well that didn't take long. after being booted from his late night post at nbc in favor of bringing back former host jay leno from the oblivion of primetime, former tonight show host conan o'brien has landed himself a new nightly gig. the red haired funny man will be bringing his comedy stylings to tbs come fall. conan's show will premiere sometime in november and run four nights a week (monday through thursday) alongside current tbs late night-er george lopez. lopez's show will get pushed back to the 12/11c time-slot to make room for conan at 11/10c. early reports had conan taking his schtick to fox, but i never bought it. fox never seemed all that interested in getting coco - he didn't work on nbc so why would he work on a different network without an established late night schedule? fox affiliates make tons of money of syndicated shows like friends and sex and the city in the time-slot he would have taken, too, so it would have been a lose-lose for the network. i would say conan's move to basic cable is a downgrade for him, but the right move. cable late night series are growing in popularity and are where comedy is going. it will be interesting how conan does; i predict tbs' biggest ratings ever for his premiere, but for him to taper off around 900,000 viewers a night (those are the type of ratings chelsea lately gets). i guess we'll just have to wait and see.
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that picture freaks me out.
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