Seriously...

They seriously came out and said this? CBS literally gives no ****s.

The show came from the same creators as Doubt, which they did pick up for the fall, so I'm wondering if this was some sort of "either or" situation.

2 Broke Girls is their only show worth watching so I don't know what they're thinking

Maybe they meant it wouldn't appeal to a broad audience or a specific audience they were trying to target.

!!!!! Literally if you're reading that's you'll see they meant not that they have too many female shows like the op/title is saying.

Their female leading shows >>>>>>>>>> rest of line-up

Most pilots don't get picked up anyway. Maybe this one was weak.

The concept sounds weak to me anyway. Isn't a key aspect of the Nancy Drew character that she is a teenager amateur detective. Making her a police detective in her 30s just seems to ditch all those characteristics in favour of a much more generic TV cop show. Why not just create a TV show about a new female detective instead of changing every aspect of Nancy Drew except the name?

None of us can judge the pilot though. None of us have seen it!

Even in that context...
"Broad audience."

Women are 51% of the US population.

The "specific audience" they were trying to target is clearly straight white men, because that's what something like 18 of their 22 primetime programs focus on. If they cared about female audiences they would greenlight projects that test well with female audiences... Like this one evidently did.

The audience wants what it wants I guess, poor females

Supergirl's flop impact!

All the current running CBS shows are bad as hell

maybe Survivor is slightly better than the other shows, but still...boring

2BG & Mom are the best shows on tv right now

Well, women are easier to reach and basically all of CBS is more female than male audience anyway.

60+% female Mike and Molly, Criminal Minds, Hawaii, Code Black, Criminal Minds Beyond Borders, Survivor
51+% female Big Bang, Mom, Broke Girls, Life in Pieces, Odd Couple, NCIS, Scorpion, Blue Bloods, NCISNO, NCISLA, Limitless, Person of Interest, Madam Secretary, Rush Hour, Elementary, Undercover Boss, Amazing Race

They have zero trouble reaching female audiences so aren't worried.

And that's exactly why they can't revive Charmed

When did Supergirl move to the CW ? And will CBS promote the move so the CW can finally hit 5M+ views at least.

Male audience are more fickle than your female ones. Once they don't like the show during the pilot episode, they'll drop it like it's nobody's else business. It's just business. Competition is just fierce on TV what with cable shows slaying left and right.

LOL, but 'sexism isn't real'.

“We are the network that has Madam Secretary and Two Broke Girls and Mom – we have lots of female leads, we have a great balance,” said CBS Entertainment president Glenn Geller. “Actually our new series are more diverse this year than last year. When Doubt premieres, I’m happy to say it’s the first broadcast series to feature a transgender series regular played by a transgender actor. I think that’s phenomenal. We are definitely moving in the right direction.”




CBS president believes that having 3 female-led programs out of 22 total shows is "a great balance."


And let's not even get into the fact that they have 0/22 shows led by non-white actors. Is that a "great balance" too?

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