NBC can suck it. No homo.

[Abraham Smashington]

Fuck you.

[nerdious dorkus]

What's going on? It's blocked.

[Abraham Smashington]

Variety says this morning that Jay Leno has accepted an offer to return to 11:30 for a 30 minute show, called ‘the Jay Leno Show’, focusing mainly on a monologue and one guest, and that the show will begin after the Winter Olympics in about 6 weeks.
Deadline Hollywood adds that NBC does have the right to be this god dam dumb if they choose.

NBC has the contractual right to start The Tonight Show as late as 12:05 AM, which it sometimes does for sports or news. So if NBC gives Jay Leno back the 11:35 PM slot, and calls it The Jay Leno Show, and keeps Conan on Tonight, the network incurs no penalties.

If Conan can live with this bullshit, he will move to midnight, but otherwise ‘the Tonight Show’ will be unchanged.
And Broadcasting and Cable reported last night that NBC can simply take Conan off the air completely and replace him with Leno if they want, they just have to keep paying him.

Bunch of bs.

[Matt]

they have to do something. Too bad Conan is going to have to take it in the shorts.

[Abraham Smashington]

It's not Conan's fault. He has no lead in since Leno sucks. Also he's had some weak guest spots.

[Ari]

Leno is like an STD:

At first, it was kinda funny. We laughed at the STD because we didn't have it. Then the STD spread like wildfire. Soon, like millions of others, we had the STD too. And we could not get rid of it. Laughing became weeping, weeping became quiet sorrow, sorrow became suicide. But even in death, the STD would not die.

[nerdious dorkus]

I don't get it. They're saying that the news suffer because of Leno's timeslot. But Conan's show is perfect where it is now, like Rob said, with no lead into it other than the news, so let's take that away from him? Why not make the news at 10 PM, have a 30 minute show for Leno, and then lead into an hour with Conan. I like Leno, but he's not doing new schticks. Conan at least tries new shit.

[Abraham Smashington]

Conan needs to be on later. He's still playing it really safe and his audiences fucking suck still. It's sad when Fallon is actually funnier now.

[Matt]

I'll be totally honest: I don't watch ANY late night TV, so I don't have any kind of vested interest in ANY of this shit. That being said, I don't want Conan to fail. Leno had his time in the sun and he needs to move on.

[Ed Hocken]

It's Late Shift Redux.

Speaking of which, that was a damn good book and equally damn good tv movie.

[Matt]

yeah, that movie was great.

[Ed Hocken]

Kathy Bates was the ultimate cunt in that movie. Shit, I forgot name of the person she played.

[PHEDG]

Unfortunately I'm not helping. Because I don't have a dvr I watch Letterman first run on tv, then Conan the next day on hulu.

[Ed Hocken]

I wonder what would have happened had Letterman gotten The Tonight Show?

Still amazing, that Carson Daly has a show. Je-sus.

[Abraham Smashington]

I'm still diggin on Fallon lately. He is actually doing pretty well.