According to the latest reports on Conan's negotiations with NBC, the Great Late Night War of 2010 may soon be coming to a ceasefire. Conan O'Brien's last show as the host of the Tonight Show appears to be cemented for tomorrow. In the meantime, the late night circus has turned up the comedy pressure cooker on both Leno and the peacock network. The highlights from last night are below.

First of all, David Letterman took a jab at Leno, his old foe.



Conan finally brought back the Masturbating Bear, which he may loose the rights to when NBC terminates his contract. Watch the video and more highlights after the jump.  Keep Reading »

We have three fantastic videos on tap for this evening's late night boredom buster. Earlier today I told you about a Japanese animation version of the Conan vs. Leno Late Night War. The hilarious spoof was made by the same digital cartoonist who digitized the Tiger Woods saga last month. Spoiler alert: Conan transforms into a green, Hulk-like beast and there's a battle royal with an animated Jeff Zucker at the end. This video will probably explode across the internet tomorrow and eventually get worked into a few late night routines throughout the week. Here's the entire video for your late night viewing pleasure.



Check out the trailer for MacGruber and a sick hockey goal after the jump.  Keep Reading »

The peacock network's Jay Leno/Conan O'Brien quagmire seems to have reached an irksome tipping point of feverish fan emotions and hushed programing manipulations. As of right now, Leno will takeover the Tonight Show at 11:30 for the second time in his career. In the meantime, Jimmy Fallon will stay put, Conan will consider offers to do "ginger" porn, and NBC chief Jeff Zucker will probably hide out in a corporate boardroom with a bottle of scotch all weekend wishing the botched Leno vs. Conan PR debacle would just go away. No matter where Conan ends up or how many times the NBC lineup is shuffled, the trials and tribulations of Team Coco have certainly made for some fascinating kabuki theater over the past week. But this is nothing new. Conan, we're here to remind you that you're not alone. As a genre, late-night television is historically rife with network ineptitude, broken promises, and short-lived television dreams. Here are 12 other failed late-night television programs. Unlike Conan, some of these may have been doomed from the get-go.

"The Chevy Chase Show"
Network: FOX
Time on the air: September 7, 1993 to October 1, 1993

Despite his popularity and comedic success, Chevy Chase's remarkably unfunny late night show on Fox was one colossal disaster after the next. The show didn't live up to its potential to lure advertisers to FOX and received an "F" rating by an Entertainment Weekly critic. It was canceled less than a month after it premiered.

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On Tuesday we told you about "Treme," a new HBO series from David Simon, the mastermind behind "The Wire." The New Orleans music scene-themed show will debut in early April, following the conclusion of HBO's latest epic World War II miniseries from Tom Hanks and Steven Spielberg, "The Pacific." Today brings the trailer of another new series from top HBO pedigree, and it looks just as bad ass as previous HBO fare.

So what do you get when you team up a lead writer for "The Sopranos" with Martin Scorsese, Steve Buscemi, and Gretchen Mol, and then set it all in Prohibition-era Atlantic City? The answer is after the jump.  Keep Reading »

In today's Morning Buzz, we brought news that ESPN is launching a new 3-D sports channel this summer. Is this cool? It sounds pretty damn luxurious, but it takes me back to my recent viewing of "Avatar" in 3-D where I couldn't decided whether or not I was falling off a roller coaster. Is the future of television going to consist of sitting on your big-ass couch with a pair of glasses on your face resembling two truck tires? I hope not.  Keep Reading »

Nineteen eighty-four was a great year for guy-friendly movies and an even better year for guy-friendly television broadcasts. Twenty-five years ago, much changed on television, with networks offering more sports programming, more sitcoms centering around guys, and more shows appealing to a guy's visual and auditory senses. The shows that began 25 years ago paved the way for the shows of today and left a lasting impact on bro pop culture.

1. The Re-Invention of College Football/Flutie's Hail Mary



1984 was the year that invigorated and changed the broadcast of college football games. For all the legal bros and scholars out there, the change in college football broadcasting came about after a June 1984 Supreme Court ruling in NCAA v. Board of Regents of University of Oklahoma, which stated that the NCAA's television plan violated anti-trust rules and allowed for individual schools to negotiate their own broadcast contracts. Although the results were not immediate, in 1984, ESPN started broadcasting its "College Football Saturday Primetime." To make it an even better year for college football, on November 23, 1984, in one of its bigger and initial college football broadcasts, CBS aired the B.C.-Miami game that ended with Doug Flutie's Hail Mary pass.

How it changed Bro-gramming: The Supreme Court ruling had a strong impact on college sports. The decision, along with the growth of cable networks like ESPN and TBS resulted in an explosion of college sports broadcast options. Although most schools continued to negotiate broadcast contracts through the now defunct CFA, after Notre Dame broke with the CFA and signed an exclusive contract with NBC, more and more schools started negotiating individual broadcast deals, which led to more sports programming options on more channels in more local markets. As a result of the 1984 Supreme Court ruling, there has been a decrease in the number of independent schools and a repositioning of athletic conferences, as schools attempted to increase their bargaining power. Of course, aside from the ruling, ESPN's "College Football Saturday Primetime" has brought us many great football moments and many great sports commentators. And lastly, the win that Flutie clinched for B.C. against the U was not only some great football, but also led to a 16% rise in applications to B.C. and the birth of the "Flutie Effect," where schools experience an increase in applications after their sports teams are victorious.  Keep Reading »