I will make this short and sweet.
NBC is a bag full of morons.
Conan’s monologue from Wednesday said all that needed to be said, you are making the biggest mistake siding with Jay Leno. My assumption is that you will buy out Conan’s contract for the pre-disclosed rate of $30 million bucks and Conan will release a statement what he is taking time off from tv then will reassess his priorities. While he is relaxing with his thoughts in Cabo his agent will be working out a deal with ABC or FOX to put his head-to-head with Jay and you will see the ratings war begin like never before.
Sources are popping up this AM that Conan will host out the Tonight Show through next Friday then it is “Sayonara NBC.” NBC executives will try to stop him from going to a new network, but seeing as the took his job and broke contract he should have no problem landing at 11:35 and be a reminding mistake for the next decade or so until his show becomes the new standard in Late Night and is handed down to his protege.
Conan said it best, “kids you can do anything you want to do as long as Jay Leno doesn’t want to do it too.”
January 17th, 2010 at 9:12 am
Don’t expect Conan to get a big buyout. He is the one trying to break the contract not NBC. His contract says he will host the Tonight Show and NBC is not trying to take that from him they are just trying to move it to 12:05.
Either way what NBC is doing is shady and Conan will probably end up on FOX in the fall.
January 17th, 2010 at 10:25 am
I think his contract requires it to stay at 11:35, not sure on that, which would kick in the 30 million buyout.
January 18th, 2010 at 8:20 pm
Fava Beans
January 18th, 2010 at 8:21 pm
lol that’s it? fava beans? you have nothing more to add to the conversation?
by the way, Hannibal has two N’s