Tom Green is making the jump to old media, taking his late-night Internet talk show to TV, with the program available in January. "Tom Green Live" is a one-hour show that airs online at 11 p.m.
on weeknights, and the idea is to first get it onto a handful of stations.
Debmar-Mercury, which is handling the rollout, did that with "Tyler Perry's House of Pain," which debuted on
just 10 outlets. "That way we can let the show speak for itself instead of trying to sell a pilot first," says co-president Ira Bernstein. Green does the show out of his Los Angeles home and it will
continue to go live over his Web site. A recent episode pulled only 20,000 viewers live, but he says about 650,000 clips from the show were seen via YouTube, MySpace and other sites. The show
currently airs for an uninterrupted hour, but that is about to change.
"It will be nice to have commercial breaks," says Green. "It means I can have multiple guests and have a nice
transition in between, do fun bumps to the break and things like that."
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