LOS ANGELES, Jan. 11 (UPI) -- Conan O'Brien is seriously considering leaving NBC after the U.S. network announced plans to move "The Tonight Show" to 12:05 a.m., sources say.
NBC ousted beloved "Tonight" host Jay Leno at the end of last season and gave the position to O'Brien to keep O'Brien from moving to another network. NBC then gave Leno his own nightly, hour-long, 10 p.m. chat series, "The Jay Leno Show." When the prime-time series failed to be a strong lead-in for local news broadcasts, however, NBC announced it would push Leno's show back to 11:35 p.m., shorten it to 30 minutes and air "Tonight" at 12:05 a.m, followed by "Late Show with Jimmy Fallon" at 1:05 a.m.