Conan Premiers November 8th on TBS

[Kaslo]

Holy Shit, ExciteBike On.

[Insanecyclone]

[Kaslo]

http://teamcoco.com/sites/default/fi...esize_redo.gif

[Mots]

I was hoping someone would make that after last nights show. hahaha

[Kaslo]

I was hoping someone would make that after last nights show. hahaha

haha TeamCoco posted it to twitter just now.

[6souls]

Sorry for this huge necro, but I think this interview snippet is worth the post about Conan's future.

Turner Entertainment chief creative officer, Kevin Reilly, talks about a new direction for Conan
Shits on Conan's YouTube fanbase & Conan's plan to cater more to it

The late-night landscape had grown increasingly crowded, and unless you’re Jimmy Fallon you have little to tout with regard to ratings. What kind of future do you see for Conan?

I sat down with Conan at dinner a week before I announced [I was taking] the job and I felt like he was toiling a little bit in obscurity. ... I said, 'We have to shake it up.' We started talking about things and shortly thereafter he started doing those remotes. The Cuba show was incredible. [TBS announced Thursday he’d be heading to Qatar with Michelle Obama.] There's a lot of people who watch the show who don't watch it on TBS.

And there lies the challenge of late night …

The 10 million views on YouTube are … worthless to us as a business. It's part of the Comedy Central challenge: when you do sketch and talk, it's more vulnerable to people watching the segments on your phone. Not to say narrative is completely immune, but it's a lot easier to watch the two segments than it is to watch 90 minutes.

Could you envision a future with Samantha Bee, who will soon launch her TBS show Full Frontal, but not Conan?

No, I don't want that at all. I want Conan around for a long time. The question I'm fascinated with in the next number of years is this online thing that he's got — is there a way to keep that going in some fashion that it becomes part of a more valuable brand rather than posting the worthless calories on YouTube? Maybe it's not a five-night-a-week show. He's talking about it. That's not anything we're doing in the short run.

http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/liv...-narcos-853349

[Anoat]

TBS is altering Conan to be a weekly show instead of a nightly show. No firm date on when the change will take place but it will be in 2017. The reality is Conan has been getting terrible ratings since the move to TBS, and this is a much needed revamp.

[Salodin]

Yeah, I see nothing wrong with what he said. 10 million tube views is nothing in terms of revenue for an actual company. Youtube personalities can live off it, but it's no sound business plan for TBS. No one seems to be with Coco anymore.