Is Cocos TBS move the future of television?”
Apr. 12 2010 – 5:25 pm Coco’s TBS move: It’s the future of television By MATTHEW GREENBERG American comedian Conan O’Brien at “Stand… Pale Force will return to your TV screens wiser … and earlier. (Image via Wikipedia) You really have to feel for the boneheads at NBC who (mis)handled the whole Conan-Leno debacle this winter. Putting Leno on at 10 p.m. screwed their affiliates. But letting Conan O’Brien go may have just put another nail in coffin of the network broadcast model. The chattering classes and “inside sources” long assumed that Conan would end up on the Fox network, but he confounded expectations and announced today that he’ll resurrect his late-night talk show on the basic cable TBS, part of the Turner broadcasting empire. Surprising? Maybe — but not when you remember that this was a man who played good corporate soldier for 16 years — and then told NBC to go fuck itself when they asked him to play nice with Jay Leno one time too many. The problem with Fox was the same p
