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Description edit
A dramatic account of the politics and personalities behind NBC's calamitous attempt to reinvent late-night television. When NBC decided to move Jay Leno into prime time to make room for Conan O'Brien to host the Tonight show-a job he had been promised five years earlier-skeptics... read more
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Characters/People edit
- Conan O'Brien: Add a description of this character.
- Jay Leno
- Jeff Ross
- Jeff Zucker
- David Letterman
- Mike Sweeney
- Jimmy Fallon
- Lorne Michaels
- Jeff Gaspin
- Gavin Polone
- Debbie Vickers
- Marc Graboff
- Rick Rosen
- Jimmy Kimmel
- Jon Stewart
- Craig Ferguson
- Jerry Seinfeld
Organizations edit
- NBC: Television network
- TBS: Cable television network
- The Tonight Show: Late night talk show, American institution
First Sentence edit
By eight thirty on the evening of May 19, 2009, a stream of cabs and limos was snaking slowly down West Forty-third Street, pulling up one by one to the doors of the venerable, somewhat shabby Town Hall.
Table of Contents edit
1. Comedy Tonight
2. Sell-By-Date
3. The Conan of it All
4. Landscape at Late Night
5. Seize the Day
6. The Ten O'Clock Solution
7. Conan Rocks
8. Still Dave, After All These Years
9. The Power of Ten
10. The Late Unpleasantness
11. Manifesto Destiny
12. Make Laugh, Not War
Epilogue: We're the Network
Acknowledgements
Index
Authors & Contributors edit
- Bill Carter (Author)
First Edition edit
Original Language: English
Publisher: Viking Adult
Country: United States
Publication Date: November 4, 2010
ISBN: 978-0670022083
Page Count: 416
Publisher: Viking Adult
Country: United States
Publication Date: November 4, 2010
ISBN: 978-0670022083
Page Count: 416
Classification edit
- Library of Congress: PN1992.77.T63 C375 2010
- Dewey: 791.4572
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