This Week in the Mercury
Tuesday, January 12, 2010
TV You Tell 'Em, Conan!
Posted by Andrew R Tonry on Tue, Jan 12, 2010 at 3:22 PM
O'Brien says he will leave, rather than be bumped back:
In a statement Tuesday afternoon, Mr. O’Brien said, “I sincerely believe that delaying the ‘Tonight Show’ into the next day to accommodate another comedy program will seriously damage what I consider to be the greatest franchise in the history of broadcasting. ‘The Tonight Show’ at 12:05 simply isn’t the ‘Tonight Show.’”
On Sunday night's Simpsons documentary O'Brien said, jokingly, he'd be happy to be paid $1 per year plus red wine to live out on a villa and just dream up weird things for Mr. Burns to do. Well, if the worst happens, that's a pretty good consolation...
Bang on wizard.
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I hope he has a clause in his contract to be paid out in full for being sooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo
fucked around.
Coco rules!!!!
The Chin drooooolz!
fucked around.
Coco rules!!!!
The Chin drooooolz!
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I read something earlier about a contract clause that has, unfortunately been fulfilled, though sort of only on a technicality:
" NBC executive said that Mr. O’Brien would no longer be owed any of the $45 million that NBC had agreed to pay him as a penalty in case he never got a chance to host “The Tonight Show.” That would leave the cost for NBC as whatever amount was agreed to as a settlement of the contract.
The NBC executive said that Mr. O’Brien was making considerably less than the $20 million a year previously reported and put the figure at “closer to $10 million a year than $20 million.”"
source: http://www.nytimes.com/2010/01/12/business…
" NBC executive said that Mr. O’Brien would no longer be owed any of the $45 million that NBC had agreed to pay him as a penalty in case he never got a chance to host “The Tonight Show.” That would leave the cost for NBC as whatever amount was agreed to as a settlement of the contract.
The NBC executive said that Mr. O’Brien was making considerably less than the $20 million a year previously reported and put the figure at “closer to $10 million a year than $20 million.”"
source: http://www.nytimes.com/2010/01/12/business…
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