{"id":57236,"date":"2014-10-16T20:12:40","date_gmt":"2014-10-17T03:12:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.csifiles.com\/content\/?p=57236"},"modified":"2014-10-16T20:12:40","modified_gmt":"2014-10-17T03:12:40","slug":"moonves-talks-csi-ncis-franchise-expansion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.csifiles.com\/content\/2014\/10\/moonves-talks-csi-ncis-franchise-expansion\/","title":{"rendered":"Moonves Talks &#8216;CSI&#8217; &#038; &#8216;NCIS&#8217; Franchise Expansion"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b>Les Moonves<\/b>, president and CEO of CBS Corporation, recently spoke to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.worldscreen.com\/articles\/display\/2014-10-9-cbscorporation-lesliemoonves\">World Screen<\/a> about the network, and here&#8217;s a quote about the addition of <I>NCIS: New Orleans<\/i> and <I>CSI: Cyber<\/i> to the CBS lineup:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><b>WS:<\/b> The <i>NCIS<\/i> and <i>CSI<\/i> franchises have been expanded. How do you and your team decide when another show can be added to a franchise?<\/p>\n<p>\n<b>MOONVES:<\/b> It\u2019s really interesting. Both came about in different ways. <i>NCIS<\/i> is still the number one drama on television. It became self-evident that it would be a great idea to expand the franchise to another city while the original <i>NCIS<\/i> is doing phenomenally well. We have <b>Gary Glasberg<\/b>, who is the executive producer of <i>NCIS<\/i>, in charge of <i>NCIS: New Orleans<\/i> and it became a great opportunity. In the case of <i>CSI: Cyber<\/i>, it\u2019s a very interesting story. It was an idea that was pitched to us about a particular character, and it really fit into the <i>CSI<\/i> franchise. It wasn\u2019t our intent, per se, to look for another <i>CSI<\/i>. Instead, this idea came in and it fit perfectly for that franchise. Once again, both <i>CSI<\/i> and <i>NCIS<\/i> are selling extraordinarily well internationally and have a great deal of value, even after all these years. These are two different examples of how a franchise can expand, and we look forward to hopefully many more years of both of them.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Les Moonves, president and CEO of CBS Corporation, recently spoke to World Screen about the&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2906,3470,3242,3473],"tags":[3130],"class_list":["post-57236","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-csi-lv","category-csi-cyber","category-ncis","category-ncis-nola","tag-moonves"],"featured_image_urls":{"full":"","thumbnail":"","medium":"","medium_large":"","large":"","1536x1536":"","2048x2048":"","newsphere-slider-full":"","newsphere-featured":"","newsphere-medium":""},"author_info":{"display_name":"Rachel","author_link":"https:\/\/www.csifiles.com\/content\/author\/rachel\/"},"category_info":"<a href=\"https:\/\/www.csifiles.com\/content\/categories\/csi-lv\/\" rel=\"category tag\">CSI<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.csifiles.com\/content\/categories\/csi-cyber\/\" rel=\"category tag\">CSI: Cyber<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.csifiles.com\/content\/categories\/ncisall\/ncis\/\" rel=\"category tag\">NCIS<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.csifiles.com\/content\/categories\/ncisall\/ncis-nola\/\" rel=\"category tag\">NCIS: NOLA<\/a>","tag_info":"NCIS: NOLA","comment_count":"0","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.csifiles.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57236","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.csifiles.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.csifiles.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.csifiles.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.csifiles.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=57236"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.csifiles.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57236\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":57248,"href":"https:\/\/www.csifiles.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57236\/revisions\/57248"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.csifiles.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=57236"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.csifiles.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=57236"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.csifiles.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=57236"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}