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...past couple of weeks, CBS television President Les Moonves has been the man in the hot seat. After a conservative outcry, he abruptly canceled a mini-series about Ronald Reagan, only to draw fire from liberals complaining that he caved in to pressure. Moonves talked with TIME's Richard Zoglin about the episode--and some of the season's better news...
...warts, that it would show the good and the bad. Upon looking at the rough cut, I felt the movie was somewhat one-sided and it wasn't the movie I promised the public. The easier call would have to been to stick with it and put it on CBS. I felt I couldn't do that, and I made a moral decision...
Elizabeth Smart has a most unlikely hero: a star from a rival network, namely, John Walsh (Bruce Gooch), whose America's Most Wanted was instrumental in Emmanuel's capture. The winner of the CBS-NBC battle of the quickies, it turns out, is Fox. Two hours of prime-time advertising, and it didn't pay a cent. --By James Poniewozik
...timing is absolutely staggering to me. Obviously, it's very hurtful." NANCY REAGAN, former First Lady, on The Reagans, a controversial cbs mini-series based on the life of her husband, now ailing, and herself...
...CANCELLED. THE REAGANS, a four-hour cbs miniseries about Ronald Reagan and his wife Nancy, after Republicans complained that it was biased against the former U.S. President; in New York. The network shifted the TV series, which portrays Reagan as out of touch with reality, to pay channel Showtime; critics accused producers of surrendering their artistic independence...