Les Today, Late Edition: So Les wants more eyeballs for Showtime huh?

Les "Love Boat" Moonves has been watching HBO a little bit too much and now he wants to copy the HBO way of things. He says he plans to shake up Showtime in hopes of increasing the current subscription from 14 Million. (We can safely say that, No Julie Chen will not be named President of Showtime) Speaking at Morgan Stanley’s annual media investor conference, Moonves said Showtime needed to take a page out of HBO's book, programming to large audiences and not the nation's army of television critics. “One of things we’re going to do with Showtime … is make it more commercial,” Moonves said. “There’s no reason Showtime can’t have the next Sopranos. HBO has made their bones with Sopranos and Sex and the City, [while] Showtime is a little bit too much of an off-off broadway play. They’re interested in critics more than audiences.” Wait a minute, aren't we all critics? read....