| totalwar23 said: Kasz, how do you expect a talk show that's on for 5 nights a week to score on average 10 million viewers a night? Leno ain't Oprah and everyone, including NBC expected the ratings he got. They planned around it so that the show would be profitable. And by what you're saying, you expect viewers to watch through the news and carry on to O'Brien's show? And that O'Brien isn't attracting viewers on his own? This is the blame Leno approach everyone seems to be taking. The fact remains that Leno is more popular than O'Brien and attracts a wider audience. NBC knows that which is why they don't want Leno on another network. |
Leno wasn't attarcting viewers on his own.
Leno had help from great NBC dramas. That's what Lead ins at 10:00 do.
That's why Leno was getting canned by the affiliates. He was a downright shitty lead-in people are sick of Leno and used the shift as excuse to finally break from the show, due to no good lead ins and nobody aaring.
Also, O'brian attracts something Leno doesn't. The 18-40 male demographic. Conan actually wins that demographic.
I think your also forgetting the fact that the ratings for Leno's show SUCKED at first as well... Leno's first year numbers were way worse then Conans.
The whole thing IS Jay Leno's fault. Everyone is blaming him for a reason.
Even the insiders.
The only people on Jay Leno's side are Jay Leno, the NBC execs, and then Jerry Seinfeld. Who is Jay Leno's friend and also shopping a sitcom to NBC.
