In slightly strange news...
Although I was on a blogging hiatus over the last few months I was constantly talking about the drama between Conan O'Brien and his employer of nearly 20 years NBC.
The television station totally screwed one of their best assets and let him go! Conan was smart though, and it cost the peacock dearly. He's reportedly walking away with over $30 MILLION and his staff is splitting something around $15 million. He's also said he would share some of his $30m with staff.
Conan was the new host of the historic Tonight Show for only SEVEN MONTHS! His contract was for three years, but never specified when the show would air... so when NBC canceled The Jay Leno Show (the former host of Tonight) they were planning on pushing the Tonight Show to tomorrow... at 12:05am and giving Jay a half hour show starting at 11:35, the time slot the Tonight Show has had for 60+ years.
Conan being the awesome guy that he is said he didn't want to ruin tradition and didn't want to be the guy that messed with the show, so he said he wouldn't move to 12:05 and NBC said their goodbyes.
LAME.
So...
Now that things are officially over with Conan and NBC (the Tonight Show with Conan is still airing until March first, but only in re-runs. Jay takes the show back on March 1st - I won't be watching) everyone thought they'd be going their separate ways.
WRONG!
In an awkward move NBC has picked up pilot by Conan's production company Conaco. It's a legal show bla, bla bla...
How awkward is that!? Looks like Conan's going to be hanging out with NBC in a different light for a bit longer.
I just hope that this doesn't mess up his options of going to another network with his talk show skills!!
2 comments:
It's not Conan working with NBC, it's his production company. Conan wouldn't have had anything personally to do with the meetings that resulted in that sale.
Right, but Conan requested to stay with NBC through pilot and development season to try to push his ideas for the fall line-up.
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