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Sould Leslie Moonves Be Fired?

Should Moron Moonves Be Canned?

  • Yes

    Votes: 3 9.4%

  • YES!!!

    Votes: 29 90.6%
  • Total voters
    32
TedShatner10

TedShatner10

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It seems like Les Moonves has done everything in his power to alienate all the viewers and listeners of the CBS network in recent years and since 2005 he has been little else but a washout and cancelled many good shows, running CBS Radio into the ground over the Howard Stern debacle, while overpaying himself $67.6 million when CBS shares have declined 40% (good money that could've been spent on his shows).

Moonlight and Shark seemed to have been canned mostly through impatience and faulty scheduling, rather than genuine underperformance (but you have to be some moron to cancel a show more popular than Ugly Betty). The CSI franchise, CSI derivatives, and a few duff reality shows seems to be all that's going for CBS, with no plan of replacing them if they start to fail (although I'm a fan of CSI and NCIS). He has ruined CBS News too through his pandering and nepotism.
 
Leslie Moonves has made many mistakes and for the first time in a while CBS did not finish a season number 1 in total viewers for 2007/2008.
 
If it means that they can Julie Chen and bar her from appearing on television again, I'm of the belief that he should be fired.
 
I still don't understand it, not cancelling Shark and Moonlight then moving them to sensible timeslots was a no-brainer, and while 11 millions viewers for Shark and 8 million viewers for Moonlight are not spectacular ratings on their own, they were still solid viewing figures and Les Moonves pissed off nearly twenty million consumers. He had no insight about the effects of the Writer's Strike causing a lot of short term damage and is making things worse; he's employing a very bad strategy for CBS (with ratings slipping across the board. CBS is no longer in top position and the CSI phenomena won't last forever).
 
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After CBS dumped Jericho, there is nothing worth watching on the entire network!!! Even dumbshit CW has one show worth watching. So yeah, fire his incompetent ass.
 
I don't understand how shows can be hits their first season, moved to another (lesser) timeslot for the next and all of a sudden they're no good anymore.
 
I'm actually watching more shows on CBS now than I have been in a long while. Though I've noticed they're all comedies and reality shows...the network is just awful with dramas. I don't know if he should be fired.
 
These days, the C in CBS stands for Crime.

NCIS, Criminal Minds, The Mentalist, CSI, CSI: Miami, CSI: NY, Cold Case, Without a Trace, Numbers, Eleventh Hour. Even when they had a show about vampires, the lead was a PI so he did a lot of crime solving. Even the Ghost Whisperer investigates a lot of crimes.
 
Aragorn said:
I don't understand how shows can be hits their first season, moved to another (lesser) timeslot for the next and all of a sudden they're no good anymore.
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How they handled Shark in Season Two then cutting it short suddenly was sheer incompetence, especially when it was beating ER while it was also beating L&O and Ugly Betty even in it's more awkward later timeslots (but it could've been troubled by other behind scenes problems other than the Writer's Strike and Moonves cannot be entirely to blame, even though it was directly his fault for damaging the viewer figures and not Shark itself, which was doing well in it's original timeslot).

Moonlight sounds unfortunate but again he never gave it a proper chance and seemed to have actively sabotaged it by giving it the shit end of the schedule from the onset. Even then it attracted a solid viewing fanbase and critical acclaim, but instead of letting it find it's feet and wait for it to gain more viewers, he short-sightedly pulled the plug.

Leslie Moonves may have done wonders for CBS in his early days, but in more recent years he seems to be becoming more arrogant and out of touch with reality, making more obvious blunders.
 
I've wanted him to be fired for three and a half years now since the cancellation of Enterprise.
 
I don't think I've watched a television series on CBS in five or six years. Or, maybe, ever. Make of that what you will. It's not like I watch much TV these days, though.
 
I haven't watched CBS (except football) since the unfortunate demise of Jericho. Though, that has a lot to do with the fact that there is only two shows I even pretend to be interested in, and they are both at times when I am busy. And one of those shows will probably lose my viewership if I had time anyways because it seems like the entire cast has disappeared since I last watched (CSI).
 
Since The Unit is now occupying the spot that Shark was executed in, is that show toast, too?
 
The Unit has more of chance because of the lack of the Writer's Strike and perhaps it is better behind the scenes. But CBS seems to be treating another solid show like junk by messing it about like they did with Shark.

What was the dispute between Leslie Moonves and Howard Stern about?
 
I honestly don't watch a single show on CBS. Overall, the network is still doing well, but their over-reliance on the CSI franchise and other crime/cop shows will eventually come back to bite them in the ass. I will say this: Les Moonves is responsible for Dawn Ostroff who runs The CW. Clearly there's something wrong with this guy.
 
Well there does seem to be something wrong with him and the enforced samness of the CBS shows from CSI and Shark alludes to him (fifty something male as a main character), and it shows what a megalomaniac he is. And canning an 'in' show like Shark for no reason demonstrates that he is losing the plot.
 
Isn't he the guy who cancelled Star Trek? For that alone, he should be fired.

And have to pay a fine.
 
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