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Lopez Tonight Cancelled

For the time being, I assume they'll just replace it with reruns of LT because Conan's also going into reruns next week, but then I assume they'll replace that timeslot with more syndicated fare. Word is that The Office might take over the timeslot and they might eventually replace with it an original show. (Makes sense because they're replacing their "Office" block with "Big Bang Theory") I'm sure the 12AM timeslot belongs to Conan as well per his signing deal. I think it would be a good idea to start Conan at it's 11pm EST timeslot, and then replay at 2am EST, instead of 1am, so it can actually start at 11 for satellite subscribers on the west coast.
 
So I guess giving Lopez a night time talk show, wasn't a very good idea after all.
Will they replace him with Tyler Perry reruns?
 
Well he lasted two years in an already overcrowded market. I mean we have five late night talk shows on ABC, NBC (2), CBS(2) and then Conan, there is only so much audience to go around
 
As Rodney Ho's AJC article noted, that's two late night shows aimed at minorities getting snipped--BET has placed The Mo'Nigue Show 'on hiatus' (I believe NBC officially placed The A-Team in that sort of purgatory). And now TBS' Lopez Tonight is done. Yikes.


gregg75 said:
So I guess giving Lopez a night time talk show, wasn't a very good idea after all.
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You think all TBS programming is bad, so your take here isn't particularly surprising.

So that we're spared a thread full of mindless 'he sucks, that's why nobody watched him' posts--let's stick to the numbers. Clearly, the Conan audience didn't help Lopez. They didn't stick around enough for the midnight show, and ostensibly folks that liked Lopez at 11pm/10CT didn't follow him to midnight.
 
As much as I like Conan, he is having trouble competing with Jon Stewart. If TBS were to move Conan's start time a half-hour, he may be able to grab those Stewart viewers that can't stand Colbert (and have a five-minute head-start against Leno and Letterman). I don't know if that would work, but it might be worth a risk to save Conan's show (and give him a consistent lead-in).
 
One person who's not interested in hosting a show on TBS late night is comedian Kevin Pollak, who yesterday tweeted this:

"What's that, TBS? You want my Chat Show for your late night line-up? Ha!! I'm stayin' on the internet, you son-of-a-bitch!"
 
Over a year ago I posted on here that George Lopez's talk show was going to be canceled. My prediction was off by one year.

As a talk show host, George couldn't cut it. But in all fairness neither have dozens of others who have tried late night shows either. Remember Chevy Chase?

IMHO George should create another sit-com, or better yet bring back his former ABC show on another network. The George Lopez Show was funny, and the cast was great. That is where George's talent shines is a situation comedy, not as a talk show host.
 
The Voice of Reason said:
Over a year ago I posted on here that George Lopez's talk show was going to be canceled. My prediction was off by one year.

As a talk show host, George couldn't cut it. But in all fairness neither have dozens of others who have tried late night shows either. Remember Chevy Chase?

IMHO George should create another sit-com, or better yet bring back his former ABC show on another network. The George Lopez Show was funny, and the cast was great. That is where George's talent shines is a situation comedy, not as a talk show host.
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I think one issue with his show was that it was overly produced. The best late-night shows are very fluid in their presentation. They don't take well-timed camera shots of the audience laughing to be funny. They don't take enormous sound stages with tons of lights and colors and noise. Though I admit that I wasn't a regular viewer of Lopez Tonight, I found several of these elements in the show the few times I watched. A simple, off-the-cuff production style was part of what shot Conan O'Brien to the top when he was at NBC. It was a no-frills, no-BS kind of show, and it worked.

The other thing that's working against Lopez and Conan is a heavily fragmented -- and steadily decreasing -- cable TV audience. I read an article yesterday which noted that cable TV providers are losing subscribers at a pace that has doubled since just last year. For the tech savvy, a cable package that includes networks like TBS is not a good buy anymore, even with Conan and George Lopez and Tyler Perry and Major League Baseball and whatever else you want to throw on the pile.
 
I saw Lopez Tonight a few times before and I agree with other posters that it seems way over-produced. It's the same issue I have with Jimmy Fallon's show. The rest of the late night talk shows don't really have this problem, imo.
 
I'm surprised no one brought up his ethnicity like a few people in the media has. But this guy is not that funny. Yes part of it is fragmenting....but this guy is a AAA comedian. Not a major one. He's good for a night here and there or an ocassional guest. But it takes a special person that can handle everynight like a Johnny Carson, or Jay Leno,and when you start having three times as many late night talk show host, it gets watered down. Even Johnny admitted that 90 minutes a night started to take a toll on him. To keep him , it was reduced to an hour. There are guys that can stand up for 5 minutes or so as a guest, and there's a few that can host a show everynight...and that's hard.
 
Its not about his race. TBS said they want diverse programing when they picked up Conan and Ice Cube new sitcom back in 2010. The show was not funny and the ratings proved it. His sitcom was funny as hell espically the grandma but it was ratings. Who is gonna stay up after 12am to watch a talkshow when most people espically in Los Angeles have to get up early to beat traffic in this jungle we call home. Keenen Ivory Wayans had a talkshow back in 1997 and that show was funny just not enough viewers and ratings I was in Kansas City when that show went on the air and WDAF TV pushed it to 12am just like Lopez. George is a great comeidan and does alot in the hispanic community and he tried his best to bring late nights back just didnt have a strong following. Not to mention its a cable show. Lopez does comedy tours that sell out plus his movies so hes not hurting just the crew behind the show
 
You know, George Lopez might have made it with substantially the same show in DAYTIME as a syndicated effort...it would have had gloss and cross-demographic appeal you don't see in other daytime programming, and hit the audience at a time when it's more prepared for a high energy, high-gloss, highly produced show. At 3 or 4 PM it'd be a hit, just like Rosie O'Donnell was for years with a similar approach.

Late night audiences, conversely, like a more informal, loosely structured program.

I think to a degree, Conan has the same problem, although he'd work best a little later in the day. His show would work better as a 7 PM prime-access offering.

Sometimes it's not the show that's the problem, it's the time slot.
 
Bob1370 said:
You know, George Lopez might have made it with substantially the same show in DAYTIME as a syndicated effort...it would have had gloss and cross-demographic appeal you don't see in other daytime programming, and hit the audience at a time when it's more prepared for a high energy, high-gloss, highly produced show. At 3 or 4 PM it'd be a hit, just like Rosie O'Donnell was for years with a similar approach.
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Telepictures, the producer of Lopez Tonight, originally had intentions of selling the show as a first run syndicated talk show ala Arsenio Hall. However, after many local stations passed, TBS decided to pick it up and put it in late night.
 
Starbucks said:
...There are guys that can stand up for 5 minutes or so as a guest, and there's a few that can host a show everynight...and that's hard.
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You know what, I was thinking the same thing but didn't know how to say it. You are 100% correct here. This definition fits Lopez exactly. He's funny in small doses, only so much at a time.
 
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