Viral Video: Late-Night Debacle Makes for Good Jokes at Least (Plus BoomTown's Zucker Interview, Pre-Disaster)

Although BoomTown completely enjoyed having dinner with Hollywood agency overlord Ari Emanuel last week at the Consumer Electronics Show, I have little interest in the money and scheduling machinations that broke out last week over NBC Universal’s late-night television talk shows. But I do love the roundelay of online videos this Tinseltown mess has created. Here is a selection, as well as my D7 interview with NBC head Jeff Zucker, in which he talked about the changes to the lineup that are now being changed back.
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Total Request Live

So Carson Daly, of all people, turns out to be an unlikely geek–but he sounded pretty sharp onstage interviewing a clutch of tech figures last night at the opening of AlwaysOn OnHollywood conference, the Tony Perkins-led event being held at the Roosevelt Hotel in Hollywood through tomorrow. The late-night television host is involved with Demand [...]