Conan O'Brien: The Latest Sacrifice of the Dying Economy

So if you haven't heard, Conan O'Brien has been forced out of his position as host of The Tonight Show, on account of a ratings downturn since Leno left the show. Jay Leno is supposed to take back hosting duties of his show after O'Brien has left, and his show, which has been getting even lower ratings, will be canceled. In the second of two disappointing breakup stories this week that have pissed me off, I must repeat my immortal act of referring to a certain studio (NBC) as a non-studio. I can't really support NBC at all anymore, mostly because they have only one good show (The Office) and I can watch that on Hulu.

NBC has never been known for having good ratings, nor have they been known for making good decisions. For example, Heroes should no longer be on the air by now, but it's still going for some reason. And now they make this BS move and knock Conan to the crowded curb of unemployment. I look at the facts of this confrontation, and keep coming out on Conan's side. For one thing, in Jay Leno's first few months of hosting The Tonight Show, he didn't get as good ratings as Johnny Carson. When Conan took hold of The Tonight Show, NBC immediately signed him on to do a talk show at 10 p.m. which ultimately turned out to not be funny, and to not get good ratings.

And now, once again NBC is bending over for Jay Leno to get what he wants. This may have simply been a conspiracy all along. 5 years ago Conan signs on to leave The Late Show, and join The Tonight Show, and NBC planned to write Jay Leno crappy jokes so that his show would get low ratings, and they would rely on the bad economy to take care of Conan, and all along they have planned this all just to get Conan off television forever. Well there is one thing that they didn't count on, and that's FOX.

FOX seems to be working really hard to sign Conan O'Brien on to do a late night show, seeing as he won't be on NBC anymore. I really hope he works out that deal, because if he does then I don't have a reason to watch NBC anymore. The Office is on the same time as Fringe, and Saturday Night Live is on kind of late on a saturday. I mean, who stays up late on a saturday to watch a comedy show, when they can stay up late on a weekday to watch a comedy show? Who does that? So thank you for indulging my endless ragings on the stupidity of non-studios.