Really.There's still time to bid.
After all, that's still $29 million less than NBC is reportedly paying Conan to get rid of their late night baggage.
Showing posts with label tonight show. Show all posts
Showing posts with label tonight show. Show all posts
Saturday, January 16, 2010
Would You Pay $1 Million for Conan O'Brien's Suitcase?
The suitcase that outgoing Tonight Show host Conan O'Brien has put up for sale on eBay is currently (as of 5:55 pm Pacific Time, Saturday, January 16, 2010) at the bid price of $999,999.00.
Really.
There's still time to bid.
After all, that's still $29 million less than NBC is reportedly paying Conan to get rid of their late night baggage.
Really.There's still time to bid.
After all, that's still $29 million less than NBC is reportedly paying Conan to get rid of their late night baggage.
Monday, January 11, 2010
And the Number One Reason not to Feel Sorry for Conan O'Brien in the NBC Shuffle ...
Tonight Show host Conan O'Brien is getting the short end of the stick in the hullabaloo at NBC, which is rearranging its late-night programming to return Jay Leno to his roost at 11:35 pm (where he actually had an audience suited to that time slot) and push back its other programming by a half hour. O'Brien, if he stays, would start his show 30 minutes later than it now starts. But if he goes, he could receive a reported "eight-figure penalty" from NBC for changing his schedule, says USA Today.
This mess is all of NBC's own making, and I'm sure it has the other network bosses chortling as they drink their morning coffee laced with liquid gold and angels' tears. But really, out of a national population well over 300 million, relatively few people stay up and watch any of the late night TV hosts, so once again we're all getting overdosed by the media about a conflict that doesn't affect us and doesn't change much for anyone.
The Kansas City Star's Aaron Barnhart argues that Conan's right to be upset. Mostly I agree. What I don't agree with is that anyone outside of Conan and his close circle of friends, family, and staff who depend upon his happiness and paycheck should feel any sorrow for him.
He and his bank account will land on their feet. Here's a rule of thumb with which even non-Marxists like this blogger can agree: Never feel sorry for someone who earns more than $10 million just for losing his job.
This mess is all of NBC's own making, and I'm sure it has the other network bosses chortling as they drink their morning coffee laced with liquid gold and angels' tears. But really, out of a national population well over 300 million, relatively few people stay up and watch any of the late night TV hosts, so once again we're all getting overdosed by the media about a conflict that doesn't affect us and doesn't change much for anyone.
The Kansas City Star's Aaron Barnhart argues that Conan's right to be upset. Mostly I agree. What I don't agree with is that anyone outside of Conan and his close circle of friends, family, and staff who depend upon his happiness and paycheck should feel any sorrow for him.
He and his bank account will land on their feet. Here's a rule of thumb with which even non-Marxists like this blogger can agree: Never feel sorry for someone who earns more than $10 million just for losing his job.
Friday, January 8, 2010
NBC Tries to Fix a Self-Made Mess with Jay Leno/Conan Change #jayleno
Frankly, I never understood why NBC thought it needed to usher Jay Leno off The Tonight Show in the first place when they should have been locking him in for the next 10 years. No, I don't watch late night TV; but millions of people do, and they clearly watched Leno in droves.
But NBC wanted to replace him, for whatever brilliant network programmer reason, so they gave Conan O'Brien the Tonight Show slot (and Conan might be a wonderful person who nurses hurt kittens back to health and makes people laugh, but he's not Tonight Show material -- nor would David Letterman have been, had his early wishes been granted). And Leno got a new five-days-a-week 10:00 pm program.
Which tanked.
I'll admit that I thought Leno would have done better at that hour than he did, but the fact is that he didn't do well at all, despite NBC's claim that he is performing exactly where they thought he would and where they promised advertisers he would. The affiliates, however, were getting hammered because Leno was delivering terrible lead-ins to their 11:00 pm news; and no one was tuning into the end of their news to watch Conan.
So today it looks like Leno will get a 30-minute program at 11:35, and Conan will follow with a full hour. Oh, and NBC suddenly has to come up with five hours of quality 10 programming on short notice (so you know the quality will be great!).
They made the mess, they can clean it up.
UPDATE: Read reactions from Aaron Barnhart -- the original Late Night TV guru.
But NBC wanted to replace him, for whatever brilliant network programmer reason, so they gave Conan O'Brien the Tonight Show slot (and Conan might be a wonderful person who nurses hurt kittens back to health and makes people laugh, but he's not Tonight Show material -- nor would David Letterman have been, had his early wishes been granted). And Leno got a new five-days-a-week 10:00 pm program.
Which tanked.
I'll admit that I thought Leno would have done better at that hour than he did, but the fact is that he didn't do well at all, despite NBC's claim that he is performing exactly where they thought he would and where they promised advertisers he would. The affiliates, however, were getting hammered because Leno was delivering terrible lead-ins to their 11:00 pm news; and no one was tuning into the end of their news to watch Conan.
So today it looks like Leno will get a 30-minute program at 11:35, and Conan will follow with a full hour. Oh, and NBC suddenly has to come up with five hours of quality 10 programming on short notice (so you know the quality will be great!).
They made the mess, they can clean it up.
UPDATE: Read reactions from Aaron Barnhart -- the original Late Night TV guru.
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