Conan doesn't want his NBC-bashing to be muzzled
In addition to the severance pay, talks between Conan and NBC have bogged down over the provision prohibiting Conan O'Brien from trashing NBC, according to TMZ. Conan's reps don't want him to be gagged for a long time. Meanwhile, TMZ is also reporting that "the network believes it can make $40 million in profits off of Leno the first year he's back and that they would lose $5 mil on Conan if he stayed. So NBC views the whole Conan buyout as a net savings."
Letterman reacts to Leno's speech: Jay, you "don't hang around" NBC!
Letterman's monologue: Isn't funny Leno always turns up at the scene of the crime?
Quentin Tarantino: I'll direct "Late Shift 2: The Rolling Thunder of Revenge"
Watch Conan mock NBC en español // Conan on Chinese animation
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Adult Swim offers Conan his own talk show // Listen to "The Ballad of Conan"
Chelsea Handler tells Leno she's on "Team Ellen"
Larry David wins Lifetime Achievement Award — catch him next on "Marriage Ref"
The Writer's Guild of America is honoring the "Curb Your Enthusiasm" creator with its most prestigious award. Meanwhile, David is going to film a cameo as a judge on his buddy Jerry Seinfeld's reality show.
Elisabeth Hasselbeck makes her "SportsCenter" debut
Watch Tim Hasselbeck's wife swap jobs and make her NFL predictions on ESPN. PLUS: ESPN pits Elisabeth vs. Matt Hasselbeck.
"Push" TV show in the works
The series will be based on the 2009 movie starring Dakota Fanning and Camille Belle.
Starz cancels "Head Case," no word on "Crash"
The Ali Wentworth therapy comedy won't be coming back.
"Gossip Girl" taps William Baldwin as Serena's dad
Billy Baldwin will play William van der Woodsen.
Is Tim Tebow's ex-girlfriend an "American Idol" finalist?
The girl the legendary Florida QB was photographed with last year appears to have made it to Hollywood.
Shonda Rhimes gets another ABC med drama, "Reno 911" team to NBC
Rhimes' "Off the Map" revolves around three doctors who practice in a tropical clinic. ABC also ordered the medical examiner drama "Body of Evidence." Meanwhile, NBC has ordered "The Strip" from "Reno 911" co-creators/stars Thomas Lennon and Robert Ben Garant, about a Hooters-type restaurant near Las Vegas. PLUS: Fox, ABC and CBS order, respectively, "Nevermind Nirvana," "Happy Endings" and "The Odds."
An exit deal is expected to be 
"The reason you're not seeing hundreds of people show up in the rain to support Jay Leno is because his fans are your parents, and they're bundling up and complaining about how their joints hurt when it rains," says Dennis Romero. The Conan vs. Leno fight, he says, is "a battle between generations, with the geeky, brainy, coddled millennial kids clearly weighing-in for O'Brien. He's an honorary member of gen-y, and "I'm with Coco" has become their battle cry."
