It would seem that someone at NBC has a twisted sense of humor.

Conan O’Brien has a production company named Conaco, and the company is currently working on a new series named Justice about a supreme court justice that retires to start his own law firm.  Not much else is known at this time, but it sounds like your typical law drama, and you know you can never have too many of those on the air.

As spring is approaching, the television networks are prepping for the 2010 – 2011 television season.  This is when all of the new shows are ordered to film pilots, or they even get series orders to go into full production.  Well, congratulations to Conan O’Brien’s Conaco as Justice’s pilot got picked up!

… by NBC.

What …
The …
Heck?!?

Is this someone at NBC’s idea of a joke?  As I am sure anyone who was born earlier than last Friday knows, Mr. O’Brien had a very public fight with the network, and he has now left the network as host of The Tonight Show.   Some speculated that this was part of his exit deal, but Nikki Finke has confirmed the production company is as surprised as anyone else by this turn of events.

The sad thing is, just because a pilot has been picked up, that doesn’t mean it will go to series.  There is every chance, and this is pure speculation on my part, that NBC picked it up merely to block it from going elsewhere.  There is a chance, albeit slim, that NBC truly did this to just mess with him.  Again, I stress this is slim, but you never know.

Congratulations?