What followed was a boisterous, angry, frequently hilarious public battle that had millions of astonished viewers glued to their sets. Conan’s collapse, meanwhile, opened an unexpected door of opportunity for rival David Letterman. Leno’s show, panned by critics, dragged down the ratings-and the profits-of NBC’s affiliates, while ratings for Conan’s new Tonight show plummeted to the lowest levels in history. It took, in fact, only a few months for the dire predictions to come true. When NBC decided to move Jay Leno into prime time to make room for Conan O’Brien to host the Tonight show-a job he had been promised five years earlier-skeptics anticipated a train wreck for the ages. You can read this before The War for Late Night: When Leno Went Early and Television Went Crazy PDF EPUB full Download at the bottom.Ī dramatic account of the politics and personalities behind NBC’s calamitous attempt to reinvent late-night television. Here is a quick description and cover image of book The War for Late Night: When Leno Went Early and Television Went Crazy written by Bill Carter which was published in 2010–. 'What does Jay have on you?' Conan asked, his voice still low, his tone still even.Brief Summary of Book: The War for Late Night: When Leno Went Early and Television Went Crazy by Bill Carter That this now seemed like a late-night pileup - three shows with monologues lined up end to end - was the implication no one had really addressed.įinally Conan did have something he really wanted to say, something that had almost burned a hole in his chest. The NBC guys didn't really have an answer for that other than what Conan had already been doing: his own monologue.
When they replied that it seemed likely he would have only one guest, Conan said, 'OK.
'At 11:35 Jay's going to come out and do twenty jokes. 'So at least now, Jay does his show, but there's the break of the news, and that's kind of the reset button,' Conan said to Gaspin and Graboff. “The one thought Conan had on the spot about the half hour at 11:35 was that it would likely exacerbate the problem he already had with Leno.
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