Books never looked better

This week NBC finally decided to cut their losses and cancel the abysmally rated Jay Leno Show. And now their big brilliant plan is to put Leno back on the air at 11:35pm, push Conan and The Tonight Show to 12:05am and put poor Jimmy Fallon on at 1am.

I’m hoping Conan and Fallon bolt because the way they’ve been treated is reprehensible. Sure, Conan’s ratings have been less than impressive but that’s because no matter how much you love late night talk shows no one wants to watch 3 plus hours of them! It’s much more likely that viewers are watching series programming from 10-11pm on Fox, ABC or CBS and then staying with that channel for news at 11pm and into late night TV if they’re so inclined. So Letterman, obviously, is going to have a better lead in than poor Conan who was stabbed in the back by Leno before he even stepped on air.

Remember how one of my new year’s wishes was for people to just quit and be gone? Well, Jay Leno you’re number one on my list of people I want to disappear. I never thought you were funny, but I did think you seemed like a nice person. Now I think you seem like a talentless egomaniac who has not only ruined the success of Conan and Jimmy but also taken down a whole network. Wow. Kudos to you, Leno. That was huge. And yes, I know it wasn’t your idea, but you could have walked out with some class when you retired from the Tonight Show. Instead you hung on for dear life at 10pm. What a pathetic, selfish, dickweed move that was. Bravo.

Now, of course, Leno is not totally to blame. The network executives at NBC are obviously the biggest bunch of morons to hit television since Peter Liguori took over at FOX and made the brilliant move of cancelling Arrested Development. What? Discovery Channel has hired Liguori as their new COO? Well, I would just love to comment on that but I’m too busy thowing up in my mouth.

There are people out there who understand business AND entertainment. People who can balance a budget AND have actual creative ideas. Not retreads of old ideas. CSI Mars? Greenlight!

And trust me; I am not one of those people so I’m not campaigning for myself here. I hate Excel spreadsheets. There is no place for me as an executive. But I have met people who could do both well. So why do we keep seeing the same jackasses hired over and over again?

And why when we were already subjected to a movie called The Pacifier with Vin Diesel as a Navy Seal/Babysitter, do we now need a movie called The Spy Next Door with Jackie Chan (the man who is ruining the Karate Kid franchise – don’t even get me started on that) as a Spy/Babysitter? Isn’t this the same movie? And wasn’t it a lame idea to begin with?

It’s only week two of 2010 and already I’m feeling let down by the entertainment industry. Things better turn around or I’m going to have to take up reading.