O'Brien won't do Tonight Show after Leno

Conan O’Brien has refused to play along with NBC’s plan to move The Tonight Show and return Jay Leno to late-night, abruptly derailing the network’s effort to resolve its scheduling mess. O’Brien said in a statement Tuesday that shifting Tonight will “seriously damage what I consider to be the greatest franchise in the history of broadcasting,” and he expressed disappointment that NBC had given him less than a year to establish himself as host at 11:35 p.m. EST.