Question by Stuff: What do you guys think about Conan O’ Brien leaving NBC and Jay Leno hosting the tonight show again?
Its official, Conan O’Brien is leaving NBC and Jay Leno will once again be the tonight show host
Here is the story from THR-The hollywood reporter:Conan O’Brien’s “Tonight Show” dream is over.
After only seven months hosting NBC’s iconic late-night show, O’Brien is leaving NBC.
The teams of representatives for NBC and O’Brien on Friday night were still finalizing a financial settlement that would end the network and the late-night host’s 21-year relationship.
Details about a settlement are still fuzzy, but sources estimated that the payoff to O’Brien could reach $ 40 million.
The deal looks on track to close over the weekend.
One of the sticking issues has been on whether O’Brien’s contract guarantees him the 11:35 p.m. time slot, with sources close to the host insisting that it does, and sources at the network being adamant that it doesn’t. Once source portrayed the issue as being a matter of NBC’s intent rather than the contract spelling out the exact time: Did promising O’Brien “The Tonight Show” inherently indicate an 11:35 p.m. slot?
Either way, a quick settlement prevents NBC from having to go to court over “The Tonight Show,” a unacceptable option to the network which could have publicly dragged out its struggle with O’Brien for months or even years.
After a week of tense negotiations, exacerbated by O’Brien’s Tuesday open letter defying NBC’s plan to move his ”Tonight Show” to 12:05 a.m. to make room for a Jay Leno-hosted half-hour show at 11:35 p.m. as well as by NBC’s sports chief Dick Ebersol’s harsh words for O’Brien, the two sides moved closer to an agreement at the end of the week.
Key people in the negotiations have included NBC Uni Entertainment chairman Jeff Gaspin and NBC Entertainment chairman Marc Graboff, O’Brien’s longtime reps, WME’s Rick Rosen and manager Gavin Polone as well as Universal Studios’ president Ron Meyer, who was brought in earlier this week to break the impasse.
The news is the latest twist in a dramatic series of events that led to an overhaul of a major chunk of NBC’s schedule in the middle of the broadcast season following an outcry by the network’s affiliate stations whose late newscasts were hit hard by the anemic ratings for “The Jay Leno Show” at 10 p.m.
O’Brien is expected to continue hosting “Tonight” through the end of next week, when the show was previously scheduled to go dark for a week.
On the Friday “Tonight,” O’Brien treated his imminent departure as a fait accompli, spending the opening half-hour taking jabs at NBC (“In the press this week, NBC has been calling me every name in the book. In fact, they think I’m such an idiot they now want me to run the network”), auctioning off “Tonight” memorabilia as well as the show itself, as well as running a “Best of” retrospective of his short run on the show.
In light of O’Brien’s departure, Jay Leno, who will wrap the primetime “Leno Show” Feb.12, would resume command of “Tonight Show,” the late-night post he previously held for 17 years, March 1.
That’s when NBC also will roll out its revised midseason schedule that features scripted dramas, reality and newsmagazines 10 p.m.
With his exit almost finalized, the big question is where O’Brien will land, and when will his presumed next show launch. Fox, which has expressed interest in launching a weeknight late-night franchise fronted by O’Brien, is the most obvious option.
However, the network’s toppers have made it clear they are not in any rush to jump in as a decision to do so would involve a financial hit to the affiliates, the same problem that ultimately led to the late-night turmoil at NBC.
Shedding O’Brien and putting Leno back in charge of “Tonight” will give NBC the opportunity to get its schedule back on track, but at a very high cost. The network’s pilot development last year was derailed with the vanishing of its 10 p.m. dramas.
The network also spent millions on new sets and the launch of both “Tonight” and “Jay Leno” and then had to face ratings down spiral both at 10 p.m. and 11:35 p.m., which led to revenue loss.
(Leno is expected, at least for the time being,” to stay put in the studio that housed his primetime show.)
Additionally, the NBC and “Tonight Show” brands have arguably been tarnished, with the network having been painted as clumsy at best and villainous at worst in its handling of the issue
Also taking a hit is the reputation of Leno, who has been roundly criticized for his relatively passive role in the shakeup.
Also there is, of course, NBC’s loss of O’Brien — a star at the network whose passionate fans are planning a support rally outside NBC Universal studios on Monday — with an excellent chance of him becoming a competitor to boot.
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Answer by Aimee B
I think it is exceptionally shitty that the NBC execs that Conan had been working for for well over a decade are basiclly making him out to be the fall guy, taking shi t about him and bad mouthing him because he soesn’t want to get screwed and take donw his peers.
It is as if Conan just walked off the street and took over the Tonight Show, never mind running Late Night for 13 years.
If i did not love 30 rock and like mercy (which is about to get cancelled too) I would completley boycott NBC.
Someone higher up i the ranks should go down
FYI Jay is taking back the Tonight Show
It will bethe end of it.
Those are fans of jay are disgusted those that love Conan will lose fans forever. Only those that are hating on Conan and do not get his silly self-depreciating humor will watch.
Sorry but that is really thinning out his audience.
So much so that Letterman (perhaps even Jimmy Kimmel and Jimmy Fallon) may beat him in the ratings.
So where will NBC go when then Tonight SHow has the lowest ratings it has ever seen, night after night as soon as Jay is back.
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The Tonight Show should end when O’Brien leaves. Jay Leno should be put out to pasture. NBC screwed up and lost its top spot for the 11:30 slot and won’t get it back by giving it to Leno. I hope Conan O’Brien goes to Fox or another network and kicks NBC’s butt. NBC has lost their audience’s respect and will lose their audience when O’Brien leaves.
it is pretty much insane.. There are numerous examples of NBC being stupid just look at the ratings but to take Conan out guarantees them loosing a large portion of the audience not to mention leaving them with no heir apparent for the tonight show,, It does even less for Leno’s bad rep and it will be made clear by dismal ratings when conan is up against him on another network.
I don’t really care. Personally, I like Jay Leno. He always makes me laugh. Conan doesn’t make me laugh. They are both rich men, either which way it winds up. Meanwhile, I keep driving my 25 year old car.
i hope Conan stays on, but it seems highly unlikely that will happen.