This week in new DVD & Blu-ray releases for October 26th, 2010 tallies in the 300′s. An example of titles coming out is the timeless (no pun) classic, Back to the Future on Blu-ray, Alien Anthology on Blu-ray, Sex and the City 2, and the animated series Hetalia; Axis Powers. What I anticipate to be a popular release is the four decades of The Tonight Show!
Check out the favorites:
Movies on DVD/Blu-ray
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Alien Anthology [Blu-ray]
Back to the Future: 25th Anniversary Trilogy Starring Michael J. Fox, Christopher Lloyd, Lea Thompson, et al.
Road to Christmas Starring Jennifer Grey, Megan Park, and Clark Gregg
Sex and the City 2 Starring Sarah Jessica Parker, Kim Cattrall, Kristin Davis, et al.
The Girl Who Played With Fire Starring Noomi Rapace and Michael Nyqvist
Winter’s Bone Starring Jennifer Lawrence and John Hawkes
You Don’t Know Jack Starring Al Pacino, Susan Sarandon, and Danny Huston
I’ve been wondering for a while if all the hub-a-bub with what happened with Conan O’Brien was worth it when NBC hit the eject button, destroying Conan’s dreams so they could reinstatet Jay Leno.
It can’t be a complete loss. They’re still narrowly beating Letterman most weeks but still, was it worth it to give give Conan O’Brien nothing but new material on NBC? Or was it worth it to alienate Conan’s fans, or just opponents of the tactics that were demonstrated by NBC?
Conan O’Brien is in the wild and out from under the death-like grip of Zucker and NBC. I presume that’s a good thing but the world is no longer a safe place from Coco.
Or is it?
NBC is paying out just under $50 million in settlement fees, and due to Conan’s loyalty to his production staff, he’s only getting $33 mil of it while the rest goes to his production staff.
Dude, he’s a good guy. I can see why the ratings took off for The Tonight Show during this debacle. He’s made a fan out of me, even if his comedy doesn’t always agree with me.
We can now say goodnight to “The Tonight Show With Conan O’Brien.”
This deal was struck at 3 am on Thursday morning (I’m guessing with the money lawyers make, they better not sleep!) and next week will be repeats of The Tonight Show.
The Conan O’Brien debacle is going to make a great drama skit some day.
Between the wonderful slathering of attention that NBC has given Jay Leno, to the employment threats that Jeff Zucker made, it’s all boiling down to some stupid details.
So the entire reason that Conan got The Tonight Show desk was because of offers coming his way from other networks.
That and Jay being told that he couldn’t sustain being No. 1 back then in 2004 led to Conan coming into one of the most coveted seats in the talk industry.
But with Jay leaving the show, he left earlier than his contract end date but NBC wouldn’t release him. Shocking, I know.
NBC has manned up to Conan O’Brien. He has been dethroned from The Tonight Show, and he’s to sit out from hosting any show until September. But NBC is paying Conan just over $32 million for the unruly dethroning they’ve done to him.
On the crappy side, it looks like NBC will be retaining their intellectual property rights to Conan’s creations… which sucks, but that means a clean slate to start from for Conan.
This The Tonight Show debacle is going to be looked at as a terrible bump in the road for many people involved. Jay Leno, Conan O’Brien & … Jimmy Kimmel?
“I’m taking over all the shows of late night.”
“ABC stands for Always Bump Conan.”
This is the opening bit from Jimmy Kimmel Live, doing an impersonation of Jay Leno and it’s frighteningly good.
After the page break is a 6 minute clip from Jay Leno’s 10 by 10 segment where, of all things, he brings on Jimmy Kimmel!!! What were they thinking?
Now that’s classic… when you’re in the middle of serious legal issues and you’re getting the pooch … well, you know what I mean, what better place to do it than on the platform that NBC gave you, to tear into NBC? AWESOME… you go boy!!!
He did his own version of ripping into NBC with his opening monologue.
Check it out:
“Hello, my name is Conan O’Brien, and I may soon be available for children’s parties. Welcome to NBC. Where our new slogan is, ‘No longer just screwing up prime-time.’
When I was a little boy, I remember watching The Tonight Show with Johnny Carson and thinking ‘Someday, I’m going to host that show for 7 months.’
NBC says they’re planning to have the late night situation worked out before the Winter Olympics start. And trust me, when NBC says something – you can take that to the bank!”
Now I wait. Wait to see what NBC will do. Silencing Conan can be the biggest mistake of their existence as they continue to destroy the time-proven talk show of The Tonight Show.
Why, oh why are they acting like such a panderer to Jay Leno? Why didn’t they just let him retire when he wanted to? What is up with that?
Conan O’Brien has released a statement just now… well, more just than now… I had to type something up first!
He starts out by stating that “Six years ago, I signed a contract with NBC to take over The Tonight
Show in June of 2009.”
“After only seven months, with my Tonight Show in its infancy, NBC has decided to react to their terrible difficulties in prime-time by making a change in their long-established late night schedule.”
“Last Thursday, NBC executives told me they intended to move the Tonight Show to 12:05 to accommodate the Jay Leno Show at 11:35. For 60 years the Tonight Show has aired immediately following the late local news. 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.”
“I cannot participate in what I honestly believe is its destruction.”
This week in new DVD & Blu-ray releases for October 26th, 2010 tallies in the 300′s. An example of titles coming out is the timeless (no pun) classic, Back to the Future on Blu-ray, Alien Anthology on Blu-ray, Sex and the City 2, and the animated series Hetalia; Axis Powers. What I anticipate to be a popular release is the four decades of The Tonight Show!
