When will the new Conan OBrien late-night talk show on TBS start?”
The late-night guessing game is over, with a startling twist: Conan O’Brien has chosen TBS as his future talk-show home. Expected to debut in November, the as-yet-untitled show will return O’Brien to the air after an absence that began in January when he abruptly left NBC, his employer of 17 years. O’Brien’s new program will air Mondays through Thursdays at 11 p.m. Eastern, which will shift “Lopez Tonight,” starring George Lopez, from 11 p.m. EDT to midnight. O’Brien’s show will originate from Los Angeles, where he moved from New York for his short-lived stint hosting “The Tonight Show.” For the second half of each show, he will face off against Jay Leno, who replaced him. The five-year contract gives O’Brien ownership of the show, according to a person familiar with the deal who spoke on condition of anonymity because the person was not authorized to publicly discuss it. Upon TBS’ announcement Monday, O’Brien quickly fired out a celebratory tweet. “The good news: I will be doing a sho
In a surprise development, short-lived “Tonight Show” host O’Brien has signed with basic-cable channel TBS to do a talk show that is expected to debut in November. O’Brien’s hourlong, yet-to-be-titled show will air Mondays through Thursdays at 11 p.m., serving as a lead-in for George Lopez’s “Lopez Tonight,” which will be moved back an hour. Said O’Brien, “In three months I’ve gone from network television to Twitter to performing live in theaters, and now I’m headed to basic cable. My plan is working perfectly.” According to a statement released by TBS, O’Brien and the network began talks in earnest just last week, after Lopez called him to ask that he consider joining the network’s late-night lineup. Lopez is in his first season as a TBS talk-show host. It long had been speculated that O’Brien would end up on another broadcast network, specifically Fox, which does not have a late-night presence on weeknights.
