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The first guests on ‘Conan’ have been revealed during the ‘Live Coco Cam’ session, which took place earlier this week.

In the last hour of the live 24-hour session, two puppets revealed the guests for the first week.

Seth Rogen and Jack White will appear on the first show on Monday, 8th November. They will be followed on Tuesday by Jack McBrayer, Soundgarden and Tom Hanks, who provided Conan O’Brien with the nickname ‘Coco’ during the first week of The Tonight Show with Conan O’Brien.

The very first guest on the programme will be chosen via a poll being taken on the Team Coco website. Jack Nicholson leads the poll, with Lady Gaga in second place.

The first print ad has been released for Conan’s new TBS show starting this November. The advert features Conan’s lookalike (an owl!) and the words “Wild. Noctural.” Will he keep the beard when the show goes to air…?

Conan O’Brien has announced the name of his new TBS talk show starting this November. It will simply be called Conan. The talk show premieres on the 8th November at 11pm on TBS.

Conan has launched some new bits and pieces in preparation for the new show – he has a brand new Team Coco YouTube channel and a revamped official Team Coco website.

New promotional ads are now running on TBS for Conan O’Brien’s new show (tentatively titled The Conan O’Brien Show) which begins this November. The new show will air Monday-Thursday (not Monday-Friday) and it will air at 11pm before Lopez Tonight.

Click here to watch the promo videos

Conan O’Brien’s writing team will appear on a TBS special. The standup special will be called Team Coco Presents Conan’s Writers Live and will air this weekend (Sunday at 10/9c). It will be a showcase for the writing talents of Conan’s team.

Conan won’t be appearing on the show himself though as he’s not allowed to appear on any TV shows until later this year, because of his exit deal with NBC (hence the name of his recent theatre tour – “Conan O’Brien presents The Legally Prohibited from Being Funny on Television Tour”).

Speaking about Conan O’Brien’s new talk show coming to TBS this November, Andy Richter has said “the network couldn’t have been more open to us and more inviting to us and more welcoming to us… it was pretty lousy what happened and it felt pretty lousy, but I really do think we’re going to end up in a better place and that’s already becoming evident”.

The name for Conan’s new talk show has not yet been confirmed.

TV Guide – “Andy Richter: Prepare For a Lot of Silliness on Team Coco Special”

Conan O’Brien says he’s ready for his new TBS talk show which premieres on the 8th November.

At a TBS/TNT programming presentation for advertisers in New York he said “I haven’t done any research, but my hunch is that 33-year-old males want to hear corny jokes and live country music… I can’t wait to get back to having fun on television… that’s all I want to do”. Conan said “I’m more of a man… my testosterone levels have tripled since I went through this experience”.

BusinessWeek – “Conan O’Brien Says He’s Ready to Be Back on TV at TBS…”

Conan O’Brien has put forward his version of The Tonight Show for this year’s Emmy nominations. This means The Tonight Show With Conan O’Brien will go head-to-head with The Tonight Show With Jay Leno for the award of Best Variety Show.

Gawker – “Conan O’Brien Makes Tonight Show Run Against Itself In the Emmys”
Los Angeles Times – “Emmy battle of the ‘Tonight Shows’: Conan vs. Jay…”

Conan O’Brien was on CBS’s 60 Minutes programme last week to talk about his exit from The Tonight Show and signing up with TBS for his new Monday-Friday 11pm show which starts later this year. Click here to watch the 60 Minutes interview (skip to 27 minutes into the video for the start of the interview). Conan said he “got very depressed at times” and said his live theatre comedy tour made him “feel better almost immediately”.

CBS News – 60 Minutes (watch the whole programme)
TV Guide – “Conan 60 Minutes Interview – Today’s News Our Take”