NBC signed Jay Leno to "The Tonight Show" this afternoon

[Missy Vixen]

It's up on tmz.com, which always seems to get the entertainment news before anyone else.

I'm a Conan fan. I hope he can escape the non-compete, and go somewhere else I can continue watching his show.

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[Eyerish]

1. Conan has gotten royally shafted...

I hope NBC doesn't continue to screw him over and let him leave so he can move to another network. I hope Conan gets to move back to NYC too. The audience was better in NY.

[Curtland1015]

2. That is royal BS, and I hope Jay crashes and burns.

NBC treated Conan terribly.

[tigereye]

3. the whole thing is so stupid...

[crispini]

4. NBC can bite my pasty white ass.

Will definitely watch Conan when he goes elsewhere.

[slay]

5. Bite me Jay and NBC - I'm with COCO!

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[SpartanDem]

6. Leno can go to hell

[JTG of the PRB]

7. Apparently (and I have to cite the Internet on this one) if Leno got "The Tonight Show" back...

...then Conan O'Brien would immediately be free of his contract and walk away with a LOT of money. Like, many millions of dollars.



I have been, and always shall be, a big fan of Conan, and I hope he can find a home where they give him more than 7 months to get his show off the ground. Go Conan!

[pokerfan]

9. NBC's position is that Conan is refusing to work

and therefore they are free to find a new host for the Tonight Show. They believe that they could air The Tonight Show at 3AM and still meet the letter of the contract.

Fucking weasels.

[JTG of the PRB]

10. And yet I don't get the feeling that Conan would not do his show.

He would tough it out until there was a resolution because he's a professional through and through. If NBC wants Jay Leno so badly, then I guess they can have him... And though it won't make much of a difference, I don't think my TV will ever again need to be tuned to NBC.

Fucking weasels indeed!

[pokerfan]

11. He's said that he won't host the show at midnight

Conan's position is that NBC is in breach: By moving the show out of its 11:34 slot, it's no longer the Tonight Show.

My personal preference would be for things go back to where they were seven months ago. I could go back to watching Letterman (or Colbert) at 11:30 and Conan at 12:30 if I'm up that late. There's a lot more freedom to do edgy humor at 12:30. 11:30 is just kind of blah. But then again, nobody asked me what I wanted.

[Inchworm]

8. I need a flow chart of late night television

Would be interesting to see all the swaps, changes, and shaftings.

My favorite and most under-talked about is Craig Ferguson. He is on constant shaft. :P

:hi:

[FVZA_Colonel]

12. Zucker couldn't kill this network faster if he was deliberatly trying to.

Hell, maybe he is.

[pokerfan]

14. Zucker's four point strategery

1. First he killed comedy, losing the NBC franchise of Thursday night "Must See TV," where Seinfeld, Friends and Will & Grace once hilariously reigned;

2. then he killed drama, failing to develop successors to the formidable ER, West Wing, and Law & Order;

3. then he killed the 10 o'clock hour by putting Jay Leno on at a time when people expect to be told a story;

4. and then he killed late night by putting on a quirky redhead who did not have the bland mass-market appeal of Leno and who couldn't compete with the peerless late-night comedian NBC had stupidly lost 16 years ago, David Letterman.

http://www.dallasnews.com/sharedcontent/dws/dn/opinion/viewpoints/stories/DN-dowd_14edi.State.Edition1.2735398.html

[CrownPrinceBandar]

13. I stand with Conan!................