Beginning September 4th, Comedy Central will begin rerunning each episode of Late Night With Conan O'Brien the day after it first airs on NBC. Matter of fact, the announced schedule calls for them to run an episode each day Monday-Friday at 7:00 PM and then to rerun that episode the following weekday at 1:00 in the afternoon. The press release also says two episodes will air yet again on Saturday and one on Sunday.
No word if NBC is going to stop airing a week-old Conan rerun early every morning as part of their "Late Night Overnight" block but if they do, they'll be running episodes that Comedy Central aired two or three times the previous week. It would also mean that every week, Conan and his crew produce four new episodes but between the two networks, viewers can watch 23 airings of five episodes of Late Night, most of them less than one week old.
I love the program but in an era where most people own video tape recorders, do we really need that many opportunities to see the Masturbating Bear and Preparation "H" Raymond?