Conan Is Going to TBS

Comedy picture Conan O’Brien is connexion TBS to patron a late-night speech exhibit that is due to debut in November.  The Emmy-winning comedian’s newborn program module be followed by Lopez Tonight, which module shift to a midnight time slot.

O’Brien began talks in serious with TBS meet terminal week, after martyr Lopez personally titled him to ask that he study connexion the network’s late-night line-up.  “I can’t conceive of anything meliorate than doing my exhibit with Conan as my lead-in,” Lopez said.  “It’s the beginning of a newborn era in late-night comedy.”

Said O’Brien: “In three months I’ve absent from meshwork broadcasting to Twitter to performing springy in theaters, and today I’m headed to base cable.  My organisation is employed perfectly.”

O’Brien and Lopez module provide TBS a dynamic lineup in late-night television.  TBS â€" which has built a planning listing that appeals to a young, diverse conference â€" expects O’Brien to be a long-term constituent to the network’s late-night landscape.  O’Brien module patron his hour-long, yet-to-be-titled exhibit Mondays through Thursdays at 11 p.m. (ET/PT).

O’Brien is well-known from his many eld in comedy.  He grew up in a large, Irish Catholic family in a community of Boston.  His love of comedy began at an primeval age and carried on when he entered altruist University, where he attained a degree in history.  During his eld at Harvard, he also wrote for the legendary altruist Lampoon publication, yet bringing as its president.

After leaving Harvard, O’Brien went to Los Angeles, where he institute several composition jobs for television, including HBO’s Not Necessarily the News.  After returning to the East Coast, O’Brien connected the composition aggroup at Saturday Night Live, earning his prototypal Emmy in 1989.  He was composition for the impact exhibit The Simpsons when Lorne Michaels approached him most a newborn late-night program for NBC.  In 1993, Late Night with Conan O’Brien launched.  The exhibit ran for 16 years, success when O’Brien shortly took over The Tonight Show.

O’Brien is currently touring the United States and Canada with his springy show, Legally Prohibited from Being Funny on Television Tour.

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