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Monday, January 11, 2010

Leno back to late night, Conan and Fallon, who knows


In what should be described as one of the biggest cluster messes in a long time, NBC has left themselves in a big pile of mess, with the announcement that Jay Leno is going back to late night. It has been widely reported last week that NBC was looking to shakeup things by moving Mr. Leno back to his original 11:30 slot, while moving current "Tonight Show" host Conan O'Brien to 12:00, and moving "Late Night" host Jimmy Fallon to 1:00. Today such a move was announced by the peacock network.
"The Jay Leno Show" will end on February 11th, just before the Winter Olympics start. This will give two weeks for the Leno team to pull together his new/old 11:30 time slot. It will also give Conan O'Brien and Jimmy Fallon time to put together their shows as well.

The big question in all of this is one thing. Out of the three talents, who is going to be sticking around? During a press event in Los Angeles Jeff Gaspin, chairman of NBC Universal Television and Entertainment acknowledged that none of the three host had signed onto the proposed idea. Mr. Gaspin stated, “My goal right now is to keep Jay, Conan and Jimmy as part of our late-night lineup. As much as I’d like to tell you we have a done deal, we know that’s not true.”

"Talks are ongoing," Gaspin added.

Gaspin said that talks with the three host will continue on Monday.

The main reason for this move was dude to the fact that the Leno show was a very poor lead-in for local affilates, which in turn was a poor lead-in for the current "Tonight Show" with Conan O'Brien.


Thursday, January 7, 2010

Mcdonalds customers are an interesting bunch

In what can be considered not an isolated incident, a woman at a Kansas City, Missouri Mcdonalds was upset about her meal order not being correct, according to NBC News 2, out of Florida.

The woman became irate and began throwing dirty mop water, knocking over computers, and other wild actions. Fortunately there were no reported injuries to customers or the Mcdonalds employees. The reported damage by the woman was around $3,000. It's not clear what the woman ordered, what was messed up on her order, or if it was a case of her not getting enough of something she requested. The video is below from MSNBC.com:
This however is not an isolated incident. Back in December the Salt Lake Tribute reported that a Salt Lake City, Utah Mcdonalds a customer shot up a drive-through, after the customer wanted to order from the lunch menu at 2am. The customer was told that they had shifted from lunch/dinner menu to breakfast. The customer who was described as a 6 feet 1 inch Polynesian man, was with another man. The polynesian man was said to be the shooter, who pulled out a sawed-off shotgun and fired off several shots at the drive-through window. There were no reported injuries to the workers, the police were still looking for the suspects.