Posts with tag ConanObrien
Posted Jul 4th 2008 12:45PM by Annie Wu
Filed under: OpEd, Saturday Night Live, Celebrities, TV Squad Lists, Reality-Free
If there were a way to completely stop people on the Internet from saying, "Why do you keep watching this?
Saturday Night Live hasn't been good since the days of Gildaphil Belushikroyd Normfeyrrell!", I would punch that button (or that person). Thinking a little more optimistically, there can always be better days ahead, for
SNL is forever renewable, with an ever changing cast and crew. The thing that gets the fastest turn-over is the host, who has the opportunity to bring something new and exciting from week to week.
Now that the so-so 33rd season is over, I like to pretend everyone at
SNL has kicked aside all the beach time and BBQ invites to plan something exciting for their return. Picking good hosts is an important part of having a successful season, so I've compiled my own list of nine people that must host, just in case
SNL decides to re-work the entire show based on blog responses. I'm just covering all my bases, all right?
Continue reading Nine people who must host SNL next season
Posted May 8th 2008 3:36PM by Allison Waldman
Filed under: Late Night, Talk Show, Reality-Free
How hot is Craig Ferguson? By my thermometer, he's sizzling. His
Late Late Show has risen up to challenge Conan O'Brien in the Nielsens, he was the emcee at the
White House Press Correspondents dinner -- riffing on W. right to his face! -- and now the publishing world wants his story.
HarperCollins has signed Craig Ferguson to write American on Purpose, the story of his life from small town Scottish boy to big time talk show comic. The book is due to be published in the fall of 2009.
As the title suggests, a big part of the story is Craig's choice to become an
American citizen, which he did earlier this year. Craig said he hopes the book "...will inspire other alcoholic punk rock drummers from Scotland to find their true place in U.S. late night television." Well, I say to that, hooray! The talk show host also cracked, "I wanted to get the story down before I get so old I forget it and start believing the crap on Wikipedia."
Continue reading Craig Ferguson inks deal for memoirs
Posted Apr 28th 2008 8:06AM by Paul Goebel
Filed under: Ask TV Squad, Celebrities, Talk Show, Reality-Free
Now that Jimmy Fallon has been officially announced to replace Conan O' Brien I have a lot of questions. Will the show still tape in New York? Will he have a sidekick? Who will be his band leader? Will he constantly laugh at himself like he used to on Saturday Night Live?
I have always found him to be a very funny guy but when Fallon sat in for Dave Letterman, I have to admit, I was not impressed. He seemed to constantly be fighting with the need to be personable with his guests while still trying to be his ultra-hip self.
Continue reading Stump the King: Jimmy Fallon
Posted Apr 12th 2008 10:09AM by Allison Waldman
Filed under: Late Night, Ratings, Reality-Free
Things are heating up in the late, late night wars. That's the 12:35 AM talk shows, as opposed to the late night 11:35 shows. In the most recent Nielsen ratings,
Craig Ferguson's CBS Late Late Show rated higher than Conan O'Brien's Late Night. That's the first time that's ever happened, and industry analysts are scratching their heads to figure out if this is the pendulum swinging in CBS's direction, or simply a minor glitch in NBC's late night dominance.
NBC has declared that it supports
Conan O'Brien completely and is unconcerned about the gradual shift in the numbers that have been going on for a while. It's in NBC's interest that Conan remain a strong player, especially since he will be taking over the
Tonight show in the near future -- once
Jay Leno's contract comes to an end in 2009. While tipping its cap to Ferguson for the ratings victory, NBC also noted that in the 18-49 demographic, Conan is still the leader in that time slot.
Continue reading Ferguson tops Conan for the first time
Posted Apr 9th 2008 8:35AM by Allison Waldman
Filed under: Late Night, Industry, Reality-Free
So, Disney CEO Robert Iger was having one of those yummy breakfast confabs talking about the future of the network and new media, alternate platforms and all those other fun buzz words about how we're going to be watching shows in the next few years. Then, kind of as an aside, he was asked about Jay Leno. With the end of Leno's era as the host of
The Tonight Show looming -- and Conan O'Brien chomping at the bit to take over --
Mr. Iger said that he wouldn't rule out ABC going after Jay.
Ken Auletta of the
New Yorker pressed Iger about Leno, to which the ABC head man squirmed and said, "It's not something we typically comment on."
Continue reading ABC still interested in Leno
Posted Jul 16th 2007 5:40PM by Michael Maloney
Filed under: NBC, Talent, Industry, Programming, The Apprentice, Celebrities, TCA Press Tour, Casting
Ben Silverman is loosening up as the NBC executive session panel continues.
Asked what he felt was missing from NBC's lineup, the new Co-Chairman, NBC Entertainment and Universal Media Studios, joked he wanted the chimes in the network's jingle turned up by 30%.
Silverman assures a reporter that he and Graboff are comfortable working side by side. "This wasn't an arranged marriage," he says. "We've known each other a long time."
Continue reading NBC executive session part two: Rosie and The Donald? - TCA report
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