Conan O’Brien-Produced Show Picked Up… by NBC?!?

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Conan O’Brien, who just had his last episode as host of The Tonight Show last Friday, is back in business with NBC… kind of. NBC has picked up an hour-long pilot produced by Conan’s production company, Conaco, called “Justice” (not the actual name yet, just a codename for now). The show’s premise is about a Supreme Court Justice who quits the courts to start his own legal practice.

Apparently when it comes to business, the “late night wars” do not matter and while it’s good that Conan’s company sold a pilot, I personally would have thought he would have shopped it somewhere else… possibly to a station that didn’t crush his dreams and almost ruin his career. I pose this question to you, Film Junk readers: if you were Conan, would you have sold a pilot to the network that treated you that badly, or would you have stuck it to the man and shopped it somewhere else?



  • Matthew

    As Conan said in his final message on The Tonight Show, he has enjoyed his work with NBC over the past 15 years. Even with the dust up that was going on over the Tonight Show, he still liked the company.

    I can see why he’d shop a show to NBC, and I can see him doing another show with them, though not a late night show.

  • xego

    hey if their checks don’t bounce what the hell

  • HFD

    Money has a funny way of repairing a damaged ego. Highest bidder wins. Or this could be part of the “retirement” settlement in which NBC agreed to telecast a Conaco production for an exorbitant fee.

  • Matt

    I have a sense that there is not that much bad blood between conan and NBC. On his final episode he said that even though they had differences on the issue of the tonight show he still viewed NBC as his home. So more power to conan

  • Matt B.

    Either way, Conan gets the last laugh.