home bbs files messages ]

Forums before death by AOL, social media and spammers... "We can't have nice things"

   alt.fan.conan-obrien      Underrated late-night TV genius      6,300 messages   

[   << oldest   |   < older   |   list   |   newer >   |   newest >>   ]

   Message 5,652 of 6,300   
   Joseph Nebus to Jim Ellwanger   
   Re: Writers Strike: Day 93 - Conaco Prod   
   06 Feb 08 14:40:46   
   
   From: nebusj-@-rpi-.edu   
      
   Jim Ellwanger  writes:   
      
   >In article ,   
   > nebusj-@-rpi-.edu (Joseph Nebus) wrote:   
      
   >> 	Andy Richter Controls the Universe (wasn't it?  beloved show   
   >> 		but promptly cancelled)   
      
   >Hmm, I didn't think this was a Conaco production.   
      
   	Huh.  You're right.  According to Internet Movie Database the   
   canonical Conaco productions are:   
      
   	"The Tonight Show with Conan O'Brien" (2009) ... Production Company   
   	Man of Your Dreams (2008) (TV) ... Production Company   
   	"Andy Barker, P.I." (2007) ... Production Company   
   	Wildlife (2007) (TV) ... Production Company   
   	Haskett's Chance (2006) (TV) ... Production Company   
   	Marsha Potter Gets a Life (2005) (TV) ... Production Company   
   	Foster Hall (2004) (TV) ... Production Company   
   	Late Night with Conan O'Brien: 10th Anniversary Special (2003) (TV) ...   
   Production Company   
   	Beat Cops (2003) (TV) ... Production Company   
   	The Greg Giraldo Show (2002) (TV) ... Production Company   
   	50 Years of NBC Late Night (2001) (TV) ... Production Company   
   	"Lost" (2001/I) ... Production Company   
   	"Late Night with Conan O'Brien" (1993) ... Production Company (2001-),   
   Production Company   
      
   	... I'm assuming that The Greg Giraldo Show, Beat Cops, Foster   
   Hal, Marsha Potter Gets A Life, Haskett's Chance, and Wildlife were   
   pilots that didn't turn into serieses.   
      
   	Andy Richter Controls The Universe appers to have been ... well,   
   the listed production companies are Garfield Grove Productions, Pariah   
   Entertainment Group, Paramount Network Televisio Productions, and 20th   
   Century Fox Television.  Also, it was distributed in estonia by Kanal 2.   
      
      
   >I just upgraded to DirecTV's HD service (although my HDTV isn't actually   
   >in my house yet).  I'd heard that "Andy Richter Controls the Universe"   
   >had been running on the HDNet channel, but they don't seem to be airing   
   >it at present.  They are running "Arrested Development," but I've seen   
   >that more recently.   
      
   	There always seem to be reports of interesting shows running   
   in places that just can't be dug out from mundane sources like TV   
   listings or the like.  I think television may have finally given up   
   on entertaining people and gone right into annoying the audience.   
      
   --   
   								Joseph Nebus   
   ------------------------------------------------------------------------------   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)   

[   << oldest   |   < older   |   list   |   newer >   |   newest >>   ]


(c) 1994,  bbs@darkrealms.ca