Lost in the Cone Zone

Conan O’Brien is not to everyone’s taste. That’s why it was a big risk when NBC decided, in September 2004, to name him the next host of The Tonight Show, effective 2009. Since the announcement, Jay Leno has continued to win his time slot by a wide margin while playing the affable comedy professional to David Letterman’s crotchety uncle. At 58, Leno, the hardest-working man in show business since James Brown, is not ready to hang it up soon writes Jim Windolf.

Another complication arose in NBC’s changeover plan last month, when the modest Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson, which holds down 12:30 a.m. for CBS, beat Late Night with Conan O’Brien in the ratings for an entire week. This had never happened before, and it came at a bad time for the network and O’Brien. Out of all the late-night hosts, with the possible exception of the sleepy Jimmy Kimmel, Ferguson seems the least ambitious. Unlike O’Brien, Letterman, Leno, and Jon Stewart— all of whom seethe to be the best in their field— Ferguson seems content to put on a nice little show. A former film director and sitcom second banana, he has the relaxed manner of someone who has already proved himself, at least to his own satisfaction. He’s warm, non-neurotic. He would probably make a great dinner-party guest. But his show, which is friendly, civil, and homey, is more about keeping a time slot warm than creating something new or setting the ratings on fire.

So it must have been a shock to O’Brien and his bosses when Ferguson won the week. Especially given that Leno— who was energized by the writers’ strike, during which he trounced a fully staffed Letterman— continues to pull big numbers, while, not coincidentally, taking frequent on-air jabs at NBC. So, has the network placed its bet on the wrong man?

The executives seem committed to going through with it. If they change their minds and decide to keep Leno on at 11:30 p.m., they must pay O’Brien a penalty of a reported $45 million. (Which they can certainly afford, given that The Tonight Show brings in an estimated $160 million per year, according to Variety.) But word leaked out of NBC earlier this week that the network will formally name Saturday Night Live alumnus Jimmy Fallon as the next host of Late Night, suggesting the plan is a go. The announcement is expected to take place tomorrow, during the network’s upfront presentation.

Furthermore, NBC Universal recently sold its 34-acre Burbank lot, the longtime home of The Tonight Show and other NBC programs, according to an April 24 internal corporate memo scooped up by Broadcasting & Cable. Major renovation work is under way at the Universal Stage One lot in Universal City, which was home to The Jack Benny Show between 1961 and 1965, and the leaked memo went on to say that “The Tonight Show With Conan O’Brien … will move to Universal Stage One in 2009.” In January, the Los Angeles Times reported that O’Brien had purchased a home in Brentwood—complete with wine cellar, sauna, screening room, and other L.A. amenities— for more than the $10.5 million asking price. So it looks like the changeover is really going to happen, even though Leno will likely receive offers for the 11:30 slot from ABC and Fox and maybe even an offer for an Arsenio-style syndication deal from Sony.

But if O’Brien’s brand of innovative comedy proves to be like a dog whistle that can be heard only by his current group of roughly 2 million regular viewers, NBC could be in danger of losing a time slot, a show, and a way of watching TV that it pretty much invented in the 1950s. All that pressure could be enough to wilt the host’s famous pompadour.

On a wall to the left of his desk, O’Brien keeps framed photographs of his heroes— Letterman, Ernie Kovacs, Steve Allen, Johnny Carson, Jack Paar. There’s no picture of Leno, and that’s significant. Leno is a joke-delivery machine who excels in taking a newspaper story and making it the pretext for a punch line. He hits his target about half the time. He’s a wholesaler, the Wal-Mart of comedy, and he treats his viewers like customers. When a given joke doesn’t work, he dismisses it with a wave of his hand— unlike his predecessor, the nimble Carson, who relished the challenge of charming laughs out of a failed laugh line by taking his audience gently to task, or by blaming his writers, or simply by giving the camera a quizzical look.

O’Brien is no joke-delivery machine. He does all right in the craft of setup and punch line, but he took off as a performer only when he was able to reproduce, before the camera, what had made him so funny in the writers’ rooms where he had worked as a contributor to The Simpsons and Saturday Night Live. And it shows: a lot of Late Night’s bits have the feel of something that made an unshaven comedy writer do a snot laugh at 2 a.m.

O’Brien’s opening monologue is more a series of gestures than jokes. He points to audience members for no reason, performs his “string-dance,” spins on his mark like a fool, paddles an invisible rowboat, and makes a fetish of his hair to a degree that would do Larry Sanders proud. Whenever a female audience member shouts, “I love you, Conan!” he replies with a curt “I love you, too, sir.” It’s a dumb line that always gets a laugh. If the audience seems overexcited, he says, in a falsetto voice, “Keep cool, my babies.” So his opening remarks, instead of serving as a satirical digest of the day’s events, function mainly as a way to establish a goofy atmosphere, which he, in moments of mock grandiosity, calls the Cone Zone.

In trying to pull off this high silliness, O’Brien has more in common with Steve Martin or Andy Kaufman or even Chuck Barris (in his Gong Show years) than any of his fellow late-night hosts. He wants to re-create the mood you fell into when you were eight years old laughing hysterically over nothing with your cousins in the backseat of your dad’s station wagon. On the nights he succeeds, it’s great. When he fails, a dead-air mood falls over Late Night, and we find ourselves in public-access hell.

His contemporary and main comedy rival (to my mind), Jon Stewart, makes a perfect foil to O’Brien. Where O’Brien depends on slapstick, Stewart goes for verbal wit. Where Conan tries to create a comedy candyland that exists at a distance from the real world and its troubles, Stewart and his correspondents take the world head on and do battle with it. The Daily Show draws nearly a million fewer nightly viewers than Late Night, but it seems to be the more talked-about show, and Stewart has gotten Hollywood’s blessing, with two consecutive Oscar-hosting jobs.

Stewart’s comedy is political, satirical, sceptical. Just beneath the laugh lines you find, simmering, a possibly naïve desire to make the world a better place … or at least the need to leave behind a record showing that some of us weren’t falling for the lines put out by politicians and their hack counterparts in the media. O’Brien’s comedy—apolitical, absurd—suggests the world has fallen into a state that lies beyond satire’s reach. Which may be why his sensibility brings to my mind the 1970s comedy of Martin, Kaufman, and the giddy Gong Show: it rises out of a mood of defeat similar to the one that pervaded the air in that gloriously stupid decade.

Stewart’s more hopeful show— which has its roots in the political comedy of the 50s and 60s— pokes holes in the official story and regularly demonstrates the misguidedness of the war through its careful, albeit comedic, examination of those in charge. Running gags on Late Night, on the other hand, have included the Masturbating Bear, the Horny Manatee, and Raymond, a man with large plastic ears (played by Late Night writer Brian McCann) who hands out tubes of Preparation-H to audience members while singing a little ditty about the discomforts caused by haemorrhoids.

If Stewart is fact based, O’Brien is steeped in a world of cartoonish fiction. The real world rears its head on Late Night only in the mundane-on-purpose conversational segments featuring the host and his bandleader, Max Weinberg— conversations so dull they make you think the real world, with its idle chatter between bored co-workers, is no place you want to be. This running gag, like many Kaufman bits, makes its point by overstaying its welcome, which can be tough to deal with at 1 a.m.

Stephen Colbert, by the way, falls halfway between Conan and Stewart, it seems to me. Like O’Brien, who was once a member of the L.A. improv troupe called the Groundlings, Colbert has a background in theatre. The way he runs from his desk to his interviewing chair, with his arms outstretched, like Julie Andrews traipsing across a meadow in The Sound of Music, shows a performer completely at home in the world of physical comedy. And yet The Colbert Report shares with its big brother, The Daily Show, the mission to expose the blow-dried egos that keep things humming along on their idiotic course. It’s comedy with a purpose. Late Night has no discernible purpose, and that’s partly what I like about it.

Like Leno and Letterman, Stewart paid his dues as a stand-up, and it shows— he’s primarily a talker whose moments of physical comedy come out of the Rodney Dangerfield playbook. In a battle-of-the-late-night-stars segment that ran during the writers' strike, O’Brien had a mock physical fight with Colbert and Stewart. If you check the tape, you’ll see O’Brien and Colbert really going at it, the hams, while Stewart lurks in the background, seemingly wanting no part of such improvish shenanigans.

Right now viewers don’t have to choose between O’Brien and Stewart. But that could change: Stewart’s contract with Comedy Central is up at the end of 2010— coinciding with Letterman’s expiration date with CBS. Stewart seems a natural fit for the Ed Sullivan Theatre and may very well end up going head-to-head with O’Brien. (Then again, by that time, people may no longer be watching TV in real time. Time slots could have little importance.)

I think what Conan attempts has a greater degree of difficulty than what Stewart is after. And it’s way more ambitious than the pot-roast-and-potatoes comedy served up nightly by Leno. But Stewart and Leno, although far apart in how hard they hit, are alike in that they’re both public servants: their nightly jokes are useful. They help people make sense of a crazy world. So it makes sense that the workmanlike Leno gets the ratings and the sharp Stewart gets the buzz. Conan’s rarefied sense of what’s funny could leave him with nothing more than his cult of admirers— a group with a high tolerance for arbitrary silliness— even after he finds himself at the revamped Universal Stage One.

Recent episodes of Late Night suggest Conan may be trying to inch his way toward a more plainly relevant style of comedy as 2009 draws near. His monologue is longer, its jokes more pointed and more obviously topical— sometimes even satirical in that banally partisan Daily Show manner. A recently recurring Late Night comedy piece has various members of the cast saying stupid things, only to have the word “Ass,” in large red letters, stamped onto the screen, covering their faces. This is beneath the imaginative stuff Late Night fans have come to expect. Another tedious piece has an offstage announcer with a heavy-metal voice shrieking the names of recent guests whose names begin with the letter J. Those two recent bits are dangerously like the stinko gags that have polluted Letterman’s show since Rob Burnett took over as executive producer, in 1996. And Late Night’s usually sublime 18-minute opening has lately been interrupted by a round of commercials, which breaks the comic momentum. Is Universal really so hard up for cash that it needs to mess with its Tonight Show host-to-be?

I’m hoping O’Brien won’t change too much as he prepares for the big job. It would be better for him to go down in the Cone Zone than in some other place less beautifully absurd.

Richard and Judy to join UKTV

They made their name as the permanently cheery husband and wife presenting team on ITV's This Morning and in recent years have entertained the teatime audience on Channel 4. But from the autumn, Richard Madeley and Judy Finnegan will move to the relative obscurity of digital television.

The pay-television network UKTV has signed the couple for a "significant sum". But what the pair gain financially, they will lose in prestige. Their Channel 4 show regularly pulls in two million viewers to the 5pm slot. They can expect a much lower audience of fewer than 400,000 on UKTV.

The decision to strike a deal with UKTV, which is half owned by BBC Worldwide – the corporation's commercial arm – and half by Virgin Media Television, suggests that more high-profile broadcasters such as the BBC, ITV and Sky did not express sufficient interest in poaching them when their contract with Channel 4 comes to an end in September.

When the couple announced they were leaving Channel 4 in November last year, after 20 years of presenting live daytime TV, many assumed that Finnigan would fulfil her long-expressed desire to write a novel, while Madeley would pursue his own projects. Leaving Channel 4 also meant escaping the taint of the television phone-in scandal after the premium-rate phone-line watchdog, Icstis, fined the phone operator Eckoh £150,000 over the Richard and Judy "You Say We Pay" competition.

But the pair said the temptation to continue working together had proved too strong. Following the successful rebranding of its G2 channel in October 2007 as Dave – aimed at a young male audience offering repeats of Top Gear and QI – UKTV is expected to relaunch its most popular pay-TV channel UKTV Gold in the summer. Madeley and Finnigan's new show will launch on the rebranded channel in the autumn in a prime time slot.

Their UKTV show will be made by Cactus TV, the independent production company owned by Jonathan Ross's brother Simon and his wife Amanda, which currently makes their Channel 4 show. It will feature the popular Richard and Judy book and wine clubs, which have been great money-spinners for their respective industries.

Finnigan said: "When we announced our decision to leave our current television series after seven years, we were very touched by the number of people – friends, family, guests, viewers and broadcasters – who told us how much they wanted to see us continuing making programmes together." Madeley said UKTV's proposal was "attractive and fun and will give us the kind of flexibility in our personal lives we've been looking for".

The editor of Broadcast magazine, Lisa Campbell, said: "Although their popularity has declined from their heyday, one would have expected them to have retained a high profile on a mainstream channel once their Channel 4 contract was up, particularly owing to the success of their book and wine clubs.

"To move to a UKTV channel which isn't even on Freeview means they'll be playing out to a fraction of the two million-plus audience they've been used to. Peak ratings on UKTV Gold so far this year have been just 380,000. So although a move to a niche channel is great news for the broadcaster, it's quite a shock move by what was once TV's golden couple."

Madeley and Finnigan defected from ITV to Channel 4 in 2001. Their show runs in rotation with The New Paul O'Grady Show, with three months off air and three months on.

Ferguson beats O'Brien for the first time

Recently sworn-in U.S. citizen Craig Ferguson is being embraced by his new countrymen: The late-night comic hit a ratings milestone last week with his first victory over NBC's Conan O'Brien.

The CBS Late Late Show averaged more viewers than O'Brien's Late Night (1.88 million to 1.77 million) for the first week during which they each competed with all-original shows since Ferguson started in January 2005.

It caps a slow and steady climb for Ferguson and raises a red flag for future Tonight show host O'Brien, although NBC says it is still happy with O'Brien's audience. "He's getting looser and looser all the time and for the last few months it's clear that he's having such a good time that you can't resist it as a viewer," said veteran late-night hand Peter Lassally, Ferguson's executive producer.

Ferguson, a Scotsman, passed an American citizenship test and was formally sworn in on Feb. 1. He'll be host of the annual White House correspondents' dinner in Washington later this month, a high-profile gig for a comic.

Although Ferguson had slowly become more competitive with O'Brien in the ratings, the writers strike was crucial to the surge, said producer Michael Naidus. "It was a tough thing but for us it just let us play with the show in a looser way," Naidus said. "We threw out everything and now just have our writers doing a comedy show."

The strike also put a brighter spotlight on late-night programming and Ferguson benefited from the attention, with correspondents from newspapers and magazines writing flattering stories about him, Naidus said.

NBC acknowledged Ferguson's victory but noted O'Brien -- the designated successor to Jay Leno when Leno steps down next year -- still led among viewers aged 18-49, the youthful demographic the network bases its advertising sales on. Among the younger half of that demographic, O'Brien gets more viewers than David Letterman, NBC said.

NBC also noted that CBS got a boost by having all-original shows at the 10 p.m. hour last week, possibly increasing its audience in late-night, while NBC was still in reruns.

Talk-show tango

The usual round-up of the US talk-show circuit:

LATE NIGHT

Late Show with David Letterman (11:35 p.m. ET on CBS and E!)

Monday: Sylvester Stallone, The Teutuls, Mars Volta with Bruce Willis

Tuesday: kid scientists, Natalie Portman, Kenna with N.E.R.D.

Wednesday: Will Ferrell, Michael McDonald

Thursday: Jim Carrey, Paula Abdul

Friday: Chris Elliot and Gerard Mulligan, Steve Martin, hand-shadow artist Raymond Crowe


The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson (12:35 a.m. ET on CBS and E!)

Monday - Friday tba

Tonight Show with Jay Leno (11:35 p.m. ET on NBC)

Monday: Thomas Haden Church (Smart People), Sig and Edgar Hansen (The Deadliest Catch), P.O.D. (When Angels and Serpents Dance)

Tuesday: Dennis Quaid (Smart People), Russell Brand (Forgetting Sarah Marshall)

Wednesday: Ellen Page (Smart People), Donny and Marie Osmond (Miss USA Pageant, Angie Stone (The Art of Love and War)

Thursday: Keanu Reeve (Street Kings), Chelsea Handler, The Redwalls (The Redwalls)

Friday: William Shatner (Boston Legal), Tricia Helfer (Battlestar Galactica), Ryan Bingham (Mescalito)

Late Night with Conan O’Brien (12:35 a.m. ET on NBC)

Monday: Steve Harvey, Hot Chip (Made in the Dark)

Tuesday: David Gregory, tba

Wednesday: tba, Tapes 'N Tapes (Walk It Off)

Thursday: Sarah Jessica Parker (Smart People), Eddie Izzard, They Might Be Giants (Here Come the 123s)

Friday: Oliver Hudson, A.A. Bondy (American Hearts)

Last Call with Carson Daly (1:35 a.m. ET on NBC)

Monday: Zach Cregger and Trevor Moore, tba

Tuesday: Petez Hilton, Sig and Edgar Hansen (Deadliest Catch), Katy Pery

Wednesday: Andrew Zimmerman, tba

Thursday: Leelee Sobieski (88 Minutes), Ben Harper

Friday: Gary Cannon, Kenny & Spenny, The Tender Box

Jimmy Kimmel Live (12:05 a.m. ET on ABC)

Monday: Woody Harrelson (Semi-Pro), Ax Men, Simple Plan

Tuesday: (AIRING AT 12:35 A.M.) Thomas Haden Church (Smart People), latest eliminee of Dancing with the Stars, Phantom Planet

Wednesday: Tom Arnold (The Final Season), Bret Michaels, Aziz Ansari, Rob Huebel and Paul Scheer (Human Giant)

Thursday: Nicolette Sheridan (Desperate Housewives), Chris Paul from New Orleans Hornets, Switches

Friday: Christina Applegate (Samantha Who?), Leona Lewis

Daily Show with Jon Stewart, midnight ET, CTV

Monday: Nathan Lane (November)

Tuesday: Cokie Roberts (The Ladies of Liberty)

Wednesday: Steve Coll (The Bin ladens)

Thursday: Aram Roston (The Man Who Pushed America to War)

The Colbert Report, 12:30 a.m. ET, CTV

Monday - Thursday: tba


DAYTIME

Live with Regis and Kelly, 9 a.m. ET, NBC and CTV

Monday: Brittany Snow (Prom Night), Idols on Live, Green Week

Tuesday: Diane Sawyer (The Last Lecture: A Love Story for Your Life), Leona Lewis (Spirit), staff fitness challenge, David Bach (Go Green, Live Rich), Green Week

Wednesday: Keanu Reeves (Street Kings), staff fitness challenge, Green Week

Thursday: Josh Radnor (How I Met Your Mother), Green Week

Friday: Bryant Gumble (Real Sports), Candice Bergen (Boston Legal), David Boreanaz (Bones), Green Week

The View, 11 a.m. ET, ABC and CTV

Monday: Christina Applegate (Samantha Who?)

Tuesday: Hot Topics

Wednesday: Trisha Yearwood, Eddie Izzard (The Riches)

Thursday: John McCain

Friday: Sarah Jessica Parker (Smart People)

The Martha Stewart Show, 11 a.m. ET, CBC

Monday: Helen Mirren, Jeff Corwin (Animal Planet)

Tuesday: Rosie O'Donnell

Wednesday: Dan Buettner (bluezones.com), National Cherry Blossom Festival

Thursday: tba

Friday: tba

The Ellen DeGeneres Show, 4 p.m. ET, CBS

Monday: Hillary Clinton, Kylie Minogue, ex-Idol Ramiele Malubay

Tuesday: Daughtry and the African Children's Choir, Thomas Haden Church (Smart People)

Wednesday: Jimmy Kimmel, Make Me a Supermodel winner Holly Kiser

Thursday: Jackie Chan, Graham Colton

Friday: Marcia Cross, Leona Lewis

Oprah, 4 p.m. ET, NBC and CTV

Monday: Jamie Lee Curtis posing nude at 50

Tuesday: athletes Chris Evert, Martina Navratilova andcoach Vivian Stringer

Wednesday: A New Earth Phenomenon: An Hour That Can Change Your Life

Thursday: tba

Friday: tba

Talk show tango

This week's US talk-show round-up:

Late Show with David Letterman (11:35 p.m. ET on CBS and E!)

Monday: Helen Mirren (In the Frame: My Life in Words and Pictures), Jose Canseco (Vindicated

Tuesday: John McCain, Cat Power (Jukebox)

Wednesday: George Clooney (Leatherheads), Norah Jones (My Blueberry Nights)

Thursday: Renee Zellweger (Leatherheads), Gayle King (Oprah's Big Give), Paddy Casey (Addicted to Company)

Friday: Ellen Pompeo (Grey's Anatomy), Jay-Z and Mary J. Blige

The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson (12:35 a.m. ET on CBS and E!)

Monday: Aisha Tyler, Richard Branson

Tuesday: Forest Whitaker, Jean-Michel Cousteau, Your Lips Your Lips

Wednesday: Marg Helgenberger, Kylie Minogue

Thursday: Jennifer Love Hewitt, Greg Grenberg, Mrs. Hughes

Friday: Jena Malone, Jonny Lee Miller, Bell X1

Tonight Show with Jay Leno (11:35 p.m. ET on NBC)

Monday: Jodie Foster (Nim's Island), Cedric the Entertainer (Street Kings), Lili Haydn (Place Between Places

Tuesday: David Beckham, Sherri Shepherd (The View), The B-52s (Funplex)

Wednesday: Steve Carell (The Office), Kathie Lee Gifford, Ani DiFranco (Canon)

Thursday: Hillary Clinton, Patton Oswalt (Sex and Death 101), Ferras (Aliens & Rainbows)

Friday: David Spade (Rules of Engagement), 102-year-old Nora Harwick, Ben Lee (Ripe)

Late Night with Conan O’Brien (12:35 a.m. ET on NBC)

Monday: Bob Costas, Marc Maron, Moby (Last Night)

Tuesday: Helen Mirren (In the Frame: My Life in Words and Pictures), yodeler Wylie Gustafson, Carbon/Silicon (The Last Pond)

Wednesday: TBA, The Bravery (The Sun and the Moon Compete)

Thursday: Olympian Bode Miller, Cobra Starship (Viva la Cobra!)

Friday: Christina Applegate, Lewis Black

Last Call with Carson Daly (1:35 a.m. ET on NBC)

Monday: Andrew "Dice" Clay, Shooter Jennings

Tuesday: Kerry Kenney, Hellogoodbye

Wednesday: Wayne Brady, Brett Dennen

Thursday: Harland Williams, Sheryle Crow

Friday: Eddie Izzard, Rick Ross

Jimmy Kimmel Live (12:05 a.m. ET on ABC)

Monday: Naomi Watts (Funny Games), tennis player James Blake, Cobra Starship

Tuesday: Ryan Phillippe (Stop-Loss), Dancing with the Stars eliminee, Carole King

Wednesday: Randy Jackson (American Idol, America's Best Dance Crew), Julie Bowen, Back Door Slam

Thursday: 90-minute 1,000 Episode at the special time of 11:35 p.m. ET

Friday: Artie Lang, Paramore

Daily Show with Jon Stewart, midnight ET, CTV

Monday: Senator Chuck Hagel

Tuesday: William Safire

Wednesday: George Clooney (Leatherheads)

Thursday: TBA

The Colbert Report, 12:30 a.m. ET, CTV

Monday: TBA

Tuesday: TBA

Wednesday: TBA

Thursday: TBA

DAYTIME

Live with Regis and Kelly, 9 a.m. ET, NBC and CTV

Monday: Randy Jackson (American Idol, America's Best Dance Crew)

Tuesday: Julie Andrews (Home: A Memoir of My EArly Years), Lifehouse, stafff fitness challenge

Wednesday: Jodie Foster (Nim's Island), Avril Lavigne, staff fitness challenge

Thursday: George Clooney (Leatherheads), Mario, staff fitness challenge

Friday: Andreson Cooper guest hosts, Renee Zellweger (Leatherheads), staff fitness challenge

The View, 11 a.m. ET, ABC and CTV

Monday: Hot Topics

Tuesday: Woody Harrelson, Sara Bareilles (R)

Wednesday: David Schwimmer and Thandie Newton (Run Fatboy Run), Natasha Bedingfield (R)

Thursday: Snoop Dogg, John Stossel (R)

Friday: special edition Diet and Exercise

The Martha Stewart Show, 11 a.m. ET, CBC

Monday: Cupcake Week

Tuesday: Seth Meyers (SNL) makes rhubarb fool

Wednesday: more Cupcake Week fun

Thursday: TBA

Friday: TBA

The Ellen DeGeneres Show, 4 p.m. ET, CBS

Monday: Jeff Foxworthy, Flo Rida, Chester Pitts, Ephraim Salaam

Tuesday: Paula Deen, Jonas Brothers

Wednesday: Jenny McCarthy, Kellie Pickler, ex-American Idoler Chikezie

Thursday: Kylie Minogue, Abigail Breslin (Nim's Island)

Friday: Forest Whitaker, the B-52s (Funplex)

Oprah, 4 p.m. ET, NBC and CTV

Monday: Suze Orman with emergency financial advice for America

Tuesday: Dr. Oz on night terrors

Wednesday: The families behind the mistaken identity case

Thursday: The pregnang man! Yes, you read that right. And there's an ultrasound to prove it.

Friday: Lisa Ling investigates puppy mills