‘Conan’ Last Guest Will Be Jack Black, As Audiences Return For TBS Show’s Final Two Weeks

Michael Schneider Variety Editor at LargeThe National Academy of Television Arts & Sciences is handing out the awards for this year’s broadcast portion of the 48th Annual Daytime Emmy Awards, airing on CBS.Among the big winners: “Jeopardy!” once again picked up award for best game show. Executive producer Mike Richards dedicated the award to late host Alex Trebek.“We’ve heard from so many of you since he passed and we know how much he meant to you,” Richards said.

Conan O'Brien's nearly three-decades long stint as a late-night host is over. The 58-year-old TV personality said goodbye to his long-running TBS series, , on Thursday night.O'Brien's celebrity friends turned out for the goodbye episode.

Michael Schneider Variety Editor at LargeConan O’Brien ended his 11-year run on TBS’ “Conan” by touting the “intersection between smart and stupid.” And that’s why, perhaps it was all too appropriate that final guest Jack Black wound up on stage wearing a walking boot for a sprained ankle — an injury he received while rehearsing a song and dance number he had planned for O’Brien’s finale.The irony of the moment: As originally planned, Black was pre-taping a big musical number that involved a

Conan O’Brien brought his 28-year career in late-night television to a close with a sweet list of thank yous, bringing an end to his linear small-screen career that has consisted of over 4,000 hours of TV.

Michael Schneider Variety Editor at LargeWhen then-Turner Entertainment president Steve Koonin pitched Conan O’Brien on launching a show at TBS, he was upfront with the host: We won’t be able to deliver you an audience as big as the one you had at NBC. But you can do whatever you want.“He was true to his word,” said “Conan” executive producer Jeff Ross.

Michael Schneider Variety Editor at LargeThe National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences is prepping for a return to normalcy in 2022, including a live, in-person Daytime Emmys at the Pasadena Civic Auditorium. But that’s next year.

Michael Schneider Variety Editor at LargeWhen Discovery launched a new initiative with No Kid Hungry in 2019, the goal was to deliver a billion meals to hungry children in five years. They’ve already pulled it off with years to spare — but the campaign isn’t over.“We’re not done,” said Jessica Beatus, Discovery’s group vice president for standards and social good.

Michael Schneider Variety Editor at LargeReimagining a classic TV format is difficult under any circumstances. But the creative team behind NBC’s new primetime take on “College Bowl” had to do it in the middle of a pandemic.

Michael Schneider Variety Editor at Large“Ted Lasso” and “The Late Show with Stephen Colbert” are among the first batch of this year’s Peabody Award winners.

Michael Schneider Variety Editor at Large“RuPaul’s Drag Race” led all programs at this year’s virtual Critics Choice Real TV Awards, with two nods — for best competition series and best ensemble cast in an unscripted series.

Michael Schneider Variety Editor at LargeThe 28th Annual Screen Actors Guild Awards will take place next year on February 27, 2022. That was the date originally reserved for the 94th Academy Awards — but with the Oscars moving to March 27, the SAG Awards will now fill that date.

Wizards of the Coast and video games TV network G4 have come together to host a D&D live event, bringing a star-studded, adventuring party of celebrities together to play the role-playing adventure board game Dungeons and Dragons.

Michael Schneider Variety Editor at LargeThe anthology Emmy category only lasted a year, but a variation of “outstanding dramatic program,” which mostly recognized individual episodes of anthologies such as “Hallmark Hall of Fame,” continued until the 1970s.Now, we’re in a new age of anthologies, spurred by filmmakers eager to tell their stories in episodic fashion (yes, I know, I grit my teeth every time another director claims they’re actually making a series of movies, or one 10-hour film,

Michael Schneider Variety Editor at LargeThe Denver-based TV festival SeriesFest is once again going virtual this year, unveiling a lineup of events that include the world premiere of Peacock’s docuseries “Epstein’s Shadow: Ghislaine Maxwell,” as well as conversations with guests including actors Jennifer Garner and Mark Duplass, and YouTube chief business officer Robert Kyncl, and panels dissecting “The Daily Show with Trevor Noah” and much more.The seventh year of the event, dubbed

Jack Black is set to be the final guest on Conan O’Brien’s Conan.The TBS late night show will be ending on June 24, after running since 2010.The final string of guests begins with Patton Oswalt on June 14, and will also include Mila Kunis, Bill Hader, Dana Carvey, and will end with Black on June 24.Check out the full list of Conan guests here:Monday June 14: Patton OswaltTuesday June 15: Martin ShortWednesday June 16: JB SmooveThursday June 17: Mila KunisMonday June 21: Bill HaderTuesday June

Michael Schneider Variety Editor at LargeThis TV genre suffered a scandal in 1950s that nearly wiped it off screens, but endures as one of the most popular programming types today. Now, the history of these shows finally has a physical home of its own.

Michael Schneider Variety Editor at LargeA year after KROQ veteran Ted Stryker and radio partner Kevin Klein moved to the station’s A.M.

Jack Black has gone viral on TikTok after crashing a high school graduation photoshoot in Los Angeles.A photographer, going by the name Visionary Daniel, posted a video of Black on Instagram and TikTok, explaining how the School of Rock star stumbled into the ceremony at Griffith Observatory in Los Angeles.“We found Jack Black during a graduation shoot,” Daniel wrote in the caption of the video.

It wasn’t the School of Rock, but Jack Black attended a different graduation.