On Thursday night, after an agonizing, devastating, infuriating day of Kavanaugh hearings, Murphy Brown returned to prime-time television for the first time in two decades, after its initial final episode aired in 1998. Set in the present after Murphy Brown’s (Candice Bergen) retirement from televised news journalism,…
Julie Chen is really going above and beyond in defending her husband/disgraced former CBS head Les Moonves, with Page Six reporting that she intends to leave her job as a co-host at The Talk in a messed up act of solidarity.
Julie Suzanne Chen, TV host and journalist who has gone by “Julie Chen” for the entirety of her career, signed off from last night’s episode of Big Brother, the show she has hosted for 18 years, by saying, “From outside the Big Brother house, I’m Julie Chen Moonves. Good night.”
Since The New Yorker dropped its recent investigation on former CBS chairman and CEO Leslie Moonves, nearly a dozen women have come out accusing him of sexual assault and harassment. Even after leaving CBS, it was reported on Monday that Moonves would still be kept on as an unpaid advisor at the network in addition to…
I have a new favorite person and her name is Linda Bloodworth Thomason. Today, in The Hollywood Reporter, the longtime television writer and Designing Women creator, went after former CBS executive Les Moonves, who stands accused of sexual assault and harassment by a dozen women. She is my new favorite person because…
Leslie Moonves finally stepped down as CEO of CBS after a fresh round of sexual assault and harassment allegations made it impossible for the network to justify keeping him on its payroll. But that doesn’t mean he won’t be sticking around as an “unpaid advisor”! How very Ivanka of him.
Following six new allegations of sexual harassment and rape, longtime CBS C.E.O. Les Moonves has resigned effective immediately. Moonves has called the accusations–which include forcing oral sex on two women, pulling his penis out in a 9 a.m. meeting, physically overpowering women, and vindictively shattering…
Six more women have come forward to accuse CBS executive Les Moonves of sexual assault and harassment, according to a new report by Ronan Farrow in the New Yorker. Moonves has now been accused of sexual misconduct by a total of 12 women, and CNN reports his departure is now imminent.
Shortly after Ronan Farrow published a piece in the New Yorker accusing CBS CEO and chairman Leslie Moonves of sexually harassing six women, the board said it was launching an investigation into these allegations and hired two law firms to do so. There has been little movement or word on the results of that…
CBS’s revival of Murphy Brown is going to dive right into the #MeToo movement, creator Diane English said over the weekend, despite the ongoing saga regarding sexual misconduct allegations against network CEO Les Moonves.
On Sunday, CBS Entertainment president Kelly Kahl addressed members of the press at the Television Critics Association summer tour. He says it’s been a “tough week,” referring to what can only be interpreted as, oh, what to do about many sexual abuse allegations against Les Moonves, the network’s CEO and one of the…
On Tuesday, the Los Angles Times reported that the Los Angeles County district attorney will not pursue sex crime charges related to complaints made by a woman against CBS CEO and chairman Les Moonves.
CBS’s board hasn’t quite figured out what to do with Les Moonves, the network’s chairman and chief executive, following a bombshell report in the New Yorker detailing allegations of sexual misconduct against him.
Details are currently sparse, but there’s reportedly a Ronan Farrow New Yorker piece coming on CBS chairman and CEO Leslie Moonves, one of the most powerful men in media, including allegations of sexual misconduct.
On Monday night, comedy queen Carol Burnett appeared on Conan where host Conan O’Brien asked her how things have changed for women in the industry since she came up. Boy, does she have a story.
On Tuesday, CBS announced that an interview with Dylan Farrow by CBS This Morning co-host Gayle King will air on Thursday. Per CBS, the interview will cover “[Farrow’s] allegations that she was sexually abused by her father, Woody Allen, and…Hollywood’s Time’s Up movement.”
A former CBS employee named Erin Gee has filed a federal suit in Manhattan against the broadcasting company for alleged sexual discrimination. According to Gee, at one point during her 17-year employment with the network, she was told by a boss to sleep with a coworker to “break the ice.”
On Monday, actress and reality TV personality Ariane Bellamar took to Twitter to air groping allegations against actor Jeremy Piven. Bellamar claims Piven groped her breasts in his trailer while he was working on the HBO series Entourage (a show which, incidentally, revolved around a click of piggish Hollywood males).…
All hope is not lost for the Nancy Drew TV series that executives, if not fans, have been thirsting for. After CBS dropped the project last year in part because it “skewed too female,” NBC is here to pick up the remains, refashioning them into a different concept altogether.
Doctor Oz, who vies daily with Dr. Phil and Steve Harvey for the title of “most annoying media personality unleashed by Oprah,” has signed on as executive producer for a TV show being developed at CBS about medical miracles. Yeah, that sounds about right.
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