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Conan O'Brien to TBS

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Microfridge said:

I agree with this. All Lopez does is just talk really loud and in Spanish accent nothing funny at all.

One major problem Conan will have is the direct competition with the Daily Show and the Colbert Report. I love all three comedians so it'll be hard (setting it up for Swoly)
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Ever heard of DVR/Tivo?

One reason I can't stand Lopez...He's a huge laker fan

#41 REEKO_HTOWN, Apr 12, 2010

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I hope Andy goes with him. More Andy!

#42 Blake, Apr 12, 2010
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moestavern19 said:

I'm more happy that this means George Lopez's show is being pushed even further away from prime time.

I can't find the remote fast enough when that abysmal **** comes on after I've been watching Family Guy or The Office on TBS.
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I cannot tell you how many times this has happened to me.

You're not alone, always remember that.

I would have liked to see Conan follow Stewart/Colbert every night, but this'll do. Anyone know how long the contract is for?

#43 AkeemTheDreem86, Apr 12, 2010

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m_cable said:

Well that's the difference between comedy and sports. As the Daily show and Colbert report have shown, you can be a cable program with a fraction of the audience of a network and still make an impact on pop culture. Conan will make less money on TBS but it's also a safer bet vs having to appease the fox affiliates (who could very possibly revolt against Conan like the nbc ones turned on Leno when he didn't get the ratings).

I've been thinking that he should have done cable in the first place. Although I was more thinking about comedy central and forming a "Dream Team" lineup with Daily show and Colbert.
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Something like that could get very ugly very quickly. All nice guys, but egos are egos. If they weren't also an NBC-Universal subsidiary, USA would be a pretty solid cable match. They've got enough servicable, prime-time first-run shows on that they could round out their profile with a late night talk show.

#44 Dairy Ashford, Apr 12, 2010
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moestavern19 said:

I'm more happy that this means George Lopez's show is being pushed even further away from prime time.

I can't find the remote fast enough when that abysmal **** comes on after I've been watching Family Guy or The Office on TBS.
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Oh c'mon, nothing beats Snoop Dogg and George Lopez playing chat roulette bingo.

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Or Ron Artest making Usher crap his pants

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Ok, maybe we could have done without Ron and his raps.

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I left California because there were too many Laker Fans stabbing each other with churros. I could have eaten those churros and stabbed those Laker Fans with knives, but I held off.

Later in my life I realized what a mistake everything I had ever done had been, but it was too late now to go revising past missteps. I needed to take my ball and run with it, and take my ball I did.

#46 moestavern19, Apr 12, 2010

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^^ Churros [nodding]. Churros is the keyword there, sir.

Microfridge said:

I love all three comedians so it'll be hard
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It's not fun when you call my name before... (*that's what SHE said)

#47 SwoLy-D, Apr 12, 2010

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TheGM said:

For those saying Conan "Leno'd" Lopez...

"The press release states that TBS began negotiations with O'Brien last week, after George Lopez, who has his own late-night show on the channel, personally called the displaced "Tonight Show" host and asked him to join the lineup.

"I can't think of anything better than doing my show with Conan as my lead-in," Lopez said in the press release. "It's the beginning of a new era in late-night comedy."

O'Brien's still-untitled, one-hour show will air Mondays through Thursdays at 11 p.m. ET/PT starting in November. "Lopez Tonight," which currently airs at 11 p.m., will shift to midnight." -MTV News
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#48 cavevato, Apr 12, 2010
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I gave Lopez tonight a chance, but man is it horrible...too Hispanic/stereotypical for my tastes, but to each their own...

#49 rrj_gamz, Apr 12, 2010
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cavevato said:

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Good God that is horrible. His signature "look to the right, smile, and stick out my tongue" after every punch line is the most annoying thing I've ever seen. I'm going to have to be sure to turn the TV off quickly after Conan.

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WhoMikeJames said:

Very funny.
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I see what you did there

#51 pgabriel, Apr 12, 2010
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Oski2005 said:

Biding his time before Letterman retires.
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Yup.

I guess on the bright side for his show he can be a little more crazy on cable.

#52 Coach AI, Apr 12, 2010
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Surfguy said:

Now, Lopez is getting screwed by Conan. lol
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the reports are that lopez personally called conan and sold him on it.

its actually a good move for lopez as he know has a decent lead-in for his own crappy show.

http://mediadecoder.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/04/12/how-the-conan-obrien-tbs-deal-happened/?src=busln
How the Conan O’Brien-TBS Deal Happened

Conan O’Brien’s manager, Gavin Polone, said that a whirlwind negotiation of only about 10 days led the late-night star to leave network television and jump to the cable network, TBS.
George Lopez, whose talk show currently fills the 11 p.m. slot at TBS, reportedly helped convince Conan O’Brien to come to the channel. George Lopez, whose talk show currently fills the 11 p.m. slot at TBS, reportedly helped convince Conan O’Brien to come to the channel.

“They called us about a week and a half ago,” Mr. Polone said, in outlining how the negotiations began.

The Turner Entertainment president, Steve Koonin, laid out the network’s offer to give Mr. O’Brien a show at 11 p.m. weeknights, but Mr. Polone said that the Conan team had an immediate reaction: “You guys already have an 11 p.m. show.”

He was referring to the current 11 p.m. late-night show on TBS, hosted by the comedian George Lopez. Mr. Polone said that Mr. Koonin told him everything had been worked out, and that Mr. Lopez had agreed to slide his show back to midnight to make room for Mr. O’Brien.

But that script was awfully familiar to the Conan O’Brien side. “That sounded very similar to Jeff Gaspin coming to Conan and asking him to move back to midnight to make room for Jay,” Mr. Polone said.

In the turbulent early weeks of January, NBC’s entertainment chief, Mr. Gaspin, went to Mr. O’Brien to ask him to move the “Tonight Show” to 12:05 a.m. to free up the preceding half hour for Jay Leno to move back to late night (in a 30-minute show) after the quick failure of his 10 p.m. comedy hour.

Mr. O’Brien refused and negotiated his exit from NBC. In the months since, his representatives were known to be speaking mainly to Fox Broadcasting about a new show for that network.

Mr. Polone said he went to Mr. O’Brien to inform him of the TBS offer. “Conan said, ‘We’re not putting ourselves in the position of shoving somebody out of his show.’ ” That blocked the potential deal for a brief time.

But that position changed after another phone call. Mr. Polone said that Mr. Lopez himself called Mr. O’Brien personally. “George called Conan to sell Conan on this idea. He was all for it. It really was George who made this happen.”

With Mr. Lopez on board, talks became serious very quickly with TBS, Mr. Polone said. TBS emphasized how young their audience was, a match with Mr. O’Brien’s core viewers. “The lead-ins would be shows like ‘Family Guy’ and ‘The Office,’ which is great for Conan,” Mr. Polone said. Mr. Lopez has the youngest audience in late night, with a median age of 33.

The negotiations moved rapidly because, Mr. Polone said, TBS agreed quickly to almost every request. “We’d come back with complex details and they’d apologize and say they might not be able to get back to us for two hours.”

TBS also promised “the biggest promotional campaign in television history” for Mr. O’Brien, using some of TBS’s most popular properties, including this year’s NBA playoffs and the Major League Baseball playoffs.

Mr. O’Brien will continue to produce his show in Los Angeles, Mr. Polone said.

He declined to comment on what happened with the negotiations with the Fox network, except to say that they had been continuing. But several executives who have been familiar with that process said that complications had made those negotiations difficult to conclude.

Mainly Fox’s affiliated stations have deals in place for syndicated programs — mostly repeats of shows like “The Simpsons” and the same two comedies that play on TBS, “The Office” and “Family Guy.” The stations have already paid for those shows and sold advertising for them.

The stations have also been through a financially crippling year because of the national recession and many were resistant to giving up the profits they would experience with the syndicated repeats. (Fox and the affiliates were also facing contentious negotiations over retransmission rights to cable networks, a source of income the two entities will battle over in terms of who gets how much.)

Mr. O’Brien was likely to reach only about 60 percent of the country with a first broadcast at 11 p.m. The rest of the country would be reached at later hours, diminishing his chances to hit a big rating – at least initially. Fox was promising to expand the coverage to full clearance at 11 p.m. in about three years, several parties to the talks said.

But with TBS, Mr. O’Brien will reach almost every home in the nation immediately. That made the deal more attractive.

Stepping away from a broadcast network may mean that he will not get a full chance to face off with Mr. Leno and NBC, a prospect he might have liked given the circumstances of his departure.

But what it does set up is a new kind of heavyweight match in late night. Now Mr. O’Brien will be face to face with the two big stars of late night in cable, Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert of Comedy Central.

All three men are close friends; now they will be measured directly against each other in the ratings.
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I dunno. I like lopez.

#54 Kam, Apr 12, 2010
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wow, goerge lopez did something good

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jsonic6 said:

Wow TBS... Really? He must've got paid really big to go cable.
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I heard Conan wants to be the first billionaire talk show host.

#56 Jontro, Apr 12, 2010
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jo mama said:

the reports are that lopez personally called conan and sold him on it.

its actually a good move for lopez as he know has a decent lead-in for his own crappy show.
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Great move for Lopez; when O'Brien moves back to network, he'll have Lopez do a bunch of stand-up and guest-hosting spots, then either get him Ferguson or Fallon's job, or another network sitcom.

#57 Dairy Ashford, Apr 12, 2010
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Will all of you look at the YouTube video of GEORGE LOPEZ calling out Conan and Jay Leno?!?!? Check it out again.

LOL @ Conan accepting this "suggestion" from raspy-ass voiced George Lopez whom at one time, during the monologue someone posted from YouTube, called Conan a "pendejo" which is a very bad insult to someone. It's like calling them "*******" in Spanish.

I do not like George Lopez for this. I hope he notices he did this and apologizes to Coco.

#58 SwoLy-D, Apr 12, 2010

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SwoLy-D said:

Will all of you look at the YouTube video of GEORGE LOPEZ calling out Conan and Jay Leno?!?!? Check it out again.

LOL @ Conan accepting this "suggestion" from raspy-ass voiced George Lopez whom at one time, during the monologue someone posted from YouTube, called Conan a "pendejo" which is a very bad insult to someone. It's like calling them "*******" in Spanish.

I do not like George Lopez for this. I hope he notices he did this and apologizes to Coco.
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I'm sure Lopez was talking out of his ass trying to be funny and wasn't completely serious. Now that Conan is going to give him a bigger audience than ever, the ass kissing will commence.

#59 DieHard Rocket, Apr 12, 2010
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I see what you mean, but he still shouldn't call anyone any names. Why would you have to go through an explanation or an "I wasn't being serious" talk?

Maybe I just don't identify any "Hispanic" or "Mexican" stuff Lopez says. Sure, it's stereotypical... sure it's funny... but... his *)$&^#*&$ VOICE... it's annoying.

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