I'm a few days behind, but outlets were reporting that the Basic Cable Band was playing its last episode of Conan tonight, so I tuned in mid-way. Jimmy Vivino and the band are/were tonight's musical guest, and former Tonight Show/Conan writer/performer Deon Cole was a (the?) guest. Before they played, Conan announced that the band will not be part of the 30 minute version of the show. While this makes economic sense, and is consistent with the previous announcement that there wouldn't be musical guests, I hadn't heard anything about this before tonight. Nor that tonight was the last hour-long late night edition of Conan.
I didn't catch this segment during the broadcast (link below), but the show will keep with the already announced start date of January for the new format. In the meantime, there will be another Conan Without Borders episode (Japan), an 18-city tour, a podcast (not Serious Jibber-Jabber), the launch of the online archive, and other projects. http://teamcoco.com/video/conan-highlight-catch-conan-s-new-podcast-live-tour-more With TBS baseball playoffs mucking up the schedule starting now, I can sort of see why stop the hour long now. But three months seems like a long time to be away. I know back in 2010 the online stuff was an important way to keep O'Brien in the spotlight, but the space is a lot more crowded now and there won't be as much excitement as there was in the aftermath of Late Night Wars II All that said, the archive sounds promising, and almost Carsonian. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TVorNotTV" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
