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Conan O'Brien Pulls a Leno on Lopez, Heads to TBS for 11 p.m. Show in November

TBS just got a little oranger.According to a Time Warner press release, pale, string-dancing late night comic Conan O'Brien is heading to TBS, and will be bumping George Lopez's Lopez Tonight to midnight. Conan has been trying to ...READ»

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Fast Talk: Night Stalker

Jimmy Kimmel Live's Jill Leiderman on how to run a late-night talk show.READ»

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Late-Night Spat Good for NBC's Bottom Line, Creative Types, Ice-T

So far all this NBC mishegas has cost the network and its affiliates plenty of dough, not to mention programming credibility, viewer goodwill and general pop culture coolness. Some estimates have pegged Jay Leno's move to 10 p.m. as ...READ»

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Farewell to Conan and the Best Los Angeles Architecture Montage Ever

Conan O'Brien struck a deal that will set him free from NBC, but what will come of his snazzy show opener, a sophisticated homage to Los Angeles architecture?READ»

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Viacom Yanks "The Daily Show" and "The Colbert Report" Off Hulu

The Daily Show and The Colbert Report are two of the most popular shows available at Hulu, and have even come to represent the possibilities of the service--personally speaking, I hit up Hulu most mornings specifically to catch ...READ»

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Viacom Pulls Daily Show & Colbert from Hulu

Viacom announced yesterday that it will pull The Daily Show and The Colbert Report from the most popular online video site, Hulu. Although Jon Stewart and Steven Colbert top Hulu’s charts, Viacom said the shows are...READ»

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Actor Kevin Pollak Reinvents Himself With Web Video

In his 30-year career, Kevin Pollak has appeared in more than 60 films and created indelible roles in such modern classics as A Few Good Men and The Usual Suspects. His Internet awakening occurred in 2009, when he started his ...READ»

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Live from Your Office! It's ...

... the company talk show!" If you're looking for lessons to help your company compete or to put your career in gear, just sit down on the couch next to our genial host and learn how to talk your way to the top! And now, heeeeeere's the talk show!READ»

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Jay Leno's Last Tonight Show

After some 3,800 episodes, Jay Leno will relinquish his 11:35 p.m. slot to Conan O'Brien. Jimmy Fallon is already in O'Brien's old slot. Here's our take on Leno's last monologue: * After 17 years, Jay Leno is stepping down as ...READ»

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The Oprah Winfrey (and GM) Show

It was the ''product placement to end all product placements,'' the Washington Post declared. It epitomized "a marketing era that morphs advertising, public relations, event marketing and product placement into one confusing jumble ...READ»

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Viacom Could Embrace YouTube and Create New Ad Revenue

Viacom is treating YouTube like a copyright infringer, but there's an easy win-win scenario: advertising barter and a per-subscriber fee. All Viacom needs to do is to think of YouTube as just another ad-supported distribution ...READ»

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Book Lovers: Stop Whining about the Wonderful "Feel of Paper"

Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos has been making the talk show rounds with the new Kindle 2, and many hosts blabber on about their love for the feel and smell of real, paper books. They croon wistfully over the printed book's demise, and express ...READ»

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And Now A Word From Our Sponsors

Its funny how everything old is one day new again. Akin to the Johnny Carson days of old, television talk show hosts are communicating sponsors product information directly to their audience. As audiences continue to be battered and ...READ»

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Conan vs. NBC: The Online Propaganda War Heats Up

Conan O'Brien addressed the "People of Earth" on Tuesday, saying he had no intention to support NBC's bid to move The Tonight Show into a later time slot and make him play leapfrog with Jay Leno. The move means that geek fans may lose ...READ»

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Jon Stewart on the Gizmodo iPhone Saga: "Is Apple Becoming 'The Man'?"

New York Times, Wall Street Journal, BBC--all fine news organizations, to be sure. But the surefire sign a story's made it out into the zeitgeist is when our nation's premier fake journalist, Jon Stewart, makes fun of it.READ»

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Telly Visionary

With 15 Emmys and a superstar client list, set designer Jim Fenhagen is the hottest thing on TV.READ»

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29. The Power of O

Previous | Next It's a promise that would make any PR client drool: We'll get you on Oprah! Larry Woodard, whose Vigilante is an independently operated, urban-youth-oriented ad shop owned by Publicis, found himself ...READ»

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29. The Power of O

Previous | Next It's a promise that would make any PR client drool: We'll get you on Oprah! Larry Woodard, whose Vigilante is an independently operated, urban-youth-oriented ad shop owned by Publicis, found himself chatting ...READ»

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Seven Curious Things Online this Week

The future is scary: hadron colliders, HD-video iPhones and nanotube lightbulbs are as bizarre as they are promising. Thankfully, this week on the Web shows us that not all that much has changed; we're still the same gawkers we were ...READ»

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Think Like Crazy!

A letter from the founding editors.READ»

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Funny Business

How comedians clarify brain-fuzzing statsREAD»

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Lessons From Leno and Twitter Bombers: 3 Rules for Next-Gen Marketing

At the Advertising Research Foundation's (ARF) 2010 Re: Think Conference in New York City Tuesday, CEO of social-media marketing research firm Communispace Diane Hessan presented the eight rules for next-gen marketing research. ...READ»

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David Letterman's Top 10 Reasons Your Job Search Is Frustrating

David Letterman is searching for a new job…READ»

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Ashton Kutcher's Live Webvids: Genius New Format or Celeb Desperation?

Ashton Kutcher was our surprising business story/eyecandy magazine cover subject for December, and here he is in the news again. This time it's for a new type of live Web-cast "TV" show, premiering today. It might be genius. Just ...READ»

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The World Wide Talk Show Host

Loic Le Meur runs the LeWeb conference, which just concluded last week in Paris, France. He also runs Seesmic, which is a startup that makes a variety of services and tools for what Loic calls "the instant Web." I call it the World ...READ»