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Les Moonves' role in Murder She Wrote's cancellation in 1996

posted 6 years ago by TMC-4 (20488)
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Since he has been in the news lately for all of the wrong reasons:
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Angela Lansbury says "Murder, She Wrote" is being killed, and she knows who's doing it.

Lansbury says CBS is effectively pushing the long-running mystery drama off the air by moving it from Sundays to Thursdays. She said she has decided this is the show's last season.

Lansbury accused the network of abandoning the older viewers who watch the show.

CBS Entertainment president Leslie Moonves said Lansbury is welcome to remain at the network: "Short of moving `Murder, She Wrote' back to Sunday," he said, "there is nothing that I or CBS will not do for her."

Lansbury said she hopes to star in a TV musical next year called "Mrs. Santa Claus" - on a network other than CBS.

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[–] TMC-4 (20488) 6 years ago

https://hrts.org/view-from-the-top-les-moonves-2011-luncheon-recap/?

Les Moonves in 2011: "When I first got to CBS, the sexiest woman on the network was Angela Lansbury but fortunately we’re doing a little bit better than that now."

[–] vilafire (660) 5 years ago

What a See U Next Tues.

He’s the same a$$hat who cancelled Star Trek, isn’t he?

Both MSW and Star Trek were consistent money/ratings earners (at worst, middling) but he wanted to get rid of them both because he was embarrassed, thinking they weren’t “cool.” What a loser.