On Mon, Apr 12, 2010 at 10:01 AM, Mark J. <[email protected]> wrote:
> > > http://blogs.ajc.com/radio-tv-talk/2010/04/12/conan-obrien-goes-to-tbs-not-fox/?cxntlid=thbz_hm > > The interesting thing is that George Lopez supposedly is behind Conan > going to TBS. > This is more than the interesting thing, it is the required thing, given Conan's history at NBC. I slightly disagree with Kevin - I don't think this is in the worst half of possible moves for Conan. Fox was always going to be problematic for him - Fox is a more popular network than NBC, but a late night CoCo show was never going to do nearly as well as Conan's Tonight did on NBC, much less Leno's Tonight. He would be trying to sell a boutique show on a mainstream platform, and would probably always be seen as a lose (especially by Leno, who can't help pushing his "whoever gets the most viewers is best, let the market decide" approach to comedy). I have been hoping for a premium cable outlet for Conan, but basic cable might work too. I would like to see what TBS ratings are like at the 11:00 hour vs Comedy Central's (I see that Lopez was getting about 1M viewers at 11:00). Stewart and Colbert have shown that you can be a pop culture force from the basic cable platform. I am sure the non-Conan TBS line-up is stronger than the non Stewart/Colbert Comedy Central line-up. It would be odd, but now not impossible, if the one who really ended up getting screwed in the butt by Leno and NBC was Jon Stewart. Indeed, that could set in motion a sequence that pays off in three years with Stewart taking over from Dave. "In three months I've gone from network television to Twitter to performing live in theaters, and now I'm headed to basic cable," O'Brien said in a news release. "My plan is working perfectly." -- TV or Not TV .... The Smartest (TV) People! You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TV or Not TV" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/tvornottv?hl=en To unsubscribe, reply using "remove me" as the subject.
