Friday, January 08, 2010

Conan Might Move to Fox?

It seems that we might get a three man race when it comes to Late Night.

Comedian Conan O'Brien is mulling his options, including moving to a rival television network, The Wall Street Journal reported Friday in its online edition, citing people familiar with the matter. A person familiar with O'Brien's camp said other networks had approached the comedian since reports emerged that NBC may return Jay Leno to his old timeslot of 11:35 p.m., which would displace O'Brien. One potential suitor is News Corp.'s (NWS 16.34, -0.09, -0.52%) Fox network, which has held discussions with O'Brien's team about the possibility of hosting a late-night show, the newspaper said.

Now this would be interesting to see only of Conan can get a little edgier at Fox. If he is doing the same thing as he does on the Tonight Show (generally stink up the joint) then it might not work. Although Fox might just go "all in" to try to siphon late night advertisers away from CBS and NBC. I mean Conan O'Brien would be much more lucrative to affiliates then reruns of some syndicated crap any day.

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