NBC fired Conan O’Brien as host of the Tonight Show because he couldn’t beat David Letterman, something Jay Leno had done for years. So NBC made a tough choice, and even though they would lose hundreds of millions of dollars, they decided to bring Leno back so he could be number 1 in late night again! And the plan worked! For 6 days!
For the first time since Jay Leon returned to 11:30, The Tonight Show trailed Late Show in the early metered market numbers (3.5 rating for Letterman versus 3.2 for Leno). In the 25 markets with local People Meters Leno held a slim edge with adults 18-49, but he did yesterday as well and when the numbers for the broader national market were factored in, Late Show wound up leading Tonight Show in the 18-49 demo, too.
This is no surprise of course, because it’s NBC. Their own website (click the “shows” tab) is filled with such sadness and failure, it’s almost like they’re being sarcastic. They have 12 “Classic Shows”, and two of those aired on CBS. Every single show on their “Recent Favorites” was canceled almost instantly, and I never even heard of 4 of them.
There are only two qualifications to be on a list called “Current Shows”. Be “current”, and a “show” a viewer could watch. NBC lists the Olympics twice and the Golden Globes, which are neither. I don’t mean to brag but I think I could do a better job at running NBC than the people they have now. I at least understand where I am in time, which is more than they could say.
Conan O’Briens final ‘Tonight Show’ was two weeks ago tomorrow, and last week NBC managed to go all 5 days without embarrassing themselves in some new fascinating way. It was the beginning of a new era, one where they would stop looking like incompetent retards, an era that would last until today, around 1:30pm.
That’s when Questlove (the drummer for The Roots and the Jimmy Fallon show) shared NBCs idea of a black feast with the world on his Twitter page.
I think it’s a cute idea actually. It’s a fun theme. Maybe for Breast Cancer Awareness Month they can have Flat Iron Steak and stop serving milk. And for AIDS Awareness they could have hot dogs with 5 or 6 wieners crammed into the buns. And for Holocaust Remembrance they could serve nothing and charge you $8,000 for it.
ANNA NICOLE SMITH - if the actions of Howard K. Stern directly led to her death, he could be charged with secondary murder or involuntary manslaughter, which is less serious, even though it sounds way worse. “Slaughter”. It's like he hacked her to pieces with a machete. (source = e!)
NBC – averaged just 6 million prime time viewers last week, and even lost the 18-34 demo to a Spanish cable channel. Oh I know. I'm shocked. Winning “Worlds Greatest Grandpa” according to your tshirt is more impressive than being the lead in “Chuck”. (source = defamer)
PENELOPE CRUZ – I thought this was old, but the Sun has a headline about Penelope Cruz topless in some movie. I didn’t read the article because I got this intriguing email: “Your rod will be faultless weapon. Women will be your resigned slaves.” And they link to the pills that will turn my cock into a baseball bat of seduction. I was skeptical at first, but the site has a picture of a woman with a clipboard. Her endorsement really put me at ease. (unedited pic here, source = sun UK)
