CBS Films President Responds to Sexual Harassment Allegations Against CBS Chief Leslie Moonves

President of CBS Films (Winchester, American Assassin) Terry Press has addressed the recent allegations of sexual harassment against CBS chief Leslie Moonves.

The allegations against Moonves, who joined CBS in July 1995, came to light in a story written by Ronan Farrow in The New Yorker, where six women went on-the-record to claim the media executive sexually harassed them between the 1980s and the late aughts.

On her personal Facebook page, Press said that Farrow’s piece “generates as many questions and answers,” and wondered if it was fair to “examine the industry as it existed decades before through the lens of 2018.”

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Netflix Picks Up Madam C.J. Walker Series from Octavia Spencer and LeBron James

Netflix has picked up a new limited series, Madam C.J. Walker, starring Octavia Spencer, and co-executive produced by Spencer and LeBron James.

As announced at Netflix’s TCA panel, Spencer will star as black hair care pioneer and mogul C.J. Walker, and tell the story of “how she overcame hostile turn-of-the-century America, epic rivalries, tumultuous marriages and some trifling family to become America’s first black, self-made female millionaire.”

The eight-episode series is based on the book on Her Own Ground by A’Lelia Bundles.

In more TCA news, Netflix announced a release date for its spooky Sabrina series, and the premiere date for the Emma Stone and Jonah hill series Maniac.

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