"They were able to, a few years back, do their shows a bit more economically. "They're doing well they're profitable," he said. Moonves expressed no concern about the future of CBS' daytime soaps The Young and the Restless and The Bold and the Beautiful. The model has never been dead it's just evolving." Everything is not counted yet, though Nielsen is trying to get there. "When you look at the totality of it, you say, 'Numbers can be as big, they're just coming from different places. "That is drastically different than it ever was before," Moonves said. He added that the 13.7 million viewers the show received for its premiere grew to more than 20 million when factoring in DVR, on-demand and streaming views. Moonves pointed to the success of Under the Dome's huge summer premiere to once again champion the big-tent reach of network TV. We'll see if that was good in a few months."īroadcast television is not dead. "It became pretty self-evident that would be a good move. " Hawaii Five-0 skews a little bit older, so we figured with Blue Bloods doing extremely well, Friday night has become more of a total viewers than a demo night," Moonves said.
Hostages will take the Mondays-at-10 timeslot this fall, bumping Five-0 to Fridays. Hawaii Five-0 says aloha to its Monday timeslot. Why can't they be under the dome a long time? It's television!" "We put it on to have multiple seasons of it. "We didn't put it on just to have 15 episodes on," Moonves said. At the bottom of it all is still quality television." But Moonves doesn't view the show, or the recently renewed Under the Dome, as a limited series. Every model that we're doing is somewhat different than what we were doing before. we realized we needed a new model to do it," he said. "When the Bruckheimer people brought us that project. Moonves acknowledged the network's approach to the new show is a departure, but said it is one necessitated by the changing marketplace. Apparently, one of those better choices was Hostages, a serialized political assassination thriller that CBS ordered for only 15 episodes. And we felt that we had better choices than that pilot."Įnter Hostages.
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What happened to Shawn Ryan's Beverly Hills Cop pilot? Although many TV insiders prognosticated that the TV reboot of the beloved film franchise was a lock during pilot season, Moonves said, "We do a lot of pilots and the best get on the air. Sometimes, does that lead to controversy? Absolutely."
"Obviously, you don't want wallflowers on reality shows," he said. I think it, unfortunately, is reflective of how certain people feel in America." Moonves, who is married to Big Brother host Julie Chen, also admitted that he is still involved in the casting process. I find some of the behavior absolutely appalling personally. "Clearly that's what's happening this year. was established as a social experiment," he said. Some other highlights from Moonves' executive session:īig Brother's racial controversy is "appalling": Moonves said that he believed that CBS handled the hot-button issue properly, but slammed the offending contestants' behavior. We feel like we exhausted every opportunity, and she just decided she didn't want to do the show." We don't like losing anybody, but we did everything humanly possible. " NCIS was the highest-rated show on television last year. "It was purely her decision," Moonves continued.
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