Two-and-a-half years ago, after CBS realized that it wasn’t really interested in the whole superhero game, it dumped Supergirl and moved the show over to The CW (where it should’ve been all along). Now, with comic book adaptations and superhero shows still as strong as ever, CBS has decided to give capes another shot. …
Because nothing says “Timely political content!” like a cameo from one of the most important political figures of 2016—recycling a joke that was getting long in the tooth back in 1998—CBS’s Murphy Brown reboot brought out the big guns tonight, drafting Hillary Clinton for a surprise appearance on its very first…
The Twilight Zone wouldn’t be nearly as iconic as it is now without Rod Sterling guiding viewers in and setting up the mysterious sights and sounds of each story with his ominous introductions, but since Sterling has been dead for over 40 years, CBS’ new Twilight Zone reboot has had to face the impossible task of…
At the beginning of this month, CBS head Leslie Moonves stepped down from the network after a dozen women came forward with allegations that he sexual harassed or assaulted them. Shortly after that, Julie Chen—who is married to Moonves and weirdly used his name on a recent Big Brother—took a break from her gig…
Yesterday, CBS head Leslie Moonves was booted from the network (technically he “resigned”), following allegations from a dozen women that he sexually harassed or assaulted them. Previous reports suggest that Moonves would possibly a receive an absurdly huge payout from CBS as severance (around $100 million), but all…
[Warning: This article contains descriptions of sexual assault.]
Just 98 years after the Nineteenth Amendment was ratified and four years since the debut of Madam Secretary, CBS has voted “yes” on Proposition “Female Mayor Show.” Or, as the show is currently titled, Ms. Mayor (that name’s not much better, we know).
Some kind of writing has been on the wall for CBS head honcho Les Moonves for a few months now, ever since The New Yorker published a Ronan Farrow-penned exploration of accounts from six different women, all accusing the network head of sexual harassment. Still, everybody terrified about what might happen to this…
Last month, a New Yorker exposé sent CBS stock tumbling after revealing a pattern of sexual misconduct from president Les Moonves that bled into the network’s lax company culture. CBS is currently undertaking its own independent investigation, but now it will need to contend with a shareholder class action lawsuit…
As Johnny Galecki gravely foreshadowed at the very beginning of this year, The Big Bang Theory is going to come to an end in 2019 after the conclusion of its 12th season—which begins next month. That will put the show at 279 episodes, securing its spot as the longest-running muti-camera comedy in TV history and…
Welcome to a CBS-themed incarnation of Development Hell, the fiery pit into which we fling recent CBS-related developments in casting, distribution, and everything else that’s new and mildly interesting in the Boschian phantasmagoria of the entertainment industry.
In January, when CBS announced that it was reviving Murphy Brown, we noted that the show would be modernizing its investigative journalist action with some bleeding-edge timeliness, as Candice Bergen’s eponymous Murphy Brown would be entering a world of “fake news,” Fox News (called “Wolf Network” in the Murphy…
[Note: This article contains descriptions of sexual assault.]
The story hasn’t even been published yet, but reports of an upcoming New Yorker exposé revealing allegations of sexual misconduct against CEO Leslie Moonves have already caused CBS stock to fall nearly six percent as the media company’s board says it plans to investigate the charges against him. Fueling the panic at…
Last week, we reported that Alex Kurtzman would be stepping in to replace Star Trek: Discovery showrunners Aaron Harberts and Gretchen J. Berg (who just announced that they’re leaving the show in the midst of production on its second season). According to Deadline, though, that’s just a small part of Kurtzman’s new …
Because The A.V. Club knows that TV shows keep going even if we’re not writing at length about them, we’re experimenting with discussion posts. For certain shows, one of our TV writers will publish some brief thoughts about the latest episode, and open the comments for readers…
You know what they say about making a classic sitcom: If the ratings for your genially inoffensive family sitcom aren’t quite as high as you’d like them to be, cold-bloodedly murder the wife in between seasons and then shrug off the explanation in the first episode back with a joke about kung-fu lessons.
After last week’s cancellations, pickups, and 11th-hour rescues, the broadcast networks are convening in New York this week for the annual TV ritual known as upfront presentations, in which America’s broadcasters announce their fall lineups to potential advertisers. This post will continue to update as those schedules…
Because The A.V. Club knows that TV shows keep going even if we’re not writing at length about them, we’re experimenting with discussion posts. For certain shows, one of our TV writers will publish some brief thoughts about the latest episode, and open the comments for readers to…
Stephen Colbert and Candice Bergen added some spice to CBS’s upfront presentation today, with the Late Show openly mocking the president from the dais while the Murphy Brown star made meta-jabs from within a trailer for the revival. We have that preview and more in today’s installment of Trailer Happy Hour: Upfronts…
