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by David Corbin Posted:April 11th, 2010 at 10:41 pm
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Ever since Conan O’Brien’s very public departure from NBC, industry analysts have assumed that the comic would find a new home at Fox. After all, it was because of Fox’s previous courtship of O’Brien that NBC guaranteed him the right to host the Tonight Show, a move that in hindsight may not have been the best decision. Though O’Brien and Fox are close to completing a deal, the affiliates have not yet approved the move. O’Brien has stipulated that Fox must air his new show in all or nearly all markets. Affiliates, who would be stuck with the syndication costs ofits current programming as well as a higher retransmission fee, are less than enthusiastic about the proposal. Fox wants the affiliates to sign off on a new late-night show before May 17th when it is scheduled to deliver its upfront presentation to advertisers. For more on the negotiations between O’Brien and Fox hit the jump.
Part of the reason for the affiliates to hesitate saying “I’m With Coco” is because O’Brien’s new show would air at 11:00PM, which would give him a half-hour headstart on Jay Leno and David Letterman at the expense of a prime syndication time-slot. Aside from affiliate concerns, another issue in the negotiations is ownership of the show. O’Brien wants to own his show in the manner that Letterman’s Worldwide Pants owns “Late Show.” Fox, however, would prefer to retain ownership and instead wants to keep O’Brien just as an employee, a la Leno’s relationship with NBC.
According to The Live Feed, O’Brien has already made several concessions, notably cutting his salary and the show’s overall production cost. While at NBC, his show cost $90 million a year to produce, a figure that is expected to tumble down to $60 million at Fox.
Both sides want this to happen and the prevailing sense is that the affiliates are all that stand in the way of bringing O’Brien to Fox for late-night in 2010. More on this story as it develops.
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Yes! I can't wait for his return!
This has got to happen, Leno and NBC absolutely screwed up The Tonight Show for Conan O'Brien by doing The Jay Leno Show and Leno should have let it be known he didn't want to retire or hand the show over to Conan to begin with. It lasted 7 months, could have lasted longer but Conan didn't want to out of respect for it ruin that show by having them air it at 11:05pm. Now FOX has a legit oppurtunity here at bringing in the very talented Conan O'Brien who can definitely hold his own with Leno, Letterman. NBC though is the reason Conan didn't sign with FOX back in 2005, by promising him The Tonight Show in 2009 and extending his contract. So this seems like a natural fit if it happens.
Conans statement was actually classy and insightful.I think that “Tonight Show” host, and NBC did not want low-rated hockey games cluttering its weeknight schedule or the possibility that an extended overtime would delay any more of O'Brien.
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I can't wait to see his new show. I thing he got screwed big time over at NBC and I hope that his relationship with Fox will work out well.
I know that there are several problem with that. O'Brien doesn't want to repeat his mistakes, so he'd like to own the show, but if Fox isn't willing to do this, will he have to surrender this demand? That would give them the chance to do same thing NBC just did with all Conan-invented skits.
The change of budget isn't that significant to me. Some bits they were presenting like group of dancers entertaining the back row or the staff bringing a giant statue were more annoying than funny to me ;p
Too bad he isn't going to get the Tonight Show time slot (I guess that this part is already a sure thing, right?), so that he could Leno's ass, but whatever… I mean, at least viewers who like multiple hosts can watch his show and than tune out to watch Letterman/Leno when there's a commercial followed by the musical guest – that's the most boring part of the show for me
Conans statement was actually classy and insightful.I think that “Tonight Show” host, and NBC did not want low-rated hockey games cluttering its weeknight schedule or the possibility that an extended overtime would delay any more of O'Brien.
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I can't wait to see his new show. I thing he got screwed big time over at NBC and I hope that his relationship with Fox will work out well.
I know that there are several problem with that. O'Brien doesn't want to repeat his mistakes, so he'd like to own the show, but if Fox isn't willing to do this, will he have to surrender this demand? That would give them the chance to do same thing NBC just did with all Conan-invented skits.
The change of budget isn't that significant to me. Some bits they were presenting like group of dancers entertaining the back row or the staff bringing a giant statue were more annoying than funny to me ;p
Too bad he isn't going to get the Tonight Show time slot (I guess that this part is already a sure thing, right?), so that he could Leno's ass, but whatever… I mean, at least viewers who like multiple hosts can watch his show and than tune out to watch Letterman/Leno when there's a commercial followed by the musical guest – that's the most boring part of the show for me