XPost: rec.arts.tv, alt.fan.letterman   
   From: nospam@nospam.com   
      
   >>They offered Conan the TS a half hour later, he refused, and that was it.   
   >>Whatever the reasons, he was not a good fit for 11:35, as Leno's return to   
   >>his prior audience share seems to prove.   
      
      
   >   
   > Is Leno doing OK again? I haven't watched a single show since he returned   
   > to 11:35. The entire spectacle turned me off to both of them (but I rarely   
   > watched Conan anyway).   
      
      
   Not as good as I thought. From the Tom Shales article posted about by garyd   
   below:   
      
   "The last laugh may be on Leno, but not earned by Leno. He seems genuinely   
   to have been stung by his new reputation as a two-timing back-stabber, and   
   though his post-Conan ratings are not disastrous they aren't what they used   
   to be either. He's down 16 percent in the numbers compared with what he got   
   pre-Conan, and reportedly his rating with the 18-to-49-year-old demographic   
   is just about the same that Conan got. Leno looks wounded now, damaged; he's   
   like a guy who fought his way into a party that the other guests then left   
   in protest or out of boredom."   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)