LOT of convincing (and some arm-twisting!) by CBS to get most of its affiliates to carry The Late Show with David Letterman by the time that show premiered.
2) TBS is available in both standard definiition and high definition forms on satellite TV and most cable systems across the USA, which means most anyone with a cable subscription can see the show anyway.
1) He doesn't force the Fox network to do the very expensive process of clearing time at 11:00 pm locally for the show for every Fox affiliate. People forget that in the spring of 1993, even with David Letterman's name recognition it took a LOT of convincing (and some arm-twisting!) by CBS to get most of its affiliates to carry The Late Show with David Letterman by the time that show premiered.
2) TBS is available in both standard definiition and high definition forms on satellite TV and most cable systems across the USA, which means most anyone with a cable subscription can see the show anyway.
04-13-10, 07:47 AM
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Maybe so, I'm not even interested enough to read about it, perhaps it's true.
The point is though, that even if Conan did bump him, or even got the network to fire him, you wouldn't hear a thing about it.
Lopez?
The point is though, that even if Conan did bump him, or even got the network to fire him, you wouldn't hear a thing about it.
Lopez?
04-13-10, 08:38 AM
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04-13-10, 08:38 AM
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It's not like the two are mutually exclusive. Conan's show streamed on Hulu when he was on NBC. Lopez Tonight is available on the TBS site, albeit broken up into clips. So Conan, being on TBS, will be viewable on the internet as well, not to mention possibly VOD from various cable companies.
04-13-10, 09:02 AM
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So? I watch Saved by the Bell before work every morning! Unless I'm late then it's Fresh Prince.
04-13-10, 09:34 AM
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It's not like the two are mutually exclusive. Conan's show streamed on Hulu when he was on NBC. Lopez Tonight is available on the TBS site, albeit broken up into clips. So Conan, being on TBS, will be viewable on the internet as well, not to mention possibly VOD from various cable companies.
04-13-10, 09:38 AM
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http://articles.latimes.com/2010/apr...an13-2010apr13
As part of his deal with Time Warner's Turner Broadcasting to host a late-night show on TBS, O'Brien will have ownership of the show. That will give him the potential to make a lot more money then if he were just a hired hand hosting a show owned by a network. O'Brien's deal is for five years.
04-13-10, 09:45 AM
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People said the same thing about AMC before they started airing Mad Men and Breaking Bad. I never watched AMC before those shows. Now, I watch AMC, but only for those shows. If there's a show I want to watch, I'll watch it. It doesn't matter to me what channel it's on, as long as it's a channel I get.
04-13-10, 10:14 AM
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Looks like somebody tried to make a funny and was quickly shot down so had to go with hypothetical humor. Oh, and then threw in a mention of not caring even though he bothered to post in the thread.
These scenarios always make me chuckle.
04-13-10, 10:20 AM
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He's being allowed to own this show and material, unlike just "working" for a show already owned by a network. So he can stand to make more money than had he stayed on The Tonight Show.