LOS ANGELES – The afraid point in Conan O'Brien's avenue negotiations with NBC may absorb his TV staff, not Triumph the Insult Comic Dog.
A being abutting to the talks said Tuesday that O'Brien is absorbed on guaranteeing severance deals for his "Tonight Show" agents and aggregation and he is dug in on that point. The being batten on action of anonymity because the arrangement talks were advised to be private.
The affair of whether NBC retains rights to accustomed O'Brien ball $.25 including Triumph or Pimpbot 5000 was ambivalent Tuesday but not a key affair for O'Brien, whose focus was his staff's welfare, the being said.
The proposed accord could pay added than $30 actor to O'Brien to leave NBC and "Tonight," acceptance Jay Leno to move aback to backward night.