15 Years Later, Conan O’Brien’s Writers and Andy Richter Remember Conan’s Final ‘Tonight Show’
“People of Earth...”
That was the lighthearted opening to the otherwise serious statement Tonight Show host Conan O’Brien released to the public on Tuesday, January 12, 2010. In it, he had addressed the rumors that had been swirling since the previous Thursday, when the news leaked that Jay Leno’s short-lived, poorly-rated 10 p.m. talk show was being canceled by NBC and that the network was planning to move Leno back to his previous time slot of 11:35 p.m., where he’d hosted The Tonight Show for 17 years, most of them at number one in the ratings.
As for Conan, he, and The Tonight Show, would move to 12:05 a.m. It was a move that NBC felt was fair since Conan, with just seven months on the job as Tonight Show host, was still struggling to build his new audience.
But in an era when time slots were still king,...
That was the lighthearted opening to the otherwise serious statement Tonight Show host Conan O’Brien released to the public on Tuesday, January 12, 2010. In it, he had addressed the rumors that had been swirling since the previous Thursday, when the news leaked that Jay Leno’s short-lived, poorly-rated 10 p.m. talk show was being canceled by NBC and that the network was planning to move Leno back to his previous time slot of 11:35 p.m., where he’d hosted The Tonight Show for 17 years, most of them at number one in the ratings.
As for Conan, he, and The Tonight Show, would move to 12:05 a.m. It was a move that NBC felt was fair since Conan, with just seven months on the job as Tonight Show host, was still struggling to build his new audience.
But in an era when time slots were still king,...
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