It seems that NBC would just like to forget Conan O’Brien ever worked for them, and the network has set about scrubbing all remnants of his tenure with the company from its halls.

It’s been two weeks since Conan O’Brien signed off from The Tonight Show, and NBC would like to forget he was ever there apparently.  Pictures circulated earlier this week of Conan’s image being replace by Jay Leno’s all over Rockefeller Center in New York, the corporate headquarters of the network.

Aaron Bleyaert, a former researcher and blogger for The Tonight Show posted pictures of the offices on move out day this past Friday, as well as the state of the set.  Neither picture set is very uplifting to say the least.

What is good news, though, is that there is some news that Mr. O’Brien and Fox are in talks to do something together, but not quite in the format anyone anticipated.  While Fox has the right to take over the post-local news time slot on its affiliate stations, those slots are currently filled with lucrative syndicated programs.  The affiliates would be less than pleased to see those spots disappear, so what could Fox do to get Mr. O’Brien in to their network, but not upset the affiliates?

Fox also owns the FX cable network, and the current rumor goes that Mr. O’Brien would have a show on the cable net four nights a week, and then have one episode a week on Fox on the weekends.  The problem is that comedienne Wanda Sykes already has a weekend show on Fox, and there is no word how this would be juggled as of yet.  The talks have thus far only been preliminary, but are expected to pick up speed over the next six weeks so the show could be prepped for a fall debut.  (Mr. O’Briens agreement with NBC states he must not host a new show before Sept. 1st of this year)

In other news, it seems that 50 Tonight Show staffers were somehow left with no severance pay in the show cancellation due to them just being stage hands.  According to TMZ, Mr. O’Brien has paid all 50 of the employees six weeks pay out of his own pocket to help them out until they find jobs.  This is not unheard of for the late night show host as he helped staffers out of his own pocket during the Writer’s Guild of America strike of 2007.