Thursday, January 21, 2010

THAT'S WHY HIS HAIR IS SO BIG, IT'S FULL OF SECRETS: So, our long national nightmare is apparently over--CoCo and NBC are parting ways. Some interesting tidbits:
  • Conan and the staff have apparently expressed interest in subleasing from NBC the current studio/offices.
  • Conan is apparently getting even more money than his contract termination clause required, both because of the bad PR and because Leno's termination provision was even bigger.
  • Conan's apparently going to put a substantial chunk of his personal settlement funds into a fund to take care of his staffers.
  • There's a non-disparagement/media blackout clause, which prevents Conan from bashing NBC in interviews or doing interviews at all. Sorry--no Conan/Letterman matchup yet.
  • Conan can be on the air in September on another network.
That said, Conan's pulling out all the stops for final shows, with Friday's show giving us Will Ferrell, Tom Hanks, and Neil Young (we assume not performing "Pants On The Ground"), and giving NBC new characters, which "aren't so much funny as they are crazy expensive." (Amusingly, it is quite funny.)