Posted: Friday 9th July 2010 at 9:23am by Paul
The Tonight Show With Conan O’Brien has been nominated at this year’s Emmy Awards.
The now defunct NBC show is nominated for “Outstanding Variety, Music or Comedy Series” against The Daily Show With Jon Stewart, The Colbert Report, Saturday Night Live and Real Time With Bill Maher.
Conan tweeted “Congrats to my staff on 4 Emmy nominations. This bodes well for the future of The Tonight Show with Conan O’Brien”.
Jay Leno spoke about the nominations for The Tonight Show With Conan O’Brien on his show this week, saying “the big show business news is that the Emmy nominations were announced today… the good news: The Tonight Show got four nominations! The bad news: I didn’t get one of them… remember there’s no ‘me’ in Emmy”.
Saturday Night Live is also nominated in the “Guest Actress in a Comedy Series” category for Betty White and Tina Fey’s appearances on the show.
TV Squad – “Emmy Awards 2010 Nominees List”
TV Guide – “Jay Leno Pokes Fun at Losing Emmy Nominations to Conan O’Brien”
The Associated Press – “Reactions to the 62nd annual Emmy nominations”
Posted: Sunday 23rd May 2010 at 3:36pm by Paul
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…”
Posted: Sunday 28th February 2010 at 5:52pm by Paul
The final CNBC reruns of The Tonight Show With Conan O’Brien will air tonight (8pm and 8.45pm) and tomorrow night (11pm).
According to several TV listing services – including Radio Times – The Tonight Show With Jay Leno will take its place from Tuesday night. Radio Times show it will air at the normal 11pm 30-minute timeslot Monday-Friday. It’s thought it will be shown on a one-show delay (i.e. each week Monday night’s NBC show will air Tuesday nights on CNBC).
The Tonight Show With Jay Leno will premiere tomorrow night on NBC in America and the official website is also expected to launch tomorrow.
Posted: Tuesday 16th February 2010 at 9:47am by Paul
There are no 11pm reruns of The Tonight Show With Conan O’Brien Monday-Thursday this week. Reruns will resume on Friday night at 11pm. Reruns are currently scheduled as normal for next week (Monday-Friday at 11pm) and weekend reruns remain unchanged (8pm and 8.45pm). There’s still no word on whether The Tonight Show With Jay Leno will air on CNBC when it starts in March.
Posted: Monday 1st February 2010 at 12:41pm by Paul
The final episode of The Tonight Show With Conan O’Brien was a huge ratings success.
Entertainment Weekly reports it “earned a whopping 7.0 rating/16 share in 55 of the country’s metered markets (the most immediate numbers available). Ratings for his fellow latenight hosts didn’t even come close: The Late Show with David Letterman averaged a mere 2.5/5, while Nightline earned a 2.8/6, and Jimmy Kimmel Live, a 1.3/4. Late Night with Jimmy Fallon, however, was able to draft off of O’Brien’s success: his show averaged a respectible 3.3/10, easily beating Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson (1.5/4)”.
If only those ratings were a regular thing and he might still be at NBC.
Entertainment Weekly (EW.com) – “Conan O’Brien’s farewell attracts big ratings”
Posted: Monday 25th January 2010 at 8:41pm by Paul
CNBC will air reruns of The Tonight Show With Conan O’Brien until March. It’s not yet confirmed if The Tonight Show With Jay Leno will air on the channel when it starts. Upcoming shows (all episodes are reruns except tonight’s show) on CNBC:
List updated 8th February 2010;
Monday 25th January – 11pm – Steve Carrell, Tom Hanks, Will Ferrell, Neil Young (Finale!)
Tuesday 26th January – 11pm – Jenny McCarthy (Rerun)
Wednesday 27th January – 11pm – John Travolta (Rerun)
Thursday 28th January – 11pm – Rachel McAdams (Rerun)
Friday 29th January – 11pm – Howie Mandel (Rerun)
Saturday 30th January – 8pm – Steve Carrell, Tom Hanks, Will Ferrell, Neil Young (Rerun)
Saturday 30th January – 8.45pm – Eddie Izzard (Rerun)
Sunday 31st January – 8pm – John C. Reilly (Rerun)
Sunday 31st January – 8.45pm – Chris O’Donnell (Rerun)
Monday 1st February – 11pm – John Travolta (Rerun)
Tuesday 2nd February – 11pm – Rachel McAdams (Rerun)
Wednesday 3rd February – 11pm – Ben Stiller (Rerun)
Thursday 4th February – 11pm – Zach Braff (Rerun)
Friday 5th February – 11pm – Tom Arnold (Rerun)
Saturday 6th February – 8pm – Ewan McGregor (Rerun)
Saturday 6th February – 8.45pm – Jim Carrey (Rerun)
Sunday 7th February – 8pm – Kelsey Grammer (Rerun)
Sunday 7th February – 8.45pm – Jessica Biel (Rerun)
Monday 8th February – 11pm – Megan Mullally (Rerun)
Tuesday 9th February – 11pm – Wanda Sykes (Rerun)
Wednesday 10th February – 11pm – John Krasinski (Rerun)
Thursday 11th February – 11pm – Nigel Marven (Rerun)
Friday 12th February – 11pm – Christina Applegate (Rerun)
Saturday 13th February – 8pm – Heather Locklear (Rerun)
Saturday 13th February – 8.45pm – Al Gore (Rerun)
Sunday 14th February – 8pm – Reese Witherspoon (Rerun)
Sunday 14th February – 8.45pm – 50 Cent (Rerun)
More CNBC reruns to be announced soon.
Posted: Sunday 24th January 2010 at 5:53pm by Paul
The final episode of The Tonight Show With Conan O’Brien aired on Friday night. Steve Carrell, Tom Hanks, Will Ferrell and Neil Young all appeared on the last show. Click here to watch highlights from the final few shows. In his final monologue Conan said “we have exactly one hour to steal every single item in this studio”.
Highlights of the final show included another “World’s Most Expensive Sketch” to use up the remaining portion of the budget for The Tonight Show, Conan asking what will happen to the almost-new Tonight Show studio he’s leaving behind (“leave the studio cold and empty and rename it the world’s largest metaphor for NBC programming”), Steve Carrell conducting Conan’s NBC “exit interview”, Tom Hanks coming out to greet Conan wearing sunglasses and plying him with alcohol and Will Ferrell’s song to to close the show (with Conan on guitar and Max on the drums).
Conan has been using some expensive music throughout the final week of The Tonight Show and will be sending the bill to NBC to pay for the rights for that – including Satisfaction by The Rolling Stones and Lovely Rita by The Beatles.
Conan’s final speech on The Tonight Show was emotional. He said “every comedian dreams of hosting The Tonight Show and for seven months I got to… I did it my way, with people I love, and I do not regret a second. I’ve had more good fortune than anyone I know and if our next gig is doing a show in a 7-Eleven parking lot we’ll find a way to make it fun… I don’t want to do it in a 7-Eleven parking lot”. There wasn’t one mention of Jay Leno throughout the entire show.
NBC officially confirmed The Tonight Show will return on 1st March with former host Jay Leno. Conan will be able to start a new talk show from September if he wants to – Fox are rumoured to be very interested.
Conan’s final Tonight Show will air on CNBC at 11pm tomorrow night – the usual CNBC 30-minute cutdown version. Reruns of The Tonight Show With Conan O’Brien will air on NBC next week.
NBC – “NBC Announces That Jay Leno Will Return To Host ‘The Tonight Show’”
NBC – “Statement From NBC and Conan O’Brien”
BusinessWeek – “O’Brien thanks fans, NBC on final ‘Tonight’ show”
NY Daily News – “Questlove: Use of Beatles’ ‘Lovely Rita’ on Conan O’Brien’s last ‘Tonight Show’ cost NBC $500k”
