Les Moonves Loves All His Children But…

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• “The Good Wife” are you kidding me? I couldn’t even get through it. Wee wee wee wee boring. I was fast asleep like ten minutes in, I even started it over and still hated it. But maybe the geriatrics will like it.

  Best pilot I’ve seen across all the networks “Off Duty” still can’t figure out how it didn’t get picked up. Frigging fantastic.

  Comment by the kid — Wednesday June 17, 2009 @ 2:01pm PDT  Reply to this post

• Note to Les: Julianna Margulies is not a TV star anymore, not even for CBS’s geriatric audience. Not to mention that Fox already did this show as ‘Canterbury’s Law.’ It lasted all of six episodes.

  Comment by Bore us Les — Wednesday June 17, 2009 @ 2:20pm PDT  Reply to this post

• Sweet. My friend got on NCIS. He’s one of the good guys so I hope it works out.

  Comment by shaun — Wednesday June 17, 2009 @ 2:21pm PDT  Reply to this post

• Maybe Les has the hots for Julianna like Ligouri did. A pretty face will make a lot of men pick up below average shows. Case in point: Emily’s Reasons Why Not.

  Comment by Les is More — Wednesday June 17, 2009 @ 3:05pm PDT  Reply to this post

• Modern Family? Isn’t that a ripoff of All in the Family?
  Ed O’Neill is Archie. Instead of a hippie kid (Archie). He has a gay kid.

  BTW it had that cheap “video look”, just like “All in the Family”.

  Comment by Joe Brown — Wednesday June 17, 2009 @ 3:35pm PDT  Reply to this post

• HANK was 22 of the most excruciating minutes of my life. I wish to god I could get those wasted minutes back. Possibly the worst comedy pilot I’ve ever seen.

  Of course, that means it will be a hit, no?

  Comment by joe — Wednesday June 17, 2009 @ 3:59pm PDT  Reply to this post

• joebrown: you’re dumb. modern family is great.

  Comment by robert — Wednesday June 17, 2009 @ 6:08pm PDT  Reply to this post

• Hank is good. Les is dumb.

  Comment by Dave — Wednesday June 17, 2009 @ 6:16pm PDT  Reply to this post

• Les has an agenda, let me break it down. He is pisssed as hell that four upper level writers from 2 CBS shows went to “Hank.” So yes, Les might be routing for it to fail for his own agenda, but certainly not because it’s the worst. Don’t believe everything you read.

  Comment by InDa'Know — Wednesday June 17, 2009 @ 10:16pm PDT  Reply to this post

• It’s amazing he can tell one CBS show from another. Has their similarities been the key to their success? Where’s How I Met Your Father, Guy and a Half and LetterZ?

  Comment by Kathy Lee — Wednesday June 17, 2009 @ 11:45pm PDT  Reply to this post

• I got to say Les is right on the money. This was by far the most dreadful pilot seasons I have seen in many years. Even worse then last year which had the strike to deal with. Every year there are at least 4 or 5 really good pilots I am excited to watch in the fall. This year there is at most 2 or 3 that I will watch a 2nd episode of. The bad ones this are excruciatingly bad.

  I haven’t seen the NCIS spinoff(never seen an ep of the original either) but The Good Wife was definitely the best of CBS’ new pilots. Will I watch the show…no, I am not over 40…but I definitely think it will be a hit. Felt the same way about The Mentalist last year, and only saw the pilot of that show too. Worst CBS pilot by far was 3 Rivers which had to be the most boring, uninteresting pilot I have seen in years. Felt like a really bad episode of Grey’s. Les was also right about HANK, pretty much unwatchable.

  You might think I sound like a Les Moonves lover, however I am pretty pissed off at the guy. I hear he is responsible for Showtime not picking up by far the best pilot I have seen all year, Tim Robins’ “Possible Side Effects” It was all kinds of awesome. If I was the president of AMC or FX I would definitely try to pick it up

  Modern Family is by far the top network pilot, I also really liked the CW midseason show Parental Discretion Advised, really not too much else to recommend. Still looking forward to Flash Forward which ABC is doing a good job of keeping on the downlow

  Comment by Jay — Thursday June 18, 2009 @ 1:15am PDT  Reply to this post

• Well, all I can say is that the episodes featuring the new NCIS crew were the most boring of the season. I hope like hell they do some retooling to up the interest factor because it was painful to watch. Zero chemistry and I almost cheered when Chris O’Donnell’s character was gunned down at the end.

  As for the Good Wife, I’ll give it a shot, but agree that Julianna Margulies isn’t the draw that Les and company seem to think she is. If that were so, Canterbury Law would still be on air.

  The Jenna Elfman comedy looks uninteresting too. Seriously, if the promo doesn’t give one laugh, what is a full 22 minutes going to give us?

  As for Three Rivers, I hear some retooling is happening to make it more character driven, so I’ll give it a shot. A cut and dry med drama would come off as just a documentary, so upping the interest in the personal lives of the med staff can help tremendously. I’m just hoping they don’t turn it into another Grey’s. Isn’t one silly, soapy med show enough?

  Comment by Rebecca — Thursday June 18, 2009 @ 12:52pm PDT  Reply to this post

• Well…Well so now Les is in the “know” on these things. Yes, he still has a job, but he sure is no TV guru to me. The man could not even get his priorites right when he cancelled Moonlight last year. Yeah, I’m going there…Yes Les, nice,safe, predictable, (boring) shows are CBS flagships. I really have no interest in network tv and thank God for cable. Actually none of the pilots sounds interesting this year. I am a fan of A O’Loughlin, but even 3R is not rocking my boat either. Just some crumbs to throw at Moonlight fans…guess what not going to work if the show is lousy. Anyway, at least “Chuck” is coming back. Have something to look forward to besides cable tv.

  Comment by GiGi — Thursday June 18, 2009 @ 3:11pm PDT  Reply to this post

• He didnt pick up FishTank wtf? heard it was great

  Comment by brochow — Thursday June 18, 2009 @ 5:30pm PDT  Reply to this post

• Brutal…brutal…if CBS loves Alex O’Loughlin as much as I think they do why can’t they give him a sure thing? The man is so enthusiastic and dedicated, he deserves to be star material. Hope the retooling works cause I want to see this man on my screen. That Elfman thing looks really awful but then again I’m still baffeled as to why Ghost Whisperer is coming back. That one has really jumped the shark big time! As for NCIS LA, I didn’t like the lady boss much, but will probably watch anyway. No interest in Good Wife, but that’s just personal preferance. And like GIGI said, yeah…yeah.. going there. Loved Moonlight, still do and always will.

  Comment by aolver — Thursday June 18, 2009 @ 7:00pm PDT  Reply to this post