Say what you will, NBC has done a great job of suddenly making late night television fascinating.

• This piece by Alan Sepinwall is a great overview of the whole situation and Conan’s standpoint as the wronged party in his contract with NBC.
• The Hollywood Reporter’s legal blog takes a more direct look at the specific legal implications of changing The Tonight Show‘s airtime. Apparently unlike Letterman and Leno, Conan’s deal doesn’t include careful language about the time his show will appear, which gives NBC more wiggle room than it would have had with Leno. While the blog post doesn’t comment on the argument that a Tonight show which doesn’t air until tomorrow is an essentially different show, it suggests that the timeslot argument has more to do with the show’s position relative to nightly local news.
• NBC has released its post-Jay Leno Show, post-Olympics primetime schedule. It looks like it will rely heavily on the Law and Order franchise, whip up a few reality shows, and then plug the gaps with repeats, the Jerry Seinfeld project The Marriage Ref, and the much-delayed, Maura Tierney Lauren Graham show Parenthood. Best news of the schedule is a solid return date for Friday Night Lights.

Couldn’t care less about this debacle? Please to enjoy this musical clip from the 100th episode of How I Met Your Mother. (It’s mirrored, but you get the idea).