Conan's Royal Screw Up

**cyfanhood** · 01-13-2010, 10:10 AM

Conan's Royal Screw Up | TMZ.com

**Stewo** · 01-13-2010, 10:20 AM

Good idea NBC. Make Conan look like the bad guy. That'll be best in the end.

Before anyone says anything, I understand that he's under contract(if true) and he has to abide by it, but they could be respectful of Conan's wishes and let him be released without issue.

**CycoCyclone** · 01-13-2010, 10:22 AM

I gotta wonder what Letterman's ratings are doing because of this?

**GeronimusClone** · 01-13-2010, 10:36 AM

"The Tonight Show" name in itself would say that the show would be aired that night, not the next day. That and the show being the same timeslot for 60 years should be defense enough.

**mark** · 01-13-2010, 10:39 AM

That is too funny. I cannot believe he would not negotiate a specific time and 'assume' a guarantee based on history. He is screwed and the only person to blame is himself.

Maybe it is his bad hair after all!

**RyCy04** · 01-13-2010, 10:41 AM

No matter what loop holes NBC finds in the contract, they still end up looking like the dick in this situation.

**flynnhicks03** · 01-13-2010, 10:42 AM

Originally Posted by cyfanhood

Conan's Royal Screw Up | TMZ.com

Ultimately, it won't matter. Conan will come out of this looking good, and NBC will have egg on their face. There's no way to keep Leno happy and not look like idiots.

**Cyclonepride** · 01-13-2010, 10:42 AM

Say what you want (and I don't particularly care for Conan, or Leno for that matter), but NBC will come out of this looking like idiots, and THEY will only have themselves to blame for that.

**Clone9** · 01-13-2010, 10:48 AM

NBC looks terrible in this whole thing. Even if Conan gets his show moved/cancelled/whatever, NBC screwed this thing up.

Has anyone watched the last two night? Conan ripping on NBC has been absolutely hilarious.....he has been relentless.

**jbhtexas** · 01-13-2010, 10:53 AM

Originally Posted by GeronimusClone

"The Tonight Show" name in itself would say that the show would be aired that night, not the next day. That and the show being the same timeslot for 60 years should be defense enough.

Along those lines...

I can't read the original link, because it is blocked here, so this might be mentioned there. But the NBC show that originally followed The Tonight Show was The Tomorrow Show (1973-1982) with Tom Snyder...

**Cyclones_R_GR8** · 01-13-2010, 11:06 AM

Originally Posted by GeronimusClone

"The Tonight Show" name in itself would say that the show would be aired that night, not the next day. That and the show being the same timeslot for 60 years should be defense enough.

I never watch these shows but this is true. The Tonight Show has always been in that particular time slot. Why would anyone even think that they would move it?

**marothisu** · 01-13-2010, 11:08 AM

LOL

" there is an "implied" guarantee the show would begin at 11:35."

Okay Conan....maybe you should have made sure it was in your contract.

**Clone96** · 01-13-2010, 12:34 PM

I'm pretty sure Conan's lashing out (which has been brilliant) is mostly because he's stuck. "The Tonight Show" does not equal "11:35 p.m. talk show in the eastern time zone" He should have had that written into the contract.

I don't know if anybody else has read "The Late Shift" by Bill Carter, but NBC did something similar with Letterman before he left for CBS, offering him "The Tonight Show", but it had all sorts of conditions like it didn't take place for a year & half, NBC could back out if they wanted to. One of Dave's producers summed it up: They were trying to keep Dave at Late Night, give Leno time to make his Tonight Show work, and if Letterman took it, he would denounced in the press as throwing an old friend in front of a train. Dave called Johnny Carson and Johnny told him if he had been treated like that, he would walk. And walk Dave did

**Wesley** · 01-13-2010, 12:36 PM

Originally Posted by GeronimusClone

"The Tonight Show" name in itself would say that the show would be aired that night, not the next day. That and the show being the same timeslot for 60 years should be defense enough.

That can be fixed. They could cut Jay to 25 minutes and start Conan at 11:55 EST.

**Wesley** · 01-13-2010, 12:38 PM

Originally Posted by Clone9

NBC looks terrible in this whole thing. Even if Conan gets his show moved/cancelled/whatever, NBC screwed this thing up.

Has anyone watched the last two night? Conan ripping on NBC has been absolutely hilarious.....he has been relentless.

They were going to lose $200M from ads if something is not changed. It is a business decision. Conan said they could run split screen.