Wednesday, January 13, 2010
Television People of Earth: It's Just Television
Posted by Amy Atkins on Wed, Jan 13, 2010 at 9:59 AM
NBC network executives, journalists and bloggers are behaving as though the White House has a giant spaceship full of evil aliens hovering over it. While in the eyes of NBC chairman Jeff Gaspin, funnyman Conan O'Brien and destined-to-be-a-sidekick-forever Andy Richter, it may seem like the end of the world, it's not. The shifts in NBC's late-night talk show lineup are not even one of the four horsemen of the apocalypse.
In an open letter addressed to People of the Earth, O'Brien announced that pushing The Tonight Show to a 12:05 a.m. start time, would lead to "the destruction of the show."
It's a tough scenario for O'Brien and the people who work on his show to consider, but being on television a half-hour later is not the end of the world. You know what is earth shattering? An earthquake. Like the one in Haiti yesterday.
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Amy, to suggest that Conan really meant being on a half hour later would be the end of the world is absurd. He was putting emphasis on the fact that the tonight show has a long, storied, tradition associated with it. Part of tha tradition is airing at 11:35 pm. Changing the time slot would disrupt that tradition. The man takes pride in his work and feels that disrupting this great late night tradition would be an injustice, and a disgrace to the show. If you can't see that, you shouldn't be writing news articles; and if you can, then what was the point of this article?
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