New Conan O'Brien talk show to air on 3e

Emmy award-winning talk show host Conan Oâ€™Brien returns to our small screens for a new talk show for US cable channel TBS starting this Monday night, broadcast on 3e.

Conan Oâ€™Brien made worldwide headlines earlier this year after NBC paid $45 million to buy out his contract, enabling him to move to TBS to host his own show Conan.

The Irish-American talk show host originally hosted NBCâ€™s Late Night with Conan Oâ€™Brien which every evening followed the prestigious and long-running The Tonight Show hosted by Jay Leno.

In a high profile announcement in 2004, NBC officially declared that Conan O'Brien would take over as host of The Tonight Show in 2009, replacing Jay Leno after a seventeen year run and that Leno would get his own primetime variety show at 10pm, called The Jay Leno Show.

However, after only 7 months of Conan Oâ€™Brienâ€™s hosting of The Tonight Show NBC stated that they intended to move Jay Leno from primetime back to his original timeslot, with O'Brien's programme being pushed to shortly after midnight. Unhappy at this decision, Oâ€™Brien negotiated a $45 million severance deal with NBC to end his relationship with the network, in what was considered one of the worst PR cases ever handled by the corporation.

This year, Conan announced that he had signed a deal with TBS to host a talk show on their late night line-up. Of the move, Conan joked; â€œin three months Iâ€™ve gone from network television to Twitter to performing live in theatres, and now Iâ€™m headed to basic cable. My plan is working perfectly.â€™â€™

Conan will air on Monday, 15 November at 12 midnight on 3e.