If I were considerably older, I would get a serious case of deja vu out of the recent events at NBC's primetime. Luckily, the history is all documented, or else I would have been surprised at how low this network's executives can get in order to attain some ratings. But I'm not surprised, and David Letterman is not surprised - this is all a part of the history repeating itself.
This time NBC's victim is it's brightest star, a funny guy who devoted 16 years of his life working and flourishing for the network at an unreasonable time slot, waiting for his big break at the Tonight Show. When the wait finally pays off, he leaves his old life behind and moves from New York to Los Angeles for the show. Now, he is getting treated like trash just because Jay Leno couldn't get his new show to perform in the ratings.
Conan is acting like a real gentleman, but showing that he is not a pushover despite his reputation as a nice and soft guy. Staying at The Tonight Show is his biggest wish at the moment, but there are much more important things than that, something that the NBC executives will never understand. What Conan cares for more than his own career is the show itself and the show of Jimmy Fallon, which used to be his own. That's why he won't do with the planned shiftings.
Conan will have no problem finding another job, probably another show of his own, on another network. Jay Leno can learn a lot from him, but he will probably stay and take all the spotlights on himself.
