I was out most of the day, well into the evening last night, plus I’m getting ready to head out shortly for the morning today.
But I wanted to make one last comment (for today) on this late-nite mess going on over at NBC, and spilling out into all the other talk shows.
Regardless of who may or may not be the funniest person in late-nite (dead tie between Letterman & Craig Ferguson), it is kind of funny to see history being conveniently rewritten by “victim” Conan O’Brien.
Back before Jay had to agree to surrender The Tonight Show to Archie Andrews on growth hormones, Leno was the long-running late-nite ratings leader. NBC was quite happy to push him out to pasture, despite his intent to run the show as long as Johnny Carson had. It was only when ALL the other networks came calling to put him in a competitive timeslot against Red Toothpick, that NBC concocted this disastrous prime-time slot.
Now, we keep hearing that The Jay Leno Show had lousy ratings. Even this writer can’t seem to contain his bias, when presenting cold hard facts:
http://ca.news.yahoo.com/s/capress/100113/entertainment/tv_us_leno_o_brien
Leno - 5 million viewers.
O’Brien – 2.5 million viewers, after 7 months trotting out his brand of TV.
If the numbers were reversed, it wouldn’t be Conan who was being asked to move to a later time slot. He just ain’t cuttin’ it folks – and as poorly as those dimwitted execs at NBC are acting, numbers don’t lie.
Hosts crying fowl do seem to, though…
Chow for now!!
2 comments:
The fact of the matter is Conan is getting screwed much like Dave did years ago.
If Jay was half a man he would walk and let Conan or whomever take over..we all know he won't as he is prone to hiding in closets.
He'll take the Tonight Show gig but for the life of me I cannot figure out why people (Especially in the US) like him??
Same as Larry king and Willie Nelson. What's up with those guys?
After watching a little bit of everything this past week I can unequivocally say Jay is the lamest Talk Show host ever.
he may not be the only bad guy in this scenario but if and when he does come back(And he will because his ego will allow it and if he succeed again he will be NBC's saviour) he will lose some viewers. The question is for how long and will they come back? Here's hoping they won't.
1) SNL this week hit the nail on the head - it was the network that shuffled everyone around - NOT Leno. He never wanted to leave, and had the top rated show at the time (for YEARS).
2) Conan's ego just had to suck it up, and take the move to midnight. Leno may have flopped back in his old timeslot, and he won't be around forever anyhow. Then Red Toothpick could've slid in, and maybe by then he'd appeal to viewers.
3) Ironically, Conan was thought to be the Great Saviour for NBC, regarding that coveted young demographic viewership. However, the existing viewers(adults over 12 both in age and IQ) clearly didn't care for his style and jumped ship,plus the younger viewers didn't give a rat's ass about him either. He may survive on FOX, but this mess may literally reshape the late-nite landscape.
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