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Old 31-07-2014, 12:11
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The channel is up on the Sky epg but at the moment you can't put the show in the planner yet but hopefully that will be sorted out soon and after 3 years it will be nice to watch these legally now. I'm very pleased! What with this and the news that Conan stars in Sharktopus vs Pteracuda on Syfy in the US on Saturday in a performance that made Gary Oldman cry it just remains for Syfy UK to pull their finger out!
Tuesdays episode will allow you to record, set a manual recording for episode 1 as unfortunately we cannot seem to find a way to get in touch with the UK side of Turner
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Old 31-07-2014, 13:05
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Is the interview with Conan on GMB available anywhere other than the shockingly s**t ITV Player?

I'd set my YouView DVR to record the show, but it failed. Bloody typical that it had to fail with that!
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Old 31-07-2014, 20:59
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The EPG issue has now been fixed by Sky, so you can now add Mondays show and series link it. It might be worth noting though that because Conan has been in the UK this week the fist show is a rerun from a couple of weeks ago. From Tuesday onwards it's the planned 1 day delay from the US broadcast.

By the way, TruTV is on channel 565 on Sky for those who haven't found it.
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Old 31-07-2014, 21:02
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Is the interview with Conan on GMB available anywhere other than the shockingly s**t ITV Player?

I'd set my YouView DVR to record the show, but it failed. Bloody typical that it had to fail with that!
The interview is available on the Good Morning Britain website if you don't want to use ITV Player.
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Old 31-07-2014, 21:10
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The interview is available on the Good Morning Britain website if you don't want to use ITV Player.
Is it less cringeworthy than the LBC interview? It felt like Nick Ferrari was attacking Conan with a bunch of irrelevant questions he wasn't quite expecting, and you could tell Conan was a bit uncomfortable with it...
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Old 31-07-2014, 21:23
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Yes quite right planner is working as normal. So they're starting with the Gary Oldman episode that went out 2 Tuesdays ago, good choice as Oldman is on good form and the supercut of his death scenes works well, expecting many bad Conan 'gor blimey guvnor's' and plenty uses of the word Anon when he starts Tuesday.
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Old 01-08-2014, 01:32
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Is it less cringeworthy than the LBC interview? It felt like Nick Ferrari was attacking Conan with a bunch of irrelevant questions he wasn't quite expecting, and you could tell Conan was a bit uncomfortable with it...
That's a strange inference you've taken from the the interview. Conan's a highly intelligent guy. He had no problem answering his questions.
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Old 01-08-2014, 10:06
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That's a strange inference you've taken from the the interview. Conan's a highly intelligent guy. He had no problem answering his questions.
He didn't come across as unintelligent, or unable to answer the questions, he just seemed a little surprised at what he was being asked, during the early "tell us about our weather and food" section...
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Old 04-08-2014, 13:24
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Starts tonight at 11pm.

Its an episode from a couple of weeks back tonight (as last week was reruns in the US due to Conan being over here in the UK promoting), but then its new episodes from tomorrow on a one show delay from US broadcast (which normally equates to a less than 24 hour difference between the US and UK broadcast).
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Old 04-08-2014, 13:32
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Looking forward to this tonight.

It's a shame it's hidden away in the Documentaries section on Sky. On Freesat they've put TruTV under Entertainment.
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Old 05-08-2014, 11:21
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Only 11,000 viewers (0.1% share) for Conan last night.

For heaven's sake tell your friends and family about this show else it won't last 5 minutes.
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Old 05-08-2014, 12:16
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I like Conan I've watched his show on & off for ages, The one thing Conan & the producers will have to is get some Brit's on Conan gets on well with is Jimmy Carr , Damian Lewis, Gordon Ramsey & Ricky Gervais, Emma Thompson has been on the show in the past year or so, The run of guests are mainly American of course but fingers crossed the above people will come on the show because if not I can't see the programme taking off here & that wiil be a shame because he knocks spots of the likes of Jonathan Ross, Conan is very switched on & great with one liners
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Old 05-08-2014, 12:36
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Anyone know who the guests are tonight?
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Old 05-08-2014, 12:49
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They need to schedule a repeat for 6pm the day after.
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Old 05-08-2014, 12:53
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They need to schedule a repeat for 6pm the day after.
Probably pushing it a bit, uncut at 6PM. Most of the show's fine, but there's the occasional guest or gag that couldn't be shown...
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Old 05-08-2014, 12:54
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Only 11,000 viewers (0.1% share) for Conan last night.

For heaven's sake tell your friends and family about this show else it won't last 5 minutes.
If TruTV are expecting it do well, they're delusional, US chat shows don't do well over here. My guess is that they have low expectations, and anything above those is a bonus.
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Old 05-08-2014, 13:09
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Only 11,000 viewers (0.1% share) for Conan last night.

For heaven's sake tell your friends and family about this show else it won't last 5 minutes.
But even at its very peak truTV only managed 36,000 viewers last night, so my guess would be that 11,000 viewers at 11pm at night is quite acceptable given its a brand new programme to this country.
Remember, this isn’t the ‘Late Show with David Letterman’ on Sky One,ITV2, Diva TV, or ‘The Daily Show’ on More4 etc where they really had to justify the money they were paying for the rights – this is a Turner produced programme on a Turner run channel, I suspect they are getting the programme at a significantly reduced rate. As long as it performs in line with the other programmes on the channel I think (and hope!) it’ll be around for a while, much like ‘The Tonight Show’ on CNBC.

I suspect the amount of effort and resource it takes to get the programme on the air so soon after the US is probably more concern than what they are paying for the rights. It’s much easier to stick on a 10 year old episode of Fear Factor!

Anyone know who the guests are tonight?
This is a really good website for upcoming guests on all the US late night shows:
http://www.interbridge.com/lineups.html

truTV also seem to be putting the guests in the EPG which is a smart move.

They need to schedule a repeat for 6pm the day after.
I was a bit surprised there are no repeats, I was expecting at least a middle of the night repeat.
An early evening repeat is a good idea, but as has been said, would require some effort as they’d have to create a daytime edit every day.
truTV have said they have plans to launch a catch up service, if they do and Conan is included in that it would also be a smart move, particularly given how popular the catch up services are on Sky and Virgin now.
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Old 05-08-2014, 16:16
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Or better still http://teamcoco.com/schedule
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Old 06-08-2014, 10:07
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I hope they get the sound sorted out soon.
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Old 06-08-2014, 10:49
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I hope they get the sound sorted out soon.
Yeah, booming badly. Amateur hour.
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Old 06-08-2014, 10:54
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Does chelsea lately get good ratings here?
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Old 06-08-2014, 12:02
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Does chelsea lately get good ratings here?
In a word, no. But Chelsea Lately is an NBC Universal produced programme being broadcast on an NBC Universal owned UK channel (E!), so the rights come at little or no cost. So although it doesn’t have many viewers in the UK its still within the acceptable levels for the channel, and because it comes at little or no cost then everyone is happy.

I suspect its the exact same scenario for CONAN on truTV in the UK.

Which is the complete opposite to whenever the Late Show with David Letterman has been broadcast (and dropped) in the UK as its always been shown by a channel who is buying the rights at full cost and therefore the ratings have to justify the cost, which they clearly never do.
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Old 06-08-2014, 12:19
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Which is the complete opposite to whenever the Late Show with David Letterman
has been broadcast (and dropped) in the UK as its always been shown by a
channel who is buying the rights at full cost and therefore the ratings have
to justify the cost, which they clearly never do.
In which case, one of the CBS branded channels here should grab the UK rights for Letterman's show,
especially seeing as Dave is retiring sometime next year. The rights/cost need not be a major issue.
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Old 06-08-2014, 19:23
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Here's hoping they don't start making any unnecessary edits to the show for the UK broadcast, like ITV
and Sky did with Letterman many years ago. If they start doing this, I'll go back to torrent downloads!

However, I did notice one small edit to the truTV premiere edition of Conan, featuring Gary Oldman as
the main guest, originally shown on 22nd July in the States. They removed the bit where Conan said
the next show would feature his cameo apperance in "Sharktopus vs Ptercuda" in full, but I suspect
this edit was made by TBS from the re-run of the episode shown over there on Monday night.

One edit that I think would be welcome for the UK version of the broadcast on truTV, would be for
any strong language to be unbleeped. Any swearwords stronger than "s**t" are usually bleeped
out of the original broadcasts on TBS, such as when a guest drops an F bomb.
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Old 06-08-2014, 19:25
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i have never watched Conan orien but enjoyed what i have seen
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