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Exclusive: SCRUBS and COUGAR TOWN Showrunner Bill Lawrence Weighs in on NBC’s Late Night Woes

After seven years of watching the Peacock Network mishandle, not to mention unceremoniously cancel our beloved SCRUBS, creator Bill Lawrence knows a thing or two about bumbling NBC executives. Which is probably why he summed up his reaction to Conan O’Brien’s current situation in a media scrum following the “Comedy Showrunners Panel” at the Television [...]

0 Posted in Bill Lawrence, Conan O'Brien, TCA Press Tour

Breaking: Conan O’Brien Releases a Statement, Rejects Proposed 12:05AM Timeslot

This just in: An end to the speculation, with Conan O’Brien releasing the following statement with regards to whether or not he would accept NBC’s proposal to move his show to 12:05 following Jay Leno: People of Earth: In the last few days, I’ve been getting a lot of sympathy calls, and I want to [...]

18 Posted in Conan O'Brien

Question of the Day

Is NBC robbing peter to pay paul in an effort to attract eyeballs to their new one-two combo of THE TONIGHT SHOW WITH CONAN O’BRIEN and LATE NIGHT WITH JIMMY FALLON? That’s the question this TV Addict is left asking after waking up for the fifth consecutive morning in a row to a deluge of [...]

2 Posted in Conan O'Brien, Jimmy Fallon

THE TONIGHT SHOW WITH CONAN O’BRIEN: The Good, The Bad & The Ugly

The Good: Not that we really had any doubts, but last night Conan O’Brien assured fans and critics alike that the franchise Johnny built and Jay kept running smoothly over the past seventeen years will be in good hands for, oh say, the next seventeen. From the solid opening that had O’Brien pulling a Forrest [...]

27 Posted in Conan O'Brien

Our Summer Survival Guide Day 1: TV

If you’re anything like this TV Addict (read: hopelessly addicted to television), you may have found yourself with an alarming amount of free time on your hands since last Thursday — the day our beloved television season officially came to a close. Deep breath, don’t panic, September is just around the corner. Or so we [...]

13 Posted in ABC Family, Conan O'Brien, hung, Summer Survival Guide, Weeds

Good, Bad and Ugly News for TV Fans

Good News: ONE TREE HILL got some serious media exposure in today’s NY Times. Bad News: For glamorizing teen pregnancy and being wildly unrealistic. Ugly News: Thanks to a never-ending WGA Strike, we’re still watching! [see link] Good News: CBS has teamed up with Canada’s CTV to shoot 13 episodes of a cop show titled [...]

5 Posted in Conan O'Brien, CTV, One Tree Hill, Random Musings, Veronica Mars, WGA Writer's Strike

You Be the Critic: The Return of Late Night TV

After two months off the air in support of the WGA strike, LENO, CONAN, LETTERMAN, FERGUSON and KIMMEL all returned to the airwaves with brand new episodes. Which begs the obvious questions: Am I the only TV Addict who thought LENO was the most entertaining host of the night? Was anyone else incredibly disappointed my [...]

10 Posted in ABC, CBS, Conan O'Brien, NBC, WGA Writer's Strike

Conan Takes on STUDIO 60

Check out LATE NIGHT WITH CONAN O’BRIEN’S take on Aaron Sorkin’s STUDIO 60 “Aaron Sorkin: Studio 6A on the 6th Floor of Rockefeller Plaza”. Not only is the clip hilarious, it hopefully will remind the suits at NBC that they have yet to broadcast the second half of STUDIO 60′s season. Yes NBC, we haven’t [...]

5 Posted in Conan O'Brien, NBC, Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip