This comes as a pretty big surprise to me!! A lot of extremely notable celebs were constantly stopping by the show and tweeting about how much they enjoyed it, so I figured it was doing pretty well. Guess I figured wrong!! After two seasons on air, TBS has announced they will be cancelling the comedian’s late night talk show. Hit the jump for details.
TBS just announced the last show will air tomorrow night. It’s been on the air for 2 seasons.
Now the bigger story. It looks like Conan did to George what Jay Leno did to Conan. You’ll recall, when Jay Leno came back to NBC, his 10 PM show tanked and killed Conan’s ratings.
Well Lopez had the 11 PM time slot for its first season, but then when Conan came to TBS a year ago he took over the 11 PM slot and Lopez moved to midnight — meaning George was relying on Conan to deliver a good lead-in.
But when the change was made, George’s audience plummeted 40%.
On Monday, Conan pulled in an anemic 0.5 rating in the key demographic (18 – 49) with 715,000 viewers — and that’s a pretty typical day. George’s ratings hovered around 0.2, with 400,000 viewers.
