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From the outset, Sumner Redstone was a curiosity. A cluster of power players 50 years ago were suddenly bidding for control of Hollywood's revered movie studios. Competition was intense but most of the bidders were not even “movie” people. In fact…

EXCLUSIVE: Big Brother is returning for another season on CBS next year and so is Julie Chen Moonves as the host of the long-running reality show. The former The Talk co-host has inked a deal with the Viacom-merging company to do Season 22 of Big Brother, I've learned. The next installment is slated to air next…

Former CBS chairman/CEO Leslie Moonves and CBS corporate filed legal briefs Friday in connection with a shareholder lawsuit that accuses CBS, its board and Moonves of failing to disclose information that would affect business operations and stock prices. The Moonves comments are believed to be his first public…

The top executives of long-running CBS News show 60 Minutes created a culture where bullying, verbal abuse and sexual harassment thrived, according to an investigative report by two prominent law firms. The New York Times reported today on a leaked draft copy of the report, detailing the allegations against the…

Two weeks after Julie Chen, wife of ousted CBS Corp CEO Leslie Moonves, announced on-air she was exiting The Talk “to spend more time at home with my husband and our young son,” one of Moonves’s accusers told her story for the first time on TV to The Talk competitor The View. Illeana Douglas said that, in 1996, she…

Tonight marks the beginning of the 2018-19 broadcast season. Years ago, it would’ve been a big event, marking the end of four months of repeats and the return of originals to TV. For the networks, it was a make-or-break time as the overnight ratings during premiere week determined whether their new series were hits or…

Big Brother (1.6 rating in the adults 18-49 demo, 6.19 million viewers) was Thursday’s most watched broadcast program at 9 PM, besting its Big 4 time-slot competition combined in the demo. It was Thursday’s only original primetime program on the broadcast nets. CBS The Big Bang Theory repeat (1.2, 7.54M) dominated 8…

CBS issued a statement about Julie Chen’s exit from The Talk, moments after the show aired her taped message announcing she was stepping down from the program, on which she has been a panelist since its launch. For eight seasons, Julie Chen has co-hosted The Talk with incredible energy, grace and professionalism. Her t…

CBS daytime show The Talk is now free to discuss the ongoing #MeToo movement without walking on eggshells; show Den Mom Julie Chen announced Tuesday that she is leaving, effective immediately. “I have been at The Talk since the day it started nine year ago,” Chen said in a message that viewers were told had been…

Panelists on CBS daytime gabfest The Talk very noticeably did not talk about colleague Julie Chen’s dramatic return to the network Thursday night. The Talk episode was taped in advance of Chen’s return. Competing daytime talker The View was happy to take up the slack. Panelists on that ABC show discussed at length…

The CBS board’s support for Leslie Moonves finally ran out following the revelation that he tried to buy an accuser’s silence by getting her a job at the network, according to the New York Times. The Times article, citing unnamed senior sources, claims that multiple board members were determined to support Moonves…

UPDATED with Fager statement: CBS News chief David Rhodes issued a statement Wednesday announcing that Jeff Fager, longtime division exec and current executive producer of 60 Minutes, was stepping down “effective immediately.” Fager is out in the wake of sexual harassment allegations, including a new one on Sunday…