Nina Tassler responds to Moonlight fans … sort of - TCA Report
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After I posted about what CBS entertainment president Nina Tassler stated about Moonlight the other day — namely that the campaign to save it was “actor-driven” instead of show-driven — angry comments came in from all the “loyal” fans of the show out there (I put the word “loyal” in quotes because Moonlight fans make the Jericho fans look cool and collected). Most of those fans stated that Tassler was a liar. One even went so far to attach the b-word to his invective. You’d have thought that Tassler drained these people’s 401(k)’s and skipped off to Central America.
Anyway, I caught up with Tassler at the CBS party that night, and I told her about the comments I was getting. When I speculated that I didn’t even think the Jericho fans were that passionate, she retorted, “I think they were. The Jericho fans … I spent a lot of time looking the blogs and the website. Look, I don’t want to say Moonlight fans weren’t fans of the show. They were. But in sort of sifting through all of it (the e-mails, etc.) it was very much about ‘our vampire, Alex (O’Laughlin).’” When I mentioned that some of the comments were pretty unsightly, she just looked at me and said, “It’s not a pretty business.”
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