Posts Tagged Team Coco

Missed It: Team Coco Presents Conan’s Writers Live on TBS

Posted by admin in comedy, streaming video on June 30, 2010

This past Sunday night, TBS aired a show taped in Chicago earlier in June, Team Coco Presents Conan’s Writers Live (hosted by Andy Richter). Unfortunately I totally missed that it was scheduled to air. Fortunately for me (and hopefully for you), TBS has posted it here.

TBS had to trim some of the episode for time, and as the Team Coco site noted, that meant some of the writers got completed edited out of the show.  So as to not disappoint the writers edited out, Team Coco has posted the extras online, including this routine from Matt O’Brien.

I’m really intrigued at how Team Coco and TBS are branding Conan O’Brien already despite the fact he cannot appear on TV until well into the fall.

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Cable & Coco: Well Played, George Lopez & TBS

Posted by admin in late night TV on April 13, 2010

You’re TBS–a cable channel not exactly known for late night talk shows. You entered the fray last year, giving TV actor/stand-up comic George Lopez (Lopez Tonight).  Fox goes after Conan O’Brien (aka Team Coco) only to find it challenging from an affiliates standpoint (they were locked into myriad syndicated deals for years, making 11 PM unavailable). TBS steps into the void and with Lopez’s help (as detailed in this Bill Carter [the late night expert at the New York Times] piece) gets O’Brien to commit to a show starting in November 2010.

If you’re TBS, you want to get O’Brien marketing his brand on TBS ASAP. But NBC has a clause preventing him from appearing on TV until June. What do you in the interim? This.

Well played, TBS. And I can’t wait for November.

And in the meantime, I will check out Lopez Tonight, because of the classy way Lopez viewed gaining O’Brien as an opportunity and happily offered his 11 PM time slot (committing to midnight).

Speaking of Lopez, he did a great bit last night acknowledging O’Brien and even “interviewing” Coco. Good stuff.

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