 Just a quickie for all you “Moonlight” lovers out there, CBS Entertainment President Nina Tassler had this to say about the cancellation of the show: “Well, everybody knows I love vampires…werewolves, warlocks, I love ‘em all…but the response to ‘Moonlight’ was actually more actor-centric, so I think it certainly measures our decision on the show. Right now, I don’t question the decision we made.” Okay, what did I tell you people? If you’d just toned down the “Alex O’Loughlin is a hunka hunka burning vampire” stuff, maybe this show could’ve been saved… (For the record, though, she did say that she’d be glad to have him back on CBS again…in another series.) Filed under: TV and News and TV Dramas and External Entertainment and External TV and TCA Press Tour and TV Sci-Fi and TCA Blog 2008 Comments:
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I dont know what mail she was reading, but the Save the show campaigns were based on just that… THE SHOW. Not one actor or actress.
Of course this woman lied in print time and again, misleading fans and publications alike - why should her doing it here be a surprise.
The fact that she kept ALEX from the original cast and now specifically mentions ALEX again, solely, seems to point to HER being the one who’s focused on him.
Fans wanted and still want Moonlight - not the ALex O’Laughlin hour. She failed to shove Moonlight into the CSI mold and now it seems that she’s trying the next best thing in CBS world - surgically grafting one of the actors into CSI.
Considering how poorly the network treated the cast and crew as well as the fans and critics, I can’t see any of them wanting to hinge their immediate professional careers on someone so fickle and dishonest.
Keep telling yourself that nina-”Well, everyone knows I don’t know how to do my job & my brain is the size of Pinky’s” NARF!
Yeah, right now she doesn’t question the decision WE made…who the **** is we? You screwed up all by your lonesome.
I don’t understand why she would say something like that. The whole time fans were told it wasn’t a decision they could affect or change and that they should move on. Now she says the fans didn’t fight hard enough for the show?
Which one was the lie and why does she still have a job? This lady is really bad at PR.
You are SO RIGHT Jonathan. I am part of the “Save Our Show” campaign and blood drives for the American Red Cross, not “Save Alex”. But what gets me is they promote on the CBS website “HOW DO YOU LIKE YOUR MICK” Sexy - Hunky - Reflecty - Hungry ect….. then try to say the fans are the ones obsessed with him. It’s too bad Alex has a contract with CBS. I can see him and the other cast members being successful without any “help” from CBS.
Moonves better gag this woman, because she is so out of touch with what is going on she is making CBS look bad. From the very begining we have been
fighting for our show !!! WHAT IS WRONG WITH HER ?
We want our show back and that includes the actors
and actresses that played in it !!!! It just wasn’t about Alex, this show had a chemistry going
between all the actors/actresses. The story lines is what kept my interest. This show had a real love story as well as action and little wise cracks to chuckle at. This show was for all ages,
young and old, my children loved the show too. I
just don’t get her, the show was starting to take off, it’s ratings were better than Swingtown and
the Ex-list, face it, Tassler’s taste in show’s
just proves the mentality she has !!!!!
We are just walking,mindless,sex-starved women, who cannot appreciate anything but a half-naked man,right?
And to blame us for what happened because we “needed to tone down the hunka-hunka Alex stuff!” I have read countless posts from Moonlight fans and every one of them mentions a thousand reasons for their love of Moonlight, Alex just being one of them!
You go ahead and watch CSI 1,000 more times. I guess guys just like to watch murders and the now-getting-very-boring procedural solving of all cases in one hour AGAIN! That’s not mindless TV, is it?
From reading through these posts it pretty clear Moonlight fans are not rabid teeny bopper fans only interested in the actor of the show. Oh and if there were - you got numbers don’t you? I loved the STORY, the CHEMISTRY and ALL THE CAST. From the first episode I looked forward to the story continuing. After all the show won its timeslot week after week on a Friday night, won the People Choice Award for Best New Drama. Nina (aka Ms. Tasselbrain) what are you thinking – oh I forgot you’re not! If Swingtown and ExList are the best you’ve got – you have lost women all over the world, we are certainly not in your corner!! Where are the reruns of Moonlight, afraid the numbers might be a little too good???
So it’s our, the fans’, fault that Moonlight was not renewed. We did the wrong campaign, huh? Oh, you said the ratings were not going up enough after the strike, that’s our fault too because we were not campaigning enough (not that CBS did any advertising). And then you say we just didn’t write enough mail to you after the cancellation. So you basically say that writing letters to you after we did all those campaigns while Moonlight still aired would have helped?
Nina Tassler and her bosses made a business decision, it was a blatantly wrong one as many media still say. But to blame it on the fans, her customers, is really bad style. What do you want from us? That we cry in a corner and leave you alone? Won’t happen.
Keep it up…putting for fans down and you won\’t have any fans left. Do you really believe that the other shows that you have can\’t see how you treat the Moonlight fans. It will come back and bite you one day.
Well, she is not reading the mail, but of course she is getting it, snail mail, email, feedback..Come on, everybody knows that when something about Moonlight is posted the responses are huge, so you really think Nina is not getting any.She doesn’t regret canceling Moonlight with 8 million viewers , and doesn’t regret Swingtown with 5, come on , who is going to believe that??? That woman should not be in that kind of position, the way she talks about viewers and fans prove that. And yes I do believe in Karma, I’ll stii back ,relax and wait for Ms.Tassler to get hers.
Tassler is lying. Moonlight fans aren’t fighting for Alex. We are fighting for our SHOW. We love everything about Moonlight, the music, sets, writing, costumes, heck, we even discuss the paintings in Mick’s apartment and what they mean!
The show is what we are in love with…and the characters.
She’s got it ALL wrong. We wrote to her countless times about Moonlight. Emails, letters, postcards, etc. We went to Warner Brothers Studios in May, 100+ strong to rally in the rain (!!) to express our love for the SHOW.
She’s spinning things in the press for her benefit. Everything we do isn’t good enough. It’s all the fans’ fault Moonlight was cancelled. We don’t possibly spend our time writing to DirecTV, USA, Sci-Fi, TNT, and countless other networks to get our SHOW back on the air.
Right. Give me a break, Nina.
I’m sure that there were many dedicated fans who rallied for the show as a whole…in fact, I’m positive of it…but just speaking statistically, an overwhelming majority of the responses I’ve gotten from the various “Moonlight”-related postings on Premium Hollywood prior to this one have been very, very, VERY Alex-centric. As such, I have to believe that Tassler isn’t nearly as off-base as is being suggested here.
So, if I watch a show and like the main character and get to be a fan of the lead, that is a bad thing? Isn’t that what fandom is about, what TV-execs want to happen to their show so they sell better? How can you and Tassler now spin this to say Moonlight was cancelled because people responded to the actors? So, you should cancel House because people love Hugh Laurie, and Grey’s anatomy is only about Patrick Dempsey, so cancel it. Makes sense, doesn’t it?
I am a big Alex O’Loughlin fan….BUT… I want my
MOONLIGHT BACK!
Francis, I am not spinning it in any way. I am simply responding to Nina Tassler’s comments and suggesting that, whether her decision was right or wrong, it is very easy to conceive that she received a great deal of mail that praised Alex O’Loughlin more heavily than it praised the show as a whole.