majorjoe23

Not having the band seems like a big loss. I’m a big Mark Pender fan.

mphtrilogy

Is this Podcast new? I'd like to listen in, whats the name of it?

Thanks,

story

Really? That may not go as well as they think. That live music element just feels integral. And I love those guys! But if they're not in the studio for live stuff a lot...

Hokeyboy

I love Conan, but losing the band is gonna hurt. Riffing on La Bamba is always a hoot.

mphtrilogy

found the podcast, starts next month I think

called Conan O’Brien Needs a Friend

Mike86

It’ll be different with no band but from how it sounds he’s going to be on location more doing skits/interviews. I can sort of see where the band doesn’t fit the new format.

JeffTheAlpaca

It seems he has been on hiatus for most of 2018. He came back with maybe 2 or 3 new weeks of shows in Sept and reruns aired for most of June-July.

walletboyniac

Who the fuck fires his band of 25 years?

Troy Stiffler

It is a whole new format. It’s down to 22 minutes. I’d imagine his whole business is getting restructured.

Conan behind the scenes bits always made it look like he keeps his business lean and thrifty. Good business sense.

I wonder how Max Weinberg is doing.

JeffTheAlpaca

He is back with the new format

Tom Hanks and the cast of a Good Place is on this week and Pete Holmes next week.

whotony

The last ep of his Tonight show aired on this date 2010

windom

Anyone watching the new format? I thought it would be more pre-recorded bits, but it seems to just be a condensed version of his old show.

I can understand he's trying to be less formal, but the denim jacket every night drives me crazy.

JeffTheAlpaca

The 2019 Comic-Con episodes premiere next week and they will be 1 hour episodes.

thematahara

I kind of wish he would just ditch his show and do the travel episodes full time

Josh-da-man

Does anyone even watch Conan? He has a shit time slot on a shit channel.

I only tune in for his Comicon episodes.

Troy Stiffler

Red Hood

I watch it, but usually on the weeks the Daily Show is running reruns.

JeffTheAlpaca

TBS is a shit channel?

I wish he still had the Tonight Show and Fallon the late night slot.

That was the perfect lineup for NBC.

Red Hood

Agreed. Jay Leno and Jeff Zucker really fucked up NBC and Conan. I still don't know how the hell Zucker not only has a job, but keeps getting promoted at Warnermedia.

windom

Glad to see they want back to one hour shows for Comic Con.

Sonny Corinthos

I wish NBC hadn't ran him off. He's so much better than Fallon.

Deftones

I won the Jon Snow funko pop last night. Will add it to the Superman one I won a few years ago.

dex14

Conan O’Brien to End TBS Late-Night Show in 2021, Sets Weekly HBO Max Variety Series
https://variety.com/2020/tv/news/con...ijy2nZZuX5K4Ns

windom

Damn. Ending in June. So no more Comic-con episodes (assuming Comic-con even happens next year).

Decker

Interesting....

https://variety.com/2020/tv/news/con...ax-1234833815/

Conan O’Brien to End TBS Late-Night Show in 2021, Sets Weekly HBO Max Variety Series

Conan O’Brien will end his self-titled TBS late-night show “Conan” in June 2021, WarnerMedia announced Tuesday.

The announcement marks an end to an eleven-year run for O’Brien on the cable network. His travel specials, “Conan Without Borders,” will continue to air on TBS going forward. In addition, O’Brien has signed a deal with HBO Max for a new weekly variety series, though no premiere date has been set for that series.

With the announcement, “Full Frontal With Samantha Bee” will be the sole late-night show on TBS. That series was renewed for a fifth season last year.

“In 1993 Johnny Carson gave me the best advice of my career: ‘As soon as possible, get to a streaming platform,'” O’Brien said. “I’m thrilled that I get to continue doing whatever the hell it is I do on HBO Max, and I look forward to a free subscription.”




O’Brien famously came to TBS in 2010 from NBC. There he had hosted “Late Night with Conan O’Brien” for over 15 years before he was tapped to take over “The Tonight Show” from Jay Leno. However, after NBC attempted to move the primetime series “The Jay Leno Show” to late-night and push back “The Tonight Show” to the 12:05 a.m. timeslot, O’Brien quit the show rather than “participate in what I honestly believe is its destruction,” he said at the time.

“28 years is a monumental achievement in late-night television,” said Brett Weitz, general manager for TNT, TBS and truTV. “We’re incredibly proud of the groundbreaking work that Conan and his team have accomplished during the 10 years at TBS and are so glad that we will continue to have his presence on our air with the ‘Conan Without Borders’ specials. We celebrate his success and are glad to see it grow across our WarnerMedia family.”

O’Brien has filmed multiple travel specials since 2015, though the first to be branded under the “Conan Without Borders” banner came in 2017. To date, he has filmed specials in countries such as Mexico, Israel, Haiti, Greenland, and Cuba.

“Conan’s unique brand of energetic, relatable, and at times, absurdist, comedy has charmed late-night audiences for nearly three decades. We can’t wait to see what he and the rest of Team Coco will dream up for this brand new, variety format each week,” said Casey Bloys, chief content officer of HBO and HBO Max.

News of the end of “Conan” on TBS comes as the cable industry faces increasingly stiff competition from streaming services. Multiple media giants, such as NBCUniversal and Disney, have undergone restructuring in the past year to emphasize their streaming product over linear channels.