It's finally official, Conan O'Brien is walking out the door and taking $33 million with him. You may ask what was the hold up in the whole divorce from NBC? Conan, being the caring boss he is made sure that all 200 crew members were being taking care of as well. An additional $12 million, will be dispersed about the crew for severance pay. Ratings for the "Tonight Show" have been diving ever sense Jay Leno left the show for his own prime time trial. The nightly ratings which hit a high of 4.2 million with Leno hosting dropped to a low 2.5 million while O'Brien has been hosting. The original plan from NBC was to move O'Brien back 12:05 hr followed by "Late Night with Jimmy Fallon", while Leno would have bumped back to his original time slot at 11:35. O'Brien said that shifting "Tonight" would "seriously damage what I consider to be the greatest franchise in the history of broadcasting,"and he declared his disappointment that NBC had given him less than a year to establish himself as a host at 11:35 PM slot. O'Brien is free to join another network as soon as September, but in the mean time he has setup a poll on the "Tonight Shows" website asking what he should do until then. Various idea's include starring in a porno titled "Conan the Bangbarian", taking his act to Jewish Life TV, starring as an IRA terrorist on the show "Sons of Anarchy",appear on "Dancing with the Star's next season, and being a DJ on Y-94 out of Fargo, North Dakota. Current poll readings have the Y-94 job as number 1 followed by Conan the Bangbarian.
An interesting note to point out, Will Ferrell will be the final guest on the O'Brien hosted "Tonight Show". Ferrell was also the first guest for the "Tonight Show" when O'Brien started hosting. Tom Hanks is also scheduled to appear on the finale O'Brien "Tonight Show". It is yet unsure if "The Jay Leno Show" will be moved over to the time slot or the "Tonight Show" staying. NBC will begin airing the Jay Leno hosted show starting March 1, 2010. Re runs of Conan O'Brien "Tonight Show" will run starting Monday, January 25th until Thursday February 11th. The Winter Olympics, which are being hosted by Vancouver this year is slated to take most air time for NBC from Feb. 12th through the 28th.
Thursday, January 21, 2010
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