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Canadians to see Conan at 1 a.m. this fall

Team Coco might be brewing a few pots of joe this fall.CTV announced Thursday that it will air Conan O’Brien’s new show at 1 a.m. — a full two hours after Americans will be able to watch it on TBS.

TORONTO — Team Coco might be brewing a few pots of joe this fall.

CTV announced Thursday that it will air Conan O’Brien’s new show at 1 a.m. — a full two hours after Americans will be able to watch it on TBS.

The late-night program, set to debut in November, will air earlier on the Comedy Network but a CTV spokesman said that time slot has yet to be determined. Susanne Boyce, CTV’s president of creative, content and channels isn’t worried that viewers will have to wait until the wee hours to see O’Brien.

“TBS doesn’t run in Canada, so we’ll have the exclusive time period,” she said.

Currently, CTV airs The Daily Show with Jon Stewart and The Colbert Report between midnight and 1 a.m., Boyce said both shows have performed well.

O’Brien’s refusal to move his Tonight show back to a post-midnight time slot was the sticking point that set off NBC’s late-night debacle earlier this year and his eventual move to cable. But he was upbeat in a video message quoted by CTV.

“I’m absolutely thrilled to be coming to you on CTV,” O’Brien said. “When I took my show here to Toronto several years ago, you treated me like a rock star and I never forgot it. I love your country. I love your people. And I really love your comedy.”

CTV also revealed the rest of its fall schedule, including the Dick Wolf procedural Law & Order: Los Angeles, the Jim Belushi legal drama The Defenders,” and $! My Dad Says, a comedy starring William Shatner based on the popular Twitter feed.

Also in the lineup is the Michael Chiklis drama No Ordinary Family, about a family with superpowers, and Blue Bloods, a show about Irish cops which stars Tom Selleck.

Global came under fire earlier this week for having just one original Canadian show on its fall schedule. CTV, meanwhile, boasted that it will feature seven homegrown programs in its lineup including Flashpoint, The Bridge, The Listener, and Hiccups. The network will also premiere the new series The Marilyn Denis Show, which will air daily at 10 a.m.

The future of the reality modelling competition Canada’s Next Top Model, however, appears murky.

A spokesperson for CTV said that the show had not been confirmed for a new season, and Boyce said she didn’t know if the show would ever come back.

Shows returning to CTV include Grey’s Anatomy, The Amazing Race, The Mentalist, Dancing with the Stars, Desperate Housewives, American Idol, and The Big Bang Theory a breakout success that will move to a Thursday night time slot (simulcast with CBS).