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Old 06-03-2015, 10:38
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I have to record it now as it's so late and it's just not the same. I tried to watch Jimmy Fallon the other night but his interview with Judi Dench was so bad and awkward it was cringeworthy. He really is a dreadful interviewer.
Jimmy Fallon isn’t a great interviewer, and it’s widely said as such. But he is improving, slowly. He’s still very ‘kiss ass’ in his approach, but maybe you have to be to a degree to continue to get the big name guests.
On a side note Triumph the Insult Comic Dog (from Conan) was on The Tonight Show starring Jimmy Fallon recently, and there was a very funny bit where they were playing a game where they have to describe a word or phrase. The phrase was ‘brown noser’ and Triumph said to Jimmy ‘oh, this is what everyone says you are’. It made me laugh out loud. Triumph also made countless insulting jokes about NBC, Jimmy and The Roots. I really like The Tonight Show, but it was very funny.

But what makes Jimmy Fallon a success is that the fact that he’s an overall entertainer, and whether he’s doing a comedy skit, singing, dancing, or playing a game with a celebrity, he seems to have the ability make things go viral so that they are then seen by millions and millions of people around the world.
I suspect CBS are hoping that James Corden will be able to do similar given the background of where’s he’s come from.

Obviously everyone’s interviewing tastes are different, but I think I’d have to say Craig Ferguson was best at it. His interviews were largely unrehearsed and felt more like a chat amongst friends. Of course the downside of that was that some celebrities didn’t like unpredictable-ness and therefore didn’t want to do his show.
Another excellent interviewer is Howard Stern, but he even more so suffers from celebrities being afraid to do his radio show. But I wasn’t surprised to see his name being mentioned as a potential host for NBC’s Late Night and CBS’s Late Show at times, not that I think it was ever really a likelihood though.
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Old 25-03-2015, 08:38
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It should be noted though that CNBC has been airing The Tonight Show with Jay Leno/Conan O’Brien/Jimmy Fallon for over 15 years in the UK. I know it’s essentially used as ‘filler’ and is from the same parent company (so they’re getting it cheap/free) but it still requires them to receive and edit it every day so they must be happy to keep broadcasting it. The TruTV/Conan situation is very similar, but I suspect TruTV won’t be happy to do the same once their current contract ends.
Worth noting as well that the Tonight Show first appeared on CNBC in July 1998 following the closure of NBC Europe/Superchannel to half of Europe, the UK included. From this, CNBC started to show some of NBC Europe's programming at the weekend only with the likes of the Tonight Show with Jay Leno and Late Night with Conan O'Brien. It was a good few years after that when they started to show Tonight at the 11pm weeknight slot.
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Old 25-03-2015, 09:23
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Worth noting as well that the Tonight Show first appeared on CNBC in July 1998 following the closure of NBC Europe/Superchannel to half of Europe, the UK included. From this, CNBC started to show some of NBC Europe's programming at the weekend only with the likes of the Tonight Show with Jay Leno and Late Night with Conan O'Brien. It was a good few years after that when they started to show Tonight at the 11pm weeknight slot.
That’s correct, but to be honest I hardly ever watch the daily 11pm broadcasts on CNBC because so much is edited out – about 12 minutes every show. Which is sometimes the best 12 minutes of the entire show!
Although you have to wait a few more days, the weekend broadcasts are full length so are much better. But you do only get 4 of the 5 shows broadcast in full length which is shame.
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Old 26-03-2015, 09:27
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I just posted this in the Late Late Show thread, but I thought I’d share it here too.

James Corden was a guest on ‘Conan’ last night in the US, so it’ll air in the UK late tonight at 1am on TruTV. It’s always good when other late night talk show hosts appear on other late night shows, and what with James Corden being new to The Late Late Show and British it should be an interesting interview – the newbie being interviewed by Conan, who will soon become the current longest serving late night host.
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Old 26-03-2015, 19:10
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I just posted this in the Late Late Show thread, but I thought I’d share it here too.

James Corden was a guest on ‘Conan’ last night in the US, so it’ll air in the UK late tonight at 1am on TruTV. It’s always good when other late night talk show hosts appear on other late night shows, and what with James Corden being new to The Late Late Show and British it should be an interesting interview – the newbie being interviewed by Conan, who will soon become the current longest serving late night host.
It's interesting when it happens.
Over here Jonathan Ross appears on the Chatty Man specials but you don't see many other 'crossovers'.
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Old 27-03-2015, 03:08
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Watched Conan on Tru TV tonight, there was no James Corden. It was with Kevin Hart.

Had a look on TCM as they show Conan too and guess what? It was the exact same one as Tru, Kevin Hart. On at the same time, albeit TCM started earlier at 12.40am while Tru starts at 1am.

So Tru and TCM show same Conan episodes every night?
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Old 27-03-2015, 09:17
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Watched Conan on Tru TV tonight, there was no James Corden. It was with Kevin Hart.

Had a look on TCM as they show Conan too and guess what? It was the exact same one as Tru, Kevin Hart. On at the same time, albeit TCM started earlier at 12.40am while Tru starts at 1am.

So Tru and TCM show same Conan episodes every night?
James Corden was on ‘Conan’ on Wednesday night in the US, which means TruTV should have broadcast it last night. They even got a plug on the Daily Mail website advertising it! I guess there were ‘technical issues’ at TruTV again, which seem to be happening with increasing frequency!

I know ‘Conan’ was never going to get massive ratings for them, but they really don’t help themselves when they get a big plug on a major website/newspaper and then show a different episode.

As far as I'm aware TCM show the episodes 1 day after TruTV, so 2 days after the Us broadcast. It sounds like TruTV messed up last night, and so the same episode was shown on both channels, at the same time.
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Old 13-04-2015, 13:23
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Is it just me, or are TruTV now showing CONAN 2 days after the US broadcast?
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Old 28-04-2015, 15:43
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Watched Conan last night on TruTv just to see who was on and it was a show feat. Nicole Kidman and Maggie Grace from January. It's almost May! Do TruTv still have UK first rights to this? Don't understand why they would show such an old episode.
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Old 28-04-2015, 16:24
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Because that is the episode which aired in the US last Wednesday.

http://teamcoco.com/schedule/2015-04-20

The US talk shows normally produce around 40 weeks of new episodes per year yet the shows air all year round. It is over two decades since Tonight used guest hosts to fill in those other weeks, so now all of them just show a week of repeat episodes, usually from the past few months.
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Old 28-04-2015, 18:52
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Watched Conan last night on TruTv just to see who was on and it was a show feat. Nicole Kidman and Maggie Grace from January. It's almost May! Do TruTv still have UK first rights to this? Don't understand why they would show such an old episode.
As sort of eluded to in the above post, Conan was on a weeks break last week in the US. And as TruTV in the UK are on a 2 show delay it was a repeat last night. The next new episode on TruTV will be on Wednesday night (at 1am).
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Old 01-07-2015, 02:44
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I recorded Conan on Monday night (technically Tuesday morning) but when I came to watch it on my Sky planner, it was some crime programme. Has Conan been dropped altogether?
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Old 01-07-2015, 13:06
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I recorded Conan on Monday night (technically Tuesday morning) but when I came to watch it on my Sky planner, it was some crime programme. Has Conan been dropped altogether?
I haven’t checked my Sky+ recordings for this week yet, but according to DigiGuide it’s still in the TruTV schedule until at least 14/07/2015 (no schedules beyond that have been released yet.).

If I remember correctly, TruTV started showing Conan in late July 2014, so assuming it’s a 1 year contract, and assuming they are going to drop it, I’d expect it to be in about a month’s time.
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Old 01-07-2015, 19:29
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According to TruTV's Twitter account, Conan now starts at 3am! It'd be nce if they told Sky that, so the schedule would be correct on Sky Planner. Clearly, the show's about to be dropped altogether, so I suppose it doesn't matter that much for a few weeks.
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Old 01-07-2015, 20:42
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Not just Sky's guide, Freeview and Freesat also still have Conan on at 1am. Ironically tru tv's website also still says 1am. Must of been a last minute decision.
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Old 02-07-2015, 09:16
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According to TruTV's Twitter account, Conan now starts at 3am! It'd be nce if they told Sky that, so the schedule would be correct on Sky Planner.
Not just Sky's guide, Freeview and Freesat also still have Conan on at 1am. Ironically tru tv's website also still says 1am. Must of been a last minute decision.
Yeah, it appears Conan now airs at 3am, despite everything (including the TruTV website and the Sky EPG saying otherwise).
I'll be absolutely amazed if its not dropped from their schedule within the next month now.
I guess I'll start making plans to watch it online again....

But for those of you who, like me, have missed the last few shows because of the scheduling change and the EPG not being updated to reflect it - TCM HD are showing the latest episodes tonight back to back, here are the listings...

00:35am - CONAN (ep 5750)
01:25am - CONAN (ep 5754)
02:10am - CONAN (ep 5753)
02:55am - CONAN (ep 5752)
03:40am - CONAN (ep 5751)
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Old 02-07-2015, 19:10
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American Talk shows have never done well in the UK, for several reasons
1) They often feature guests unknown in the UK
2) They usually air a day later than US transmission (sometimes 3 days later when the original broadcast was Friday)
3) US culture and systems are not fully understood by the British public

itv tried to screen Johnny Carson's Tonight Show as far back as the 80's (I do not remember this but an American Friend assures me its true), Channel 5 even tried their own US style Talk Show (The Jack Docherty Show) which also failed. Several TV Channels in the UK have tried to screen the original US Talk Shows, they do so for a couple of years then decide the viewing figures are too low and give up.
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Old 02-07-2015, 20:55
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American Talk shows have never done well in the UK, for several reasons
1) They often feature guests unknown in the UK
2) They usually air a day later than US transmission (sometimes 3 days later when the original broadcast was Friday)
3) US culture and systems are not fully understood by the British public

itv tried to screen Johnny Carson's Tonight Show as far back as the 80's (I do not remember this but an American Friend assures me its true), Channel 5 even tried their own US style Talk Show (The Jack Docherty Show) which also failed. Several TV Channels in the UK have tried to screen the original US Talk Shows, they do so for a couple of years then decide the viewing figures are too low and give up.
We don't like em because we find them far too slick, repetitive and insincere.
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Old 03-07-2015, 02:48
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They've finally updated the EPG - so, in theory, it should record okay now - although I'm not expecting the show to last much beyond this month if reports are correct about when the contract for showing Conan expires.
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Old 03-07-2015, 09:39
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American Talk shows have never done well in the UK, for several reasons
1) They often feature guests unknown in the UK
2) They usually air a day later than US transmission (sometimes 3 days later when the original broadcast was Friday)
3) US culture and systems are not fully understood by the British public

itv tried to screen Johnny Carson's Tonight Show as far back as the 80's (I do not remember this but an American Friend assures me its true), Channel 5 even tried their own US style Talk Show (The Jack Docherty Show) which also failed. Several TV Channels in the UK have tried to screen the original US Talk Shows, they do so for a couple of years then decide the viewing figures are too low and give up.
More recently than Channel 5's The Jack Docherty Show, the BBC also attempted a nightly talks show with 'Johnny Vaughan Tonight' and Channel 4 with 'V Graham Norton'. Both were unsuccessful.

The Tonight Show (first with Jay Leno and now starring Jimmy Fallon) has aired in the UK on CNBC for 17 years, making it the only 'successful' US talk show in the UK (and by that I mean airing consistently on one channel). But that's mainly due to the programme and the channel sharing the same parent company. Having said that, it takes time and effort to get it on the air every night, so CNBC must be happy to do so given they've done it for so long.

There's a rumour that Sky 1 has picked up 'The Late Late Show with James Corden' and will air from the autumn. However they plan to air a one hour 'best of' once a week - which means we won't see all the jokes/guests that are irrelevance to the average British viewer. This could be the secret to airing a US late night talk show with success in the UK...
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Old 03-07-2015, 13:06
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I'd be interested in seeing what 'the Late Show with Stephen Colbert' will be like - but I doubt it would get particularly good ratings, even if some channel did take a punt on it...
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Old 03-07-2015, 13:50
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I'd be interested in seeing what 'the Late Show with Stephen Colbert' will be like - but I doubt it would get particularly good ratings, even if some channel did take a punt on it...
Seeing as the established 'Late Show with David Letterman' never decent audience on any of the UK channels that it was broadcast on over the years I can't see any UK broadcaster being interested in the new 'The Late Show with Stephen Colbert'. Luckily in this day and age those who want to see it will be able to online, even if it's just what's available on YouTube.

'The Late Late Show with James Corden' probably has the best chances of being a success in the UK than any other US late night talk show ever before. But it's not helped by the fact its a 12:35am show so the guests aren't always A list, which is why Sky 1's rumoured weekly 'best of' could be a good idea.
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Old 04-07-2015, 19:42
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Have they shown the Comic-Con episodes yet as the schedule change meant that I recorded some episodes of True Crimes instead.
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Old 04-07-2015, 20:10
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Have they shown the Comic-Con episodes yet as the schedule change meant that I recorded some episodes of True Crimes instead.
No, I think Comic-Con is next week...so we should be able to see them before TruTV pulls the plug on the show (assuming they do).
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Old 06-07-2015, 09:30
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Have they shown the Comic-Con episodes yet as the schedule change meant that I recorded some episodes of True Crimes instead.
No, I think Comic-Con is next week...so we should be able to see them before TruTV pulls the plug on the show (assuming they do).
The Comic-Con shows air this week on Weds, Thurs, Fri and Sat in the US.

I believe TruTV are currently airing the show on a 2 show delay (Mon to Thurs), so by my calculations the Comic-Con shows should air on TruTV on the nights of Mon 13th July, Tues 14th July, Weds 15th July and Thurs 16th July (technically the early hours of the next day, but you know what I mean). Someone correct me if I’m wrong though...
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