I'm siding with Conan. Whether he got the Tonight Show promised to him under threat of leaving or not, the promise was given and is now being taken away. Anchorhead, you complain that the Tonight Show is too much like his old show, what did you expect it to be. The only reason the Tonight show under Jay didn't "look like his old show" was because Jay didn't have a show. Jay certainly didn't run the show the way Carson did. All of the hosts change the show to fit their own styles. Just what would Conan have to do to make it THE Tonight Show?

NBC wanted to move the Tonight Show out of its traditional timeslot, the slot its been in since before I was born. Conan could have agreed to it and kept "The Tonight show", but instead he refused because he thought the changed timeslot was not in the best interest of the Tonight Show. What NBC would have done to the Tonight Show is wrong. As for Leno being forced out of the Tonight Show, if Leno really wanted to keep the Tonight Show he should have been more vocal back then and refused to leave. If NBC had to choose back then between Leno and Conan, which do you think they would have chosen? Leno agreed to the 10 PM show, no one put a gun to his head to do it. It failed. What the NBC is doing now is just wrong and Leno could have ended this by just walking away and let Conan continue with the Tonight Show.

Ferris, give Conan a chance. He may grow on you. When he first took over Late Night from Letterman, I thought he was terrible, but he grew on me. I like him, I believe his concern for the Tonight Show and its legacy is legit.

Lord, how I miss Carson.