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TBS, the cable network owned by Time Warner, announced Monday that it will create a new late-night show for Conan O'Brien, who left The Tonight Show in January after NBC told him it was giving the 11:30 p.m. time slot back to Jay Leno.

Did you miss him? Jay Leno returns tonight to his long-time gig as host of the Tonight Show, and NBC is hoping it will be like he never left. Leno's first guests are Jamie Foxx, Olympic skiier Lindsay Vonn (straight from the Vancouver closing ceremonies, I hope she's awake!) and country singer Brad...

Conan O'Brien is out of a job now that his last gig on "The Tonight Show" has aired, but like many unemployed people, he'll probably find losing his job to be the best move of his career. The $32.5 million severance he's getting from NBC is enough to take care of him for life, but that's not the...

Our long national nightmare is over: Conan O'Brien and NBC are parting ways in peace, if not amity. In a deal expected to be announced officially later Thursday, the network will pay the Tonight Show host $32 million to walk away.

NBC Universal chairman Jeff Zucker is spending $40 million of General Electric's money to get rid of Conan O'Brien. NBC was contractually bound to give O'Brien $40 million if it canceled the show -- but it also buys Zucker a non-disparagement clause from the late-night comic.

Out of luck and out of jobs as the nation slowly tries to emerge from a recession, many Americans are finding in Conan O'Brien what they can't find elsewhere -- dignity in telling The Man to take a hike. In O'Brien's fight to keep his job as host of "The Tonight Show" and its coveted 11:35 p.m....

With less than two months to go before the launch of Jay Leno's new prime time show, NBC is ramping up the publicity push. Today, that means the debut of The Jay Leno Show's website, which offers a taste of the new program's flavor -- if something utterly bland can be said to have a flavor, that...

On Tuesday, TV personality Ed McMahon died at 86 at Ronald Reagan UCLA Medical Center in Los Angeles. Most famous for his 30-year run as Johnny Carson's couchwarmer on NBC's Tonight Show, McMahon's affably goofy presence -- providing a human laugh track as he chortled heartily at the boss's wry...