Ouch!
NBC executive Dick Ebersol believes that Conan O’Brien has no one to blame but himself when it comes to The Tonight Show fiasco because the ratings weren’t great!
Referring to Conan’s jabs at Jay Leno, Ebersol said that it was ├óΓé¼┼ôchicken-hearted and gutless to blame a guy you couldn├óΓé¼Γäót beat in the rating” and that ├óΓé¼┼ôwhat this is really all about is an astounding failure by Conan.├óΓé¼┬¥
You know, Leno’s ratings weren’t all the great when he first started The Tonight Show! It takes time to develop an audience at a new time slot not to mention Leno had decent lead-in programming!
Ebersol said he also met with Conan about making the show more accessible to the whole country saying, “I like Conan enormously personally. He was just stubborn about not being willing to broaden the appeal of his show.”
He also said that the other late-night hosts and comedians blaming Jay is inappropriate:
“Jeff [Zucker] and I are big boys. When we do something big in the public forum and it doesn’t succeed, we know we’ll be the butt of criticism. But you don’t personally attack someone who hasn’t done anything. We bet on the wrong guy.”
Pretty harsh words about Conando, but we’re pretty firm on our Team CoCo stance!
Thoughts?
[Image via WENN.]
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