New CBS entertainment chief vows more prime-time diversity

“I was shocked and heartbroken when @CBS canceled #MikeAndMolly”, star McCarthy, who rose to A-list status since the show’s launch in 2010, wrote on Twitter Dec. 14.

Seven years is a very long time to do any one job, and in TV years, it’s practically an eternity.

While speaking at a Television Critics Association executive session panel, CBS president Glenn Geller said the network aims to air the series’ fifth season soon.

While it’s likely that CBS’s decision-making will come down to the financial needs of the network and not the desires of The Good Wife’s creators, there’s something to be said for letting the people who created something decide how that thing will end.

“It’s just January, so we have to determine if there will be another season or not”, Geller told the TCA audience. “He did ask me to save whatever conversations we had for the interview…so hopefully that will make the interview interesting”, Rose said, adding, “I don’t think he’ll be doing any other interviews until we sit down”.

“We have a lot of new series in development, both series targeted to have full African-American or Latino casts but also many leads that are being developed [as diverse]”, Geller said, THR reports. CBS is set to change that, the network revealed today. “I mentioned my husband earlier and I talk about him publicly because i want to normalize my diversity”.

If CBS goes ahead with an eighth season, I have little confidence that the Kings will be willing to give it much of their focus even in a “supervisory” role. CBS has been working on the series since October, and while they have not cast Nancy yet, CBS guarantees she will be a woman of color. The show is already straining to hold together with the entire Lockhart, Agos, and Lee plot line clinging on for dear life.

Geller, a 14-year veteran, says some of his programming strategy comes from a reality-TV point of view. “I completely understand that and wish him well”.

Now it’s official: CBS really is saying goodbye to “Mike & Molly”.

In the show, which is based on a United Kingdom series, teams of two are hunted by law enforcement professionals and can win $100,000 if they manage to evade their pursuers for 28 days. “The first buy for me as entertainment president is called Hunted”.