He talked about how he and Conan were slighted (aka screwed over) by NBC and he even took a shot at Jay Leno (and rightly so!):

Conan O’Brien’s new late night talk show premieres Monday at 11pm on TBS. Be there!

Team Conan takes over the Internet

NBC is moving Jay Leno back to 11:30. What about Conan? (Photo credit TMZ.)

NBC experimented with a late night comedy show before the local news in order to save money and because they really didn’t have anything besides Southland to put on at 10pm. (And we all remember how that turned out.)

The move to 10pm proved to be a poor lead-in to the local newscasts, prompting stations to complain about The Jay Leno Show experiment being a ratings disaster.

NBC hasn’t yet announced exactly how they’re going to be able to put Jay back at 11:30 since Conan O’Brien has been in that time zone since he took over The Tonight Show from Leno. It would likely go the way of one of these possible scenarios:

1. NBC moves The Jay Leno Show to 11:30, but shortens it to a half hour and then runs The Tonight Show at 12:00 and Late Night with Jimmy Fallon at 1am.
2. NBC moves The Jay Leno Show to 11:30-12:00 and also shortens The Tonight Show with Conan O’Brien to a half hour from 12:00-12:30. Jimmy’s show stays the same, cause everyone’s already sleeping anyway.
3. NBC moves The Jay Leno Show to the 11:30-12:30 slot and Conan’s Tonight Show moves to 12:30-1:30. (This is probably the least likely scenario, since Conan fought for years to get the 11:30 slot and would almost definitely not go back to 12:30 on NBC.)
4. NBC gives The Tonight Show back to Jay Leno and Conan gets the $50 million buyout in his contract and is free to entertain offers for the 11:30pm slot on ABC or FOX.

You’d have to figure that if scenario #4 happens ABC would jump at grabbing Conan for 11:30 and push Jimmy Kimmel back to 12:30 to compete with NBC and CBS. Conan – Kimmel? I would so watch that!

And FOX would love to have Conan at 11:30 to have a late night comedy show that would actually COMPETE. (Remember The Magic Johnson Show? Enough said.)

While it remains unclear as to which path the network will take, one thing is crystal clear: NBC doesn’t know what the hell they are doing.

The original:

And then the second chorus was heavily sampled in Jason Derulo’s “Watcha Say”:

And of course “Hide and Seek” made an appearance on Australian Idol in Season 5 by contestant Ben McKenzie:

What really made the song famous was it’s inclusion in a scene of the (now-defunct) teen drama The O.C.:

That inspired a Saturday Night Live Digital Short parody of The O.C. finale, called “Dear Sister”…

Check this out here (it was playing automatically).

And then someone parodied the parody on YouTube:

And then, of course, there are parodies of the parodies and parodies of the parodies of the parodies. And parodies using Lord of the Rings scenes and parodies using The Office, etc.

So what does Imogen Heap think of the sampling, at least in Jason Derulo’s hit version of the song?

She spoke about it recently with the BBC:

Finally, I have to ask you about Jason DeRulo’s single Watcha Say – which samples Hide and Seek. It seems to have split fans right down the middle: Some love what he’s done and others are literally out for his blood. What do you think of it?

I really believe a song has a life of its own, so when I heard his version, I actually thought it was pretty good.

Even the first time? I found it took a bit of getting used to…

First time I heard it, yes. I understand that for some people, it’s their favourite song and it feels like he’s butchered it and butchered their memory of it. But, to me, I’ve heard it in so many contexts – by a choir, by a marching band – I loved that it was completely different.

You just can’t keep a good song down!

Thanks for listening along!

Word is that NBC is considering a spin-off sitcom that would star Al Roker in that wig and the two Ewoks called “Roker’s Star Wars Apartment.” Hell, I would watch that, wouldn’t you?

The reason: the John Wells (“ER”) produced show has a “dark tone” that wasn’t suitable for the 9′o’clock time slot. What does NBC have on in the 10pm slot? Oh right, 5 nights on the Jay Leno Show, which happens to be bleeding viewers left and right these days, as Jay Leno struggles to get into a groove with his new digs.

The cancellation of Southland brings back all the bad feelings towards NBC that I had when they cancelled The Black Donnelly’s, another critically-acclaimed drama that was beginning to establish a solid fan base, but never got the chance. Starring Olivia Wilde (“House“), the show about an Irish crime family brought a fresh perspective to primetime crime dramas and was the subject of constant discussion and fan promotion on the Internet.

But all of that wasn’t good enough and NBC cancelled the show over the objections of fans and critics alike.

And let’s not forget the Patricia Arquette drama, Medium, which NBC showed to good ratings for years, but then abruptly cancelled. Only to see CBS purchase to solidify its Friday night schedule between Ghost Whisperer and Numbers.

And now it has happened again, although the situation with Southland, a fresh-faced and gritty cop drama staring Benjamin McKenzie, is further complicated by the face that NBC’s reason for cancelling it is NBC’s fault to begin with… that it’s “dark tone” should be shown later on in the night at 10pm. Of course, that’s exactly where NBC stuck the Jay Leno Show EVERY night of the week, preventing them from showing ANY shows with a “dark tone,” viewers would be led to believe.

Except that when you look at other shows on NBC that one might consider to have a dark tone, like Law & Order: Special Victims’ Unit or even the original Law & Order, which NBC scheduled at 9pm and 8pm respectively this season. Are those shows less dark than Southland? They certainly are capable of carrying the same amount of gun use and violence, if losing a bit of their grityness over the years, and NBC hasn’t used the 10pm time slot excuse to pull or otherwise shift the timeslots of those shows, have they?

Upon further review, the cancellation of Southland really comes down to a money play by NBC, steadily running as the fourth-place network these days. Stone Philips’ Dateline is currently in the 9pm slot that was supposed to become home to Southland and has been carrying ratings similar to those of the cop drama’s performance last season.

So why has NBC chosen not to follow their plan if it would get them similarly good ratings with a critically-acclaimed cop drama with a proven ratings past? Well, Southland is produced by Warner Brothers Studios, which would require NBC to pay some hefty licensing fees as part of airing the show.

Basically NBC decided that they’d rather pay less for similiar ratings, damn what the fans of the show think and damn what the critics say.

Not only should NBC be arrested for such a selfish decision, but they deserve the reduced ratings they will get because of it. The much-younger skewing demographics for Southland will not be tuning in for Dateline and will look for another show to follow, preferably on a network not known for cancelling popular shows on their updraft.

At 9pm on Friday night, that might very ironically turn out to be CBS’ Medium. Or maybe ABC’s Ugly Betty. Or the additional viewers may flock to FOX’s Dollhouse, giving the struggling drama the jolt in viewership it might need to be renewed.

Maybe NBC is happy with it’s dueling hospital dramas the network desperately clung too in the absense of John Wells’ ER going off the air. Mercy and Trauma both seem promising scripted vehicles, if not both carrying the same excitement factor. But two hospital dramas on the same network isn’t likely to work for very long. I wonder if NBC realizes that.

Either way, NBC continues in it’s tradition of making stupid decisions that all but guarantee it staying in fourth place. And even Jay Leno can’t help them with that.

RELATED: Southland’s Michael Cudlitz Will Never Work for NBC Again (NY Mag)

ALSO: Solving NBC’s 10PM Problem: Talib Morgan thinks NBC’s best bet is to really mix up their scheduling, with a 12-minute drama.