weekly," and lauren sanchez returns, correspondent for "extra." here is how conan o'brien made the announcement today. he said, "the good news, i'll be doing a show on tbs starting in november. the bad news: i'll be playing rudy on the all new cosby show." by the way, bill cosby will be here tomorrow night. okay, lauren, what happened here? >> well, you know what? it's a good day to be conan o'brien, obviously. and "extra's" confirmed that conan inked a deal with tbs that will pay him excess of $10 million a year, and by the way, he owns the show, which means he's going to make millions of dollars on the back-end as well. now there's three really interesting things about this deal, one it was fast and furious which you know, larry, never happens in hollywood. >> larry: never the same agent, you have to ask them about it. >> two, it was very private which also never happens in hollywood. three, it never would have happened without the blessing of george lopez. "extra" learned that lopez called conan personally and said do this deal. i'm okay with it. because as you just said, he