Tonight Show with Conan O'Brien to air on CNBC Europe

CNBC have confirmed that they will continue to air the new Tonight Show with Conan O'Brien which is due to start in June 2009.

However Late Night with Jimmy Fallon will be dropped. They want to ensure that they have room for their business news, but I do not see how having Jimmy Fallon on weekends would hurt.

I like US talkshows, it is just a shame they get treated badly by UK channels. Look at how many UK channels have bounced around Late Show with David Letterman in the past ten years?

Yes. I assume you got this from my site - http://www.lateshowuk.com/shows/tonight-show/2101/plans-for-cnbc-in-2009

I know that some people like the US talkshows like Leno, Letterman, O'Brien, Fallon etc. - but they just don't seem to do well in the UK.

Purely personally, I find them really dull. The coverage - both of interviews and music is really conservative, the show seems to be about the host as much as the guest, and often the guests are just on to blatantly plug something. The interviews never seem to be anything more than superficial...

Parkinson they are not... (In fact - even though I'm not a huge fan - the Jonathan Ross show is better made and more watchable - though still suffers from the host being more important than the guest at times)

To be fair to CNBC they've been showing Leno and O'Brien pretty much consistently since NBC Europe closed. But the proof would be in Letterman considering it's been on Sky1, Paramount, ITV2, ITV4 and Diva TV, it's not really lasted on any of them. They gave Leno a run on Ftn at one point, but that didn't last too long.

I can watch the opening monologues on some of them, but they can get rather tiresome.

It'll be interesting to see what affect having Leno on at 10pm will do to other US networks and programmes.

I'm surprised The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson hasn't been given a chance on british telly, especially since he's a scot.

And in my opinion funnier than Letterman, Leno, Conan O'Brien, Kimmel or Daly.

I dread to think how bad Fallon will be.