411mania.com: Movies - [TV] Conan Spends NBC's Money Until The End:
"Conan O'Brien continued to spend lots of NBC's money right up to the end of his run on the network. The Roots drummer Questlove, who is also the house band leader for Late Night with Jimmy Fallon, said that NBC paid out $500,000 for Tom Hanks to come out to Lovely Rita by the Beatles."
Sunday, January 24, 2010
Future at Fox far from certain for Conan O'Brien
Z on TV: Future at Fox far from certain for Conan O'Brien - Sun critic David Zurawik writes about the business, culture and craziness of television - baltimoresun.com:
"After a surreal week of high emotion and comic abuse of NBC on 'The Tonight Show with Conan O'Brien,' the 46-year-old host is gone for good from the network's airwaves after only seven months in Johnny Carson's old chair.
But the story of this misguided adventure in prime-time and late-night programming by NBC's top brass is far from over. The narrative of O'Brien being pushed out of the job he prepared himself for over five years to make room for Jay Leno, who failed miserably in prime time, demands some discussion about what happens next to the redhead."
"After a surreal week of high emotion and comic abuse of NBC on 'The Tonight Show with Conan O'Brien,' the 46-year-old host is gone for good from the network's airwaves after only seven months in Johnny Carson's old chair.
But the story of this misguided adventure in prime-time and late-night programming by NBC's top brass is far from over. The narrative of O'Brien being pushed out of the job he prepared himself for over five years to make room for Jay Leno, who failed miserably in prime time, demands some discussion about what happens next to the redhead."
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