Conan returns to late night on TBS

Iconic poster for Conan's recent comedy tour.

Ted Turner is probably doing a Mexican hat dance right now. Conan O’Brien will return to late night on basic-cable superstation TBS in November. Yes, the same TBS that brought you Frank Caliendo and and a slew of Tyler Perry TV projects.

Not long after Jay Leno recouped his precious Tonight Show timeslot, the announcement is kind of ironic in part because he will be taking George Lopez’ timeslot. But it seems that Lopez was one of the catalysts for the deal so no acrimony there. Fans looking for a little CoCo fix have been trying to get it anyway they can, either with his comedy tour or even driving to work.

R.I.P ’24′

Jack Bauer can finally catch his breath (or can he?). Fox is ending the hit TV show “24″ after this season but a film version is said to be in the pipeline. It appears that the terrorists have won. Here’s the link:

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/03/27/arts/television/27twentyfour.html?src=me

The show, which was innovative originally for being told in real-time (sorta), killing off fan-favorite characters even before Lost did and finally for the growing argument as to its use of torture (Bauer is all for it), is the second longest-running espionage thriller TV show right behind The Avengers.

In loving memory, here is a montage of just about everyone Jack has ever killed on the show with a running body count counter at the bottom. You might want to turn it down, unless you really like German heavy metal (Bauer is all for it).