Essentially this is like the "what movie did you watch" thread, but with t.v./general discussion of teevee programming/where you pick a network executive and just post 2 paragraph long slanderous assaults on their intellect and character.
Currently nothing. But I'm going to give you, yes all both of you reading, an EXCLUSIVE postmortem of the 'late night wars' (because in my home thread on this crap I think I've picked that carcass dry and discussed it to a level nobody would ever, ever care about. I need to get a hobby outside of applying my history major skills to network bungles.)
-Leno, and I know the internet wants his head on a pike but I personally just can't muster up that level of vitriol here, is gonna probably be just fine. There will be no backlash, or internet conan-fan led partisan warfare, people will not cancel appearing on his show.
-Conan, and I am going to go with the prevailing wisdom here so feel free to scream "bandwagon", could very likely end up on FOX. Fox will likely try again to make themselves a late night t.v. player, something they abandoned since The Chevy Chase show became the talk-show equivilent of the hindenburg. Will it work? I guarantee you it wouldn't be as bad as the chevy chase show, if for no other reason than the press they'd get from "We hired Conan" would stir up interest by itself. Also Conan O'Brien knows how to make a not-awful late night show
-If Conan appears on SNL in the 7 months he's "not allowed to host a show", it wouldn't stun me. If this somehow violates his pseudo no-compete agreement, I can easily still see it occuring sometime
-Conan's last show was the most dignified, professional send off to a job he clearly adored. And, dare I say, just sort of a class act all around.
-Letterman is still the best, also if you haven't checked out Craig Ferguson's show I advise it highly. (This is apropos of almost nothing, but its correct)
-Jeff Zucker, CEO of NBC, is a doomed man. If the comcast buyout of NBC Universal goes through I am practically willing to bet money that their first act of business is going to be giving him the axe. He and NBC are essentially a punchline now. It's just been one thing after another, generally nobody including me can name a network CEO, but this guys screwed up so much he's known (at least among..intratube cognoscenti, but still). Does not bode well
-Think this, or even the letterman v leno thing was the first time NBC had a total quagmire involving late night programming? Yeah..nope, same song but they changed the tempo a bit
http://blog.wfmu.org/freeform/2010/01/late-night-.html (this is a pretty good article, fyi, or I liked it anyway).
