[Sttim]

can someone fill me up what's going on exactly?

Well it all started when Conan crashed his Escalade... Oh no wait maybe that's another story.

The full story goes something like this...

It all really started in the early 90s when Johnny Carson was readying to quit the Tonight Show. Now common wisdom would have suggested that the show should have gone to the guy who had been working for NBC on Late Night for 10 years (David Letterman). Seems like that would be the natural progression but instead the network decided to go with Jay Leno a newer face who had guest hosted the Tonight Show a few times. Acrimony followed and Letterman left NBC and went to CBS where he held a respectable lead over the Tonight Show until Jay got an interview with post arrest Hugh Grant since then they've taken an even share of the audiences. Conan was Letterman's replacement which worked cool for a decade or so.

Then five years ago Conan decided he wanted to leave NBC so NBC said no don't go look we want you to stay and plus we don't want to go through the mess we did last time with the hand over of the tonight show so if you stay we will give you the Tonight Show in five years time. Which he agreed to.

Anyway fast forward a few years and NBC prime time dramas suck in the ratings shows like My Own Worst Enemy get canceled before they even finish the first series. So ever clever Jeff Zucker (who was responsible for these **** shows) thinks I have an idea why not pretty much give Jay back his old show but put it on in prime time. It'll cost less than producing all these dramas and will get better ratings. It turned out that Jay's show never did get the better ratings and it was killing all the local affiliates advertising revenue (Local NBC stations run local news at 10/11PM) who started piling the pressure on NBC. So Zucker decides the best bet is lets start running programs again in prime time and move Jay back to 11:35PM. Figure perhaps Conan and Jimmy Fallon probably won't mind us pushing them back and making the Tonight Show the tomorrow show.

Of course the outcome of this is to piss Conan off just as much as Letterman was all those years back but to do it publicly instead. It also makes NBC and Zucker look like a bunch of bumbling idiots. They now essentially have 5 empty time slots a week and nothing constructive or tested to fill it with. Even worse for them Conan most likely will walk to FOX and start his shows 35 minutes before Jay effectively stealing the NBC's entire much sought after 18-35 year old demographic. In other words they shot themselves in the foot in attempting to avoid the mess they created back in '92 they've done it all over again in glorious fashion.

I'm with Conan for the simple fact he stated quite well he wasn't given the chance that Jay was given back in the 90s, had to follow on from a show which was pulling bad lead in ratings and seriously what chance did he have when they've already more or less broadcast the Tonight Show an hour and a half earlier?