Leno Replaces Conan on Tonight Show...

Will they change the name of the Lopez show since it is technically not on at night anymore? (lol)

Actually, the more I read about, the more it sounds like Lopez played a big role in bringing Conan to TBS. Whether or not he'll one day be bitter about it remains to be seen, but he's got to know his chances of being watched are better with Conan as a lead-in than with some terrible Tyler Perry sitcom.

I wonder why they didn't just put Conan on at 12 instead of 11? Surely Daily Show/Colbert will cut hugely into his ratings at that time.

if conan wanted to be on at 12 he would've stayed at nbc?

oh yeah, good point

ok so explain for a non-us. what does basic cable mean? cursing?

it means "no audience, but that's okay"

I wish he was moving the show back to NYC, but it seems he's not. Comedians are just funnier in New York, aren't they?

A basic-cable channel is one that's included in nearly all cable packages. Premium channels like HBO or Showtime cost extra.

Comedians are just funnier in New York, aren't they?

no

xp As far as cursing goes, that's pretty much restricted to premium cable.

TBS, along with WGN and WOR, was one of basic cable's first "superstations." It was an Atlanta market entity early on that just aired reruns of Gilligan's Island and I Dream of Jeannie and showed old black & white movies all night. It could be picked up over the air in Atlanta w/o having to subscribe to cable, but I have no idea if that's still the case.

Anyway, the audience will be a fraction of what he was getting on NBC, despite a huge portion of the country having access to TBS. Since TBS has no late local newscast, he suffers from not getting the traditional late night show lead-in.

tbs is better than fox simply because this way I don't have to watch fox.

but if he was going cable, I still don't see why he didn't try for comedy central - a block w/ the daily show and colbert would have been amazing and I think could get a sizeable audience in the long-term, esp since it's already starting out w/ one.

WTF is TBS?

^^^ new channel motto

you mean that's not their current motto?

10pm is Comedy Central's "prime time" for all their original shows like South Park, i don't think they'd move that around to have another nightly talk show.

btw my illusions are totally shattered right now, i <3 Weinberg and consider him such an integral part of the show. i mean if he's not a nice guy irl it's okay, but it seems odd since so much of his presence in the show's comedy was about inventing implausible ways in which he's supposedly a horrible person.

Since TBS has no late local newscast, he suffers from not getting the traditional late night show lead-in.

iirc payne and family guy reruns at 10 pm do pretty well and are likely very male heavy which should benefit conan

if the House of Payne viewership is male-heavy, I will eat a hat

late local newscasts are for old people ie not Conan's core demo

I guess that's true. I just wonder how many within our demo will remember to flip to TBS at 11. I probably will, but I stay up late and catch catch the 1:30 repeats of Daily Show and Colbert.

can catch

let me rephrase - house of payne does huge ratings. additionally, family guy does well esp. with young males.

Channels don't mean anything anymore. If people found Mad Men on AMC and The Shield on FX I'm sure this will do fine (if it's good).

i think poly is pretty otm -- this could do really well on tbs very funny considering that pretty much all of tbs's promo/marketing work has already been done for them & will continue to be done for them by journalists & the internet -- if the show is funny it could def capitalize on a big first week buzz

i don't know a hell of a lot about how late night shows are booked but could conan run into trouble booking big name guests over fallon & craig ferguson (to say nothing of letterman & leno)? or does the name recognition of guests not even matter?

Apparently, Conan's going to finally own the show like Letterman does with his own. If the ratings are there (and they will be), he'll be beholden to no one but his own whims.

10pm is Comedy Central's "prime time" for all their original shows like South Park, i don't think they'd move that around to have another nightly talk show.

south park + a million failed shows

Yeah, I never know exactly what's coming on after South Park from week to week.

all I know is that it's probably gonna suck. 'ugly americans' has got to be the worst thing on television right now.

I watched five minutes of it. That was enough.

I wonder how much of their original programming is designed to make "Drawn Together" look like the pinnacle of modern comedy in retrospect.

I wouldn't go that far!

I was considering mentioning 'drawn together' but I don't even want to think about it

the fact that that show survived for 3 SEASONS is mindblowing

It was like television for juggalos.

Coming straight to DVD in one week: Drawn Together: The Movie

what the

like, I'm the only person on ILX who ever said anything kind about "Drawn Together" and I think that is a terrible, terrible idea

so bizarrely conan's first road show was tonight in eugene, OR, which is where i live. we rarely get awesome things right here in town so my sisters and i went. it was basically a two-hour homage to the best bits of the show and it was pretty satisfying. andy richter was there! tbh i was more excited about seeing him than anyone else.

conan performed like six songs with the band in between comedy bits, and Spoon was in town for a concert so they showed up and played "i summon you." he also brought back the walker texas ranger lever (for legal reasons now called the "chuck norris rural policeman handle") and randomly brought out jack mcbrayer from 30 rock to pull it. i don't think he said a word, he just grinned in that elfish way he has.

he only mentioned the TBS thing in passing, but he seemed to be in genuinely good spirits and he and the band and everyone really went all-out. no max weinberg, but plenty of la bamba.

How George Lopez started his show last night:

http://www.tbs.com/video/index.jsp?oid=214335

(Spoiler: He's not funny.)

all I know is that it's probably gonna suck. 'ugly americans' has got to be the worst thing on television right now.

― iatee, Monday, April 12, 2010 2:52 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark

this show is mindblowingly bad

Lopez thing was pretty unfunny, until they busted on Jay Leno. I can get behind that from anyone.

a train on jay leno, is what you're saying

Last night George Lopez had Chris Rock on the show. He made three audience members play "Chris Rock Band". They recited Chris Rock routines to the audience while Chris Rock stood there and listened.

To say that Chris Rock looked mortified is an understatement.

lol probably about the same way i look whenever a person i know recites a Chris Rock routine irl

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V-ed3wjGWns

Conan will film on the Warner lot

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/05/17/conan-obrien-to-film-tbs-_n_578365.html

We should probably make the Conan on TBS anticipation thread sometime.

This was only fun when there was frantic hair-pulling and eye-gouging between Conan, Leno and the NBC execs.