On Sun, Jan 10, 2010 at 7:58 PM, Tom Wolper <[email protected]> wrote:
> NBC has to keep Conan happy at the end of their process. He still has > a monologue and if he gets pissed off and stays that way, he can blow > off steam by blasting NBC on the air. Or Conan becomes detached from > the show and phones it in, letting everybody know he's unhappy with > his deal but he's willing to do the minimum to meet his contract > terms. > But what can NBC do to make Conan happy at this point? They have already screwed him on the essential. They told him they wanted him to be NBC's main Late Night guy, then they took it about 33% back by putting Leno on at 10:00, and now they have taken it about 99% back by putting Leno on at 11:35. All he has left is being host of the Tonight Show, but this will no longer be NBC's flagship late night program. This is basically the same screwing NBC administered to Dave, only worse, since they had only implied, not publicly and in writing promised, to make him the host of their flagship. A 12:00 show after Leno is different in almost no way from doing the 12:35 show he was doing at Late Night - in fact it is arguably worse. Last week Leno and Conan told exactly the same joke on the same night (about it being so cold in China the kids could not walk to work in the snow). I happened to hear both because I wanted to see what Leno had to say about the bru ha ha, but at least it was separated by 90 minutes. What happens when it is separated by only 30 minutes? And Leno and Conan are both in Los Angeles? I am going to guess that one thing Conan might ask for is to return to New York. He really does not seem to like it out here, and he might say if he has to take it up the butt the least they can do is let him get a decent slice of pizza. I guess that would push Fallon to LA, and into that Universal Studio (which I think is too big for Conan anyway).
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