Thursday, January 8, 2009

Conan cuts back to 4 new shows a week

Longtime "Late Night with Conan O'Brien" viewers will recall that for years, Conan did four new shows a week, with a rerun on Monday. He switched to five shows a week in September 2006, according to this TVBarn.com item: "Faced with the almost inevitable switch to a five-nights-a-week schedule when he takes over 'The Tonight Show' in three years, Conan O'Brien is increasing his load by one night a week starting this season."

Well, now that he's practically out the door, Conan appears to be returning to his old format of four new shows a week plus a repeat (on Friday, not Monday this time around). Tomorrow's show will feature a rerun from Sept. 10 with Curtis Jackson, Kaitlin Olson and Gym Class Heroes, while Friday the 16th's rebroadcast from Sept. 26 has guests Brooke Shields, Robert Reich and Amos Lee.

1 comments :

  1. James Langdell said...

    Before Conan took on Late Night, Latterman had done no more than four new shows a week. When Conan started out, he didn't have old shows to rerun, so he kept up a five-show-a-week pace for the first few years. Then, Conan was a guest on Tom Snyder's competing show, where they came to an agreememt to not work so hard and to both scale back to four new shows a week. I think Craig Kilborn made just four shows a week. But Craig Ferguson has kept up a five show pace since the start. I assumed that Conan's switch to a new show every night was to compete better with Ferguson as well as to ramp up for Tonight.

    Great to find this new part of your site, Sue.