TCA Update: Les Moonves Talks NFL; Nina Tassler Touches Hot Topics; Latest 'NCIS' Spinoff Plots Crossovers
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CBS Chief Nina Tassler on 'Late Night,' 'Good Wife' Snub and 'Big Bang Theory' Contracts
CBS' entertainment chairman was forced to address other hot topics including diversity and consolidation during her stop at the TCA. | Read More
CBS and NFL Differ on 'Thursday Night Football' Future
Leslie Moonves talks about using fall's eight games to woo the league into a long-term deal, while commissioner Roger Goodell is adamant that some games stay on the NFL Network. | Read More
'NCIS: New Orleans' Adds New Regular, Plans More Crossovers
Rob Kerkovich joins the spinoff as new colleague for CCH Pounder's character, while producers are already planning for EP Harmon, Michael Weatherly and Pauley Perrette to head to the rookie drama. | Read More
'Scorpion' Producer Embraces 'Big Bang Theory' Comparison
Exec producer Nick Santora says his series looks to emulate the slow burn of "Big Bang Theory's" emotionally stunted geniuses and romantic relationships. | Read More
Vince Gilligan Talks 'Battle Creek' Role, Vintage Scripts, Cereal TV
"It's more embarrassing to say that I've never actually been to Battle Creek, Michigan," says the creator, who's largely handing over his 12-year-old project to showrunner David Shore. | Read More
'Two and a Half Men' to Explore Gay Adoption in Final Season
CBS Entertainment chairman Nina Tassler reveals that Walden will propose to Alan and look to adopt as a gay couple. | Read More
'Madam Secretary' Hopes to Pull Back the Curtain on State Department
Executive producer Morgan Freeman contemplated his on-screen role on CBS' Sunday drama, centered on a female Secretary of State, joking that he could play a religions professor: "I have a little experience playing God." | Read More
CBS Is Not No. 1 and Someone Will Suffer — At Another Network (Analysis)
Being No. 1 in overall viewers but No. 3 in the demo (ouch) makes CBS hungrier and more focused than ever — but getting football calms the nerves. | Read More
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Written by José Vizcarra
on Thursday, July 17, 2014 at 5:14 PM.

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