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Old 01-12-2010, 10:52 PM   #30
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Originally Posted by What Would Kevin Do? View Post
Honestly, this is the fucking Late Shift all over again.
It's starting to look like it. For example, Leno denying that he has any knowledge of what is going on, despite allegedly being heavily involved in the negotiations. Conan's not the sort of guy who will role over, though. If NBC fucks him over, I think he'll be more than happy to push back, and leave for another network. I could see this ending up as just being Leno and Fallon -- which would absolutely suck, say, opposed to a Letterman/Conan duo.

NBC fucks good things over. They have fumble so many of their sitcoms, their dramas, and they've really earned the fall from grace they have received. I can understand they want to beat Letterman, but if they lose Conan in the process? They're going to lose their best talk show personality to another network, which will just strengthen the forces against NBC.

What network is Letterman on? CBS? With Conan chasing some of Leno's audience back to Letterman (predominantly "old people,") a lot of them might not go back to Leno out of a new habit. Fallon has got no chance against Conan. When it comes to the zany, often senseless college humour, nobody in late night does it better than Coco. If Letterman can beat Leno, and Conan can beat Fallon, what does NBC have?

Besides, Conan is an acquired taste. NBC should know this through their experiences with Late Night. Not only did Conan have to get used to working on a talk show, but talk show audiences and viewers had to get used to the style and overall less-processed honesty Conan brought to the interviewer's chair. This awkwardness eventually grew into charm, but obviously a shift to a much wider audience would cause need for a re-introductory process.
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