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Last winter, NBC booted Conan O’Brien out of its late-night NBC spot. O’Brien landed at the basic-cable channel TBS, and his new talk show debuts there tonight at 11pm Eastern. Guess who else is on at 11pm Eastern on basic cable?
Jay Leno may not understand why people love libraries, and why they’re so vital, but some people do: From The New York Times: A press representative for the New York Public Library said that the library approached Improv Everywhere about using its austere environs for the video stunt. The library said it hopes to use … more…
We haven’t heard much from Conan O’Brien since NBC unceremoniously booted him from The Tonight Show after Jay Leno’s experiment with primetime chat flopped. But now, with the networks in the final throes of lining up next fall’s programming schedules, he’s back in the spotlight, if only a small one. The USA Today blog Technology … more…
Lots of spoilers! assumes you’ve seen the episode!
Every week my browser gets cluttered up with tabs for stuff that I stumble across and figure I might be able to use as a Question of the Day or a WTF Thought for the Day or grist for some other post. And inevitably, I end the week with most of that material unused. But … more…
Every week my browser gets cluttered up with tabs for stuff that I stumble across and figure I might be able to use as a Question of the Day or a WTF Thought for the Day or grist for some other post. And inevitably, I end the week with most of that material unused. But … more…
Item: NBC will pay Conan O’Brien a severance of $40 million— no, wait, maybe it’s $45 million. Well, some of the dough will go to O’Brien’s laid-off staffers, but still: that’s a ton of money to not work. Item: NBC is going to lose hundreds of millions of dollars broadcasting the Winter Olympics next month. … more…
Anyone could have said that moving Jay Leno, America’s class clown, to prime time from late night was a bad idea — in fact, lots of us did say it. And NBC finally caught on: PASADENA, Calif. – NBC said Sunday it decided to pull the plug on the Jay Leno experiment when some affiliate … more…
