Leslie Moonves: “I Hope ‘Men’ Is Back”

COMMENTS (19)

• I’d hate to hear or see what Sheen would have to do or say for Moonves to cancel the show…

  Comment by JohnDoe — Tuesday March 1, 2011 @ 12:49pm PST  Reply to this post

• The show is worth billions. Charlie can stick gerbils and chimpanzees up his bunghole and things are still a-ok from where Moonves is sitting.

  Comment by advil — Tuesday March 1, 2011 @ 1:21pm PST  Reply to this post

  • LOL

    Comment by JohnDoe — Tuesday March 1, 2011 @ 2:02pm PST  Reply to this post

• Les’ greedy self-interest + Chuck’s vile narcissism + Charlie’s pathetic drug-addled mind = even less 2 1/2 real men

  Comment by David O. — Tuesday March 1, 2011 @ 1:27pm PST  Reply to this post

• Suddenly, they decide to start randomly splicing together old shows to create strange mash-up episodes, and not a single person notices the slightly more jumbled plot

  Comment by Chris — Tuesday March 1, 2011 @ 1:33pm PST  Reply to this post

• Leslie is the biggest bullshitter out there. Greedy backstabber.

  Comment by Stern — Tuesday March 1, 2011 @ 2:43pm PST  Reply to this post

• Amazing that Les would be so cavalier about Sheen’s problems and how they impact the company that he runs. CBS and Warner Bros. have an no sense of corporate responsibility at all. They are fucking tone deaf. Sheen is an idiot who should be punished (that means cancelled) for his boorish and often illegal behavior. That Moonves finds what Sheen has been doing of the level that merits a “funny” line and then invites him back for next year is one of the most astonishing comments I can remember a CEO making. Come on guys, for once can’t someone representing a major studio/network do the right thing and set an example that bad behavior will not be rewarded!

  Comment by kasaja — Tuesday March 1, 2011 @ 2:52pm PST  Reply to this post

• The important fact here is that does not sound like a man who has been pushed to the edge of cancelling season 9 by Charlie’s media offensive the last four days. If anything, that sounds like a guy who recognizes he’s been put on the defensive by Charlie “peeing clean” and working the media.

  Doesn’t guarantee a result, of course –he could just be deciding to hunker down and see if Charlie blows himself up again.

  But as of now, those that predicted Charlie going on the offensive would be the final nail in the coffin of the show are not looking too good at the moment.

  Comment by geo — Tuesday March 1, 2011 @ 3:18pm PST  Reply to this post

• Perhaps the producers could hire another actor to replace Charlie Sheen in the same role, but I don’t think it will happen.

  If I had to give odds, I’d say there’s a less than a one-in-20 chance that “Two And A Half Men” will be back next season.

  The show is toast.

  And we may get word of cancellation very, very soon.

  Comment by Joseph — Tuesday March 1, 2011 @ 3:22pm PST  Reply to this post

• les is right !! why on earth kill a project thats bringing in tons of $$$….someone ..perhaps Les should sit down with Charlie & Chuck and make an executive decision to bring out the best in each…not the worst….and bite the $$$ bullet and loosen the purse strings

  Comment by paullie — Tuesday March 1, 2011 @ 3:39pm PST  Reply to this post

• Les damn well hopes 2.5 Men is back!
  Handled right, Charlie’s shenanigans may become a PR windfall for CBS and 2.5 Men.
  Ruffled egos aside, Charlie’s Performer Q and 2.5 Men’s TV Show Q have increased significantly. He’s more visible as is his show.
  Free publicity! What’s not to like? (as long as you’re not a PR pro).

  As Lincoln famously said, ” the world will little note nor long remember…” The viewing public has short memory, and as time goes by, they forget bad shit, while retaining only a hazy, golden memory of the good shit.
  If things quiet down, in a few weeks, the 18 million 2.5 Men viewers will be eager for new shows. Add to that a few million new viewers who will tune in out of curiosity just to see what all the shit was about, and September’s 2011 new season of the show will be #1 again.

  Charlie’s shit with Lorre, Lorre’s shit with Charlie, talks of lawsuits, pay demands, namecalling…a month from now, fans of the show will want Charlie back.

  I’ve never watched more than an hour of the show in total, but the millions who do watch 2.5 Men are hooked on Charlie like a reality show. 2.5 Men gives them a funny, on-going look at how Charlie probably lives in real life, less of course the hookers & drugs.

  18 million people like Charlie and laugh at his escapades. All they want is a half-hour on CBS that distracts them and makes them smile.

  If Charlie self destructs or CBS pulls the plug, Charlie will lose 50 million and CBS-Les Moonves-stand to lose next season’s ad and syndication revenues of 300 million. Bring back the show with a new “Charlie”, and though ratings may fall by 30%, still it’ll pull 12 million and win the time slot.

  Les hopes that ” ‘Men is back’ ” so he can be “back in the black”.

  Comment by PR jack — Tuesday March 1, 2011 @ 3:40pm PST  Reply to this post

• I have to think they want Sheen back because if not, last night’s show was the perfect opportunity to replace him. With only some minor editing/reshooting on the last scene they could have positioned themselves. Charlie was in Las Vegas getting some work done on his eyes. Several times it was mentioned that the surgeon was a bit of a hack. Utilize the old soap opera technique and have him come back with a fully bandaged face and cliff hang for a while to see if they can work things out or if they can’t, the wrapping comes off and magically Sheen has been transformed into John Stamos. I think they really missed an opportunity here. Not the most creative but I’ve certainly seen worse and when millions are at stake who really cares.

  Comment by Bob — Tuesday March 1, 2011 @ 3:46pm PST  Reply to this post

• Les, greedy? Maybe. He might also be ruthless, competitive, ego-centric and Machiavelllian. But then he’s also the king of the networks, got CBS out of the convalescent homes and occupies a post most in this town would sell their souls to the devil to have.

  I don’t know him personally, but I sure as hell respect the guy.

  Comment by Meh — Tuesday March 1, 2011 @ 3:49pm PST  Reply to this post

• Series finale: After contracting an STD that affects his mind as well as his genitalia, Charlie Harper snaps and kills Alan, Jake, Berta and his mother for refusing to do a five-way with him. He than demands a trillion dollars from McDonald’s to write a jingle for them incorporating their deaths into it. McDonald’s corporate CEO, Simply Moonme, thinks it’s a brilliant idea but before he can say yes the STD causes Charlie to collapse and melt into a pile of white powder. Hazmat teams are called and he is hosed off the floor and out the sliding glass door into the fake ocean background.

  Comment by Yekimi — Tuesday March 1, 2011 @ 3:51pm PST  Reply to this post

• Les Moonves is as sick a man as Charlie. Where was Les when Charlie was beating the crap out of women? Oh, I guess that is OK as long as the money is rolling in.

  Comment by callie — Tuesday March 1, 2011 @ 5:07pm PST  Reply to this post

• Les Moonves, Nina Tassler and Peter Roth were fine while Charlie beat up the ladies. Got forbid he something negative about Chuck Lorre.

  Comment by Dianne — Tuesday March 1, 2011 @ 9:55pm PST  Reply to this post

• Moonves said “I hope it’s back,” not “I hope he’s back.”

  Comment by Sorry — Wednesday March 2, 2011 @ 7:50am PST  Reply to this post

• Are you drunk?

  Comment by G — Wednesday March 2, 2011 @ 8:54am PST  Reply to this post

• If you guys knew half as much as you think you know, you’d only look like idiots.

  Comment by chinanski — Wednesday March 2, 2011 @ 3:33pm PST  Reply to this post