CONAN O'BRIEN ANNOUNCES NEW SHOW NAME

Thursday, September 02 2010 04:13

Conan O'Brien has unveiled the name of his new TBS late night show. And the winner is . . . Conan!

O'Brien made the revelation in a short video posted on his show's official TBS site -- although, as he noted, the hand-written announcement looked more like "Conaw."

Commentators on the web seemed to think the name is a good decision. MTV noted, "The solution to O'Brien's problem is indeed simple and elegant. He becomes the only late night host whose show is simply his name, a convention that has never really been used but is actually a brilliant idea. After all, it's unlikely that most fans ever knew the actual titles of any of O'Brien's previous shows -- the question was always, "Did you catch Conan last night?" It also puts the focus squarely on O'Brien and the idea that he is a singular personality who can carry a show all by himself."

Conan premieres on November 8th.