Beverly Hills, Calif. • Kelly Kahl is a brave man. The president of CBS Entertainment showed up at his network’s portion of the Television Critics Association press tour and took a lot of tough questions under the most difficult of circumstances while the chairman of the company, Leslie Moonves, faces allegations of sexual harassment.
As Kahl was doing so, a billboard truck calling for Moonves to be fired was circling the Beverly Hilton.
There were reports that Kahl would skip the session. That CBS could cancel all of its sessions. "Well, we wanted to be here,” Kahl said, adding that “literally thousands of talented producers, writers, actors and crews, not to mention all the people at CBS” have been working hard “for months to launch the fall season … and we think they deserve our best efforts to share all the new shows with all of you.