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11-11-10 | 05:50 AM
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Conan O'Brien was welcomed back to television by more than 4.1 million viewers, while his winning numbers had minimal effect on his late-night opponents.
The former host of "The Tonight Show," who left NBC eight months ago, returned on Monday with a new talk show, "Conan," premiering on basic-cable network TBS.
In the 11 p.m. Eastern hour, O'Brien's opening night throttled his direct rivals on Comedy Central. "The Daily Show with Jon Stewart" was seen by 1.3 million viewers, followed by "The Colbert Report" with 1 million.
But the curiosity factor clearly brought new viewers to the scene. Even against the debut of "Conan," the "Daily Show" audience dropped by just 200,000 viewers from its season-to-date average for Monday episodes. Viewership for "Colbert" dropped by only 150,000 from its season-to-date average.
Conan beat Jay Leno, the host who reclaimed the "Tonight Show" chair from him. Starting at 11:35 p.m. Eastern, "Tonight" attracted 3.5 million viewers. But "Tonight," which overlaps with "Conan" by 25 minutes, was down by just 100,000 viewers. Season-to-date, "Tonight" is averaging 3.6 million viewers, according to the Nielsen Co. It's really nice to have him back.
The former host of "The Tonight Show," who left NBC eight months ago, returned on Monday with a new talk show, "Conan," premiering on basic-cable network TBS.
In the 11 p.m. Eastern hour, O'Brien's opening night throttled his direct rivals on Comedy Central. "The Daily Show with Jon Stewart" was seen by 1.3 million viewers, followed by "The Colbert Report" with 1 million.
But the curiosity factor clearly brought new viewers to the scene. Even against the debut of "Conan," the "Daily Show" audience dropped by just 200,000 viewers from its season-to-date average for Monday episodes. Viewership for "Colbert" dropped by only 150,000 from its season-to-date average.
Conan beat Jay Leno, the host who reclaimed the "Tonight Show" chair from him. Starting at 11:35 p.m. Eastern, "Tonight" attracted 3.5 million viewers. But "Tonight," which overlaps with "Conan" by 25 minutes, was down by just 100,000 viewers. Season-to-date, "Tonight" is averaging 3.6 million viewers, according to the Nielsen Co. It's really nice to have him back.
11-11-10 | 09:14 AM
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re: Conan --> Series Discussion Thread --> 2010-2011
They can boast all the first few show's ratings all they want but they are essentially meaningless due to all the curiosity viewers the first ones will get. Wait 2-3 weeks & that will be more accurate of the ratings he will normally get.
Sort of bad time for his show to start anyways. 11pm is local news. They should have had him start at 11:30 so he would directly compete with Leno/Letterman
Sort of bad time for his show to start anyways. 11pm is local news. They should have had him start at 11:30 so he would directly compete with Leno/Letterman
11-11-10 | 11:34 AM
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I never really had huge expectations for the ratings and I doubt TBS did either (in fact they are probably quite satisfied with what he's getting). You can't really compare ratings of a show on cable to one that's on a network simply because most people probably have network where a lot might not have cable. I'm sure he has taken his core audience and some new supporters but realistically the majority of people were never going to stop watching Leno/Letterman all together and switch to Conan completely.
11-11-10 | 11:38 AM
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To everyone that has commented on the set design: The only thing I don't like about it are the red and gold partitions that were put up. It looks like a cross of garish 1970s decor and something would be a Star Trek episode where they visit a gladiator world.. It's especially distracting during the monologues since it typically only shows up on one side of the screen.
11-11-10 | 11:42 AM
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Those articles saying he won't drop the NBC thing don't make sense. He barely even made that many jokes at their expense. Maybe one or two in the first episode and that's all I recall thus far.
11-11-10 | 12:07 PM
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Conan's demographic base (young) don't watch the news anyway (they get it on the web). For older folks, they watch the 11pm news then watch Leno.
11-11-10 | 01:08 PM
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re: Conan --> Series Discussion Thread --> 2010-2011
To everyone that has commented on the set design: The only thing I don't like about it are the red and gold partitions that were put up. It looks like a cross of garish 1970s decor and something would be a Star Trek episode where they visit a gladiator world.. It's especially distracting during the monologues since it typically only shows up on one side of the screen.
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11-11-10 | 01:29 PM
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man, is it me or has Conan's opening monologues really really bit?
11-11-10 | 01:40 PM
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The monologue has never been Conan's strong point. The sketch comedy and bits are always better, because that's what he and his writers seem to excel at.
11-11-10 | 01:47 PM
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11-11-10 | 02:36 PM
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There were a few dvdtalkers who had tickets to one of his tapings, has it happened yet and could you share your experience?
11-11-10 | 04:00 PM
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Fistful of Mercy was awesome. Too bad they sound nothing like that on the record. They should invite Tom Morello to be a permanent member.
Never heard of Charlyne Yi but I thought she was hilarious.
Never heard of Charlyne Yi but I thought she was hilarious.
11-11-10 | 04:46 PM
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Yeah if anything I was expecting MORE cracks on NBC. A few jokes in the premiere and the masturbating bear bit but that's really it. He's still making jokes about how he has a new show on basic cable though, but that's different.
11-11-10 | 06:28 PM
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11-11-10 | 06:37 PM
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Do they not sound like that on their records? I've never heard of them and kinda want to check some stuff out.
11-12-10 | 01:21 AM
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11-12-10 | 01:27 AM
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He's lucky he's still alive the way NBC handled the whole thing, let alone got to take as much shit as he did. They won't even admit he's was ever on the damn network anymore!
11-12-10 | 01:29 AM
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IMO it's definitely lacking after hearing it live with Morello.
11-12-10 | 12:40 PM
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On a positive note Michael Cera was a great, best guest so far IMO
11-12-10 | 12:46 PM
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They name each episode? That's the first I've heard of it (but then again I was only able to catch Monday night's show). It does sound odd. What have been the episode names so far?
11-12-10 | 12:57 PM
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11-12-10 | 02:24 PM
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Thanks, those episode titles are pretty weird. Do they actually tie in with the content of each episode in any way, or are they just random Conan-ness? I can't imagine that they would be able to keep this up.