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I am so sorry :(

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You are admittedly going Leno out of spite. Who's the real fool?

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That crowd reaction is insane:

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Whether I press "05" for NBC or "47" for TBS on my cable remote... I'm still pressing two buttons to watch Conan. Wow, such a difference (not).

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I'm shocked that Conan would go back to TV at all, to be honest. Cable is a dying industry. It'll be around for years to come, no doubt about that, but eventually we'll all be watching video over the internet.

I guess he wanted the money. Can't blame him.

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Oh my god! Conan is the devil! I can't believe he did this to Lopez! We should all boycott his show! It's as bad as Leno!

:rolleyes: Funny how the fanboys don't complain about him.

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The difference is that Lopez himself invited Conan over .....

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I think it came down to two factors on O'Brien choosing TBS for his new 2300 hours ET show:

1) He doesn't force the Fox network to do the very expensive process of clearing time at 11:00 pm locally for the show for every Fox affiliate. People forget that in the spring of 1993, even with David Letterman's name recognition it took a LOT of convincing (and some arm-twisting!) by CBS to get most of its affiliates to carry The Late Show with David Letterman by the time that show premiered.

2) TBS is available in both standard definiition and high definition forms on satellite TV and most cable systems across the USA, which means most anyone with a cable subscription can see the show anyway.

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Lopez has fanboys?

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Maybe so, I'm not even interested enough to read about it, perhaps it's true.

The point is though, that even if Conan did bump him, or even got the network to fire him, you wouldn't hear a thing about it.

Lopez?

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wm_lopez has a talk show? Why haven't I been watching this?

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So in a hypothetical situation, Conan or his fans are dicks?

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Really? Is that the point? I take the point to be more of being uninformed and trolling. :rolleyes:

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It's not like the two are mutually exclusive. Conan's show streamed on Hulu when he was on NBC. Lopez Tonight is available on the TBS site, albeit broken up into clips. So Conan, being on TBS, will be viewable on the internet as well, not to mention possibly VOD from various cable companies.

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So? I watch Saved by the Bell before work every morning! Unless I'm late then it's Fresh Prince.

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That's a good point. Since Conan now owns his show, he can basically do whatever he wants with it as long as he honors the five-year deal to broadcast it on TBS.

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Hadn't heard about the five-year part of the deal before your post. Here's the source:
http://articles.latimes.com/2010/apr...an13-2010apr13

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People said the same thing about AMC before they started airing Mad Men and Breaking Bad. I never watched AMC before those shows. Now, I watch AMC, but only for those shows. If there's a show I want to watch, I'll watch it. It doesn't matter to me what channel it's on, as long as it's a channel I get.

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LOL.

Looks like somebody tried to make a funny and was quickly shot down so had to go with hypothetical humor. Oh, and then threw in a mention of not caring even though he bothered to post in the thread.

These scenarios always make me chuckle.

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He's being allowed to own this show and material, unlike just "working" for a show already owned by a network. So he can stand to make more money than had he stayed on The Tonight Show.

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I don't see why poeple give a shit he's going to be on TBS. Set your DVR, watch the show... I don't understand why seeing a TBS logo instead of any other matters.

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I care slightly, because I don't have cable, but I'm rarely up that late anyway. (I don't care that he's on TBS specifically though)

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I enjoy watching TBS and very happy that Conan will be back on TV. And I think it shows a lot of class that he did not pursue the offers till he got a green light of support from George Lopez.

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People are being absolutely retarded over the fact that he's going with TBS. "Oh if it were FOX or TNT I'd watch... but TBS? Forget it." Does anyone really care more about the channel over the program they're watching? If, say, "Mad Men" was broadcast on WGN instead of AMC, would it automatically be an inferior show? Are people really that idiotic? ABC was once viewed as a third-rate, inferior network too... 40 years ago. Get out of the Stone Age already. :lol:

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I'm sure Conan got a GREAT deal for himself, but being on cable isn't yet the same as being on one of the big 4. Despite the fact that cable is hurting ABC, NBC, CBS and FOX, these networks all get more viewers because people are tuned into them for local news and not everyone has cable.

For me, I don't have cable anymore. I just don't find it worth the $1000/year price when almost all the shows I watch are on local channels or the Internet. That's why I won't watch Conan now. Because I can't. :(

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Short of it going to Fox it was going to end up on cable anyway even if it wasn't TBS. While basic cable isn't the big 4, it still hits a pretty vast audience. Like you said, you do a lot of viewing on the internet and I'm bet money it'll be available legally streaming on either Hulu or a related site.

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I'm still waiting for anyone to explain exactly why TBS sucks so bad that they would not watch Conan's show simply because it's on TBS. I genuinely don't get it and would like to understand.

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Of course you're interested enough to read about it. You opened this thread, read something, and responded. If you weren't interested in this situation, you would never have opened the thread to begin with, let alone participated in it. You'll need to come up with another excuse for your ignorance that is more believable.

That may be the emptiest "point" I've ever seen on these forums, as it's completely hypothetical and has no basis in reality.

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This is beyond me as well. What difference does it make??

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I remember what the local CBS station aired before Letterman had his show, they showed M*A*S*H reruns.

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Yes. I no longer use Tide because the grocery store moved it to the picnic supplies aisle. Sure, they also moved the laundry sign, but it's still the damn picnic aisle! :mad:

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Some posts in this thread remind me of this scene:

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Insane compared to what? The people browsing at the public library? Yes. The crowd reaction at [insert name of famous celebrity/band here] making a public appearance to their fans? Not really insane. Sounds like the camera person had a shrieker in their midst.

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He had a two-minute standing ovation before he could get a word in edgewise... What is your definition of insane??

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Certainly not something that you would see at the opening of a tour of any big name star.

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And Leno's new band leader is...

http://digs.by/9SIcDA

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Some more AMAZING crowd shot footage from last night's show; it just goes to show you how rare Conan (and Craig Ferguson) are. I could never picture a Leno, a Letterman, or even the late great, Carson going out on stage and having that much fun:

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It's killing me to not watch those videos, but I'm worried there will be a bunch of skit crossover on the tour and don't want to ruin anything I'll get to see live. :(

Going around with all the writers should allow them to stay pretty topical and current though. Which is great!

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I'm hoping that maybe, the NYC show gets released commercially. Tickets sold out way too fast and traveling to Eugene the other night just wasn't feasible. I really think he'd have come to Portland instead, but Kevin Smith was booked in town for the same night and had been for some time.

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I'm disappointed that too many people still give this :down: to the idea of "Team CoCo" joining TBS.

As I said earlier, we're forgetting that TBS is generally available in the Extended Basic or Extended Digital Basic tier of most cable systems and available in most packages for DirecTV and Dish Network in both standard definition and high definition channels. As such, O'Brien is going to have a potentially very large audience anyway when his new show starts in November 2010.