Re: Andy Richter Lets 'Er Rip on NBC, Jay Leno (All about celebrities)

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Re: Andy Richter Lets 'Er Rip on NBC, Jay Leno

Posted on: Tue, 9 Mar 2010 21:37:08 +0000 (UTC)

On Mar 9, 4:31=A0pm, Taylor wrote:
> On Mar 9, 4:11=A0pm, CliffB wrote:
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> > On Mar 9, 4:03=A0pm, edonline wrote:
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> > >http://www.popeater.com/2010/03/09/andy-richter-jay-leno-nbc/
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> > > Andy Richter Lets 'Er Rip on NBC, Jay Leno
> > > By PopEater / Wire Services =A0Posted Mar 9th 2010 03:39PM
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> > > Andy Richter, Conan O'Brien's sidekick at 'The Tonight Show,' is
> > > acknowledging some ill will toward NBC and Jay Leno in the wake of th=
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> > > network's late-night upheaval. "Why wouldn't I?" said Richter, who wa=
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> > > filling in Tuesday for Regis Philbin on 'Live! with Regis and Kelly.'
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> > > Richter told Kelly Ripa he was frustrated that Leno was allowed to
> > > reclaim 'The Tonight Show' host chair just nine months after O'Brien
> > > had inherited that plumignment.
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> > > "NBC, definitely, everybody said they were going to do something and
> > > they didn't," said Richter, implying the network broke long-standing
> > > commitments it made to O'Brien.
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> > > O'Brien left NBC and 'Tonight' in January amid complaints by NBC of
> > > low ratings. NBC had proposed reinstating Leno in the 11:35 p.m. EST
> > > slot and bumping O'Brien back a half-hour.
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> > > O'Brien's future is unclear. So is Richter's, though he said, for now=
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> > > he's still an NBC employee, "so we'll see if those checks keep
> > > coming."
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> > > He called a rumored live concert tour for O'Brien and Co. "a distinct
> > > possibility."
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> > > It all ended much quicker than he could have imagined, said Richter,
> > > who figured his 'Tonight' job was "as good as it gets in show
> > > business."
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> > > He said he figured "I'm a tenured professor of show business now," bu=
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> > > quickly learned otherwise. "I guess I'm really good at getting kicked
> > > off the air, because it's what I've been doing for the last 10 years.=
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> > Whiner. Ratings talk, bullshit walks. The man's been well recompensed
> > for repeated failure.- Hide quoted text -
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> An article was posted by David on the viability or there lack-of for
> an O'Brien on Fox late night following 10 o'clock news (and an 11
> o'clock show). It shakes up the syndication market for sitcoms (as
> well as shows like 'TMZ') and Fox stations don't want to give up that
> very valuable TV real estate they currently share w/ Tribune stations
> as an alternative to late night talk.
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> Conan may have shot himself in the foot with this one.

He can go to a midnight or later start; ummm.......incidentally what
NBC offered all along, with the Tonight Show mantle intact with
Conan's name, and which he refused. Conan said the Tonight Show must
stay at 11:30, thereby relinquished it to Leno, and it ends up he may
have saved the show after all by bowing out and allowing Leno to take
back the show's traditional market share which Richter and O'Brien had
seemingly squandered.

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