RE: [TV orNotTV] Screwing Conan Cheaper than Screwing Leno

2010-01-20 Thread Karla Robinson
What idiot at NBC greenlighted a contract guaranteeing Leno $150 million if his prime-time experiment failed? That sounds..fishy. On a related note, the guest list for Conan's last week has been finalized: http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20100120/en_nm/us_conan From: tvornottv

[TV orNotTV] Bill Carter will be on Joy Behar's show tonight (Wed)

2010-01-20 Thread Maybe
Bill Carter will be on Joy Behar's show tonight. From her Tweet: JoyVBehar: Bill Carter, NY Times tv reporter and author of The Late Shift, will be on my show tonight to discuss the latest in this late night drama. Her show is on HLN at, I don't know what time on the east but at 6 9 in the west.

[TV orNotTV] Re: Bam sets State-of date

2010-01-20 Thread Mark J.
On Jan 19, 9:38 pm, Bob in Jersey bob.in.jer...@juno.com wrote: Next Wednesday (27), 9 east. Fox moves Idol up to 8. Futon: Human Target gets moved UP a day to Tuesday at 8...Ramsay's Nightmares pushed back a week. (Leno benched.)

[TV orNotTV] Marc Maron's WTF? podcast a Comedy Central series...

2010-01-20 Thread Kevin M.
The pilot is being shot in LA a week from tomorrow (Thursday at 7pm). The series will feature a female co-host, a comic named Chelsea Peretti. I love the podcast and wish I could be there for the taping. For tickets: 323/960-5519 -- Kevin M. (RPCV) -- TV or Not TV The Smartest (TV)

Re: [TV orNotTV] Screwing Conan Cheaper than Screwing Leno

2010-01-20 Thread Kevin M.
finalized: http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20100120/en_nm/us_conan I have a few friends with tickets for Thursday's taping of the Tonight Show. They were wondering what time they should line up to guarantee a seat in the audience. I told them if this turns out to be Conan's last week, the best time to line

Re: [TV orNotTV] Screwing Conan Cheaper than Screwing Leno

2010-01-20 Thread David Bruggeman
...@zoominternet.net wrote: What idiot at NBC greenlighted a contract guaranteeing Leno $150 million if his prime-time experiment failed? That sounds….fishy. On a related note, the guest list for Conan’s last week has been finalized: http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20100120/en_nm/us_conan I have

[TV orNotTV] Re: Screwing Conan Cheaper than Screwing Leno

2010-01-20 Thread M-D November
Meanwhile, Finke has the ratings from last night - Conan Letterman with an equal share of the audience (Letterman technically wins by 100K viewers), but Conan demolishes Letterman in the demo. http://www.deadline.com/hollywood/about-last-night/ A demo which, it should be added, will likely

[TV orNotTV] OT: Need help identifying art piece

2010-01-20 Thread Jay Lewis
I come to you, fellow couch potatoes, with a question. Many months ago, my g/f and I saw this piece of art and she gushed over it. She said she loved it and that her daughter would think it was cool too. At $300, however, I was not about to buy it for her. The place has long gone out of

[TV orNotTV] Re: Bill Carter will be on Joy Behar's show tonight (Wed)

2010-01-20 Thread M-D November
Do you suppose he'll formally announce the Tarantino-helmed, Coco- revenge-fueled Late Shift sequel? On Jan 20, 3:56 pm, Maybe maybeso...@aol.com wrote: Bill Carter will be on Joy Behar's show tonight. From her Tweet: JoyVBehar: Bill Carter, NY Times tv reporter and author of The Late Shift,

Re: [TV orNotTV] Leno tells his side of the story Monday night

2010-01-20 Thread Joe Hass
Letterman responded Tuesday night with yet another blistering attack at Leno. Remember how I asked way back when if Leno had run over Dave's dog? Yeah, that probably would've been better. Dave: Every day I wake up and I say, I'm gonna keep my mouth shut about this NBC/Tonight Show thing because,

[TV orNotTV] Re: Leno tells his side of the story Monday night

2010-01-20 Thread Diner
On Jan 20, 8:01 pm, Joe Hass hassgoc...@gmail.com wrote: Dave: That's right. They wanted to avoid another transitional brouhaha, if I can invoke a little French. So last night Jay gave his state of the network speech. (Laughter applause) And I saw...and he said we should not blame Conan for

Re: [TV orNotTV] Leno tells his side of the story Monday night

2010-01-20 Thread David Bruggeman
There's another short video clip up from (what I'm guessing) is tonight's show. They've been at least as brutal as the desk chats. http://www.cbs.com/late_night/late_show/video/?pid=AfH_z72erqwVYPmC1tdqDJk0MZ8_zMGD David From: Joe Hass hassgoc...@gmail.com

Re: [TV orNotTV] Even the Chinese agree...

2010-01-20 Thread Ed Dravecky
Kevin M. drunkbastar...@gmail.com wrote: Bob in Jersey bob.in.jer...@juno.com wrote: ...Zucker's an @$$hole. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lJ9m1an-pQ8 Love it. Best summary of events I've ever seen. Conan played the first half of the Chinese-language version on Tuesday's show and it's

Re: [TV orNotTV] Leno tells his side of the story Monday night

2010-01-20 Thread PGage
On Mon, Jan 18, 2010 at 7:54 PM, Kevin M. drunkbastar...@gmail.com wrote: Before I forget, someone mentioned how averse Aaron Barnhart now seems to be towards NBC and Leno, but, at the time, he was a huge fan of the idea, offering reasons that didn't make sense to me then and still don't