CBS’s Les Moonves Sees Netflix Freedom as ‘Overrated’

Los Angeles Times: For filmmakers and television producers, Netflix and other digital media players offer some oft-touted perks. They pay healthy sums of money for their original movies and TV shows, and, some argue, give their filmmakers more freedom than the traditional system. But don’t tell that to CBS CEO Les Moonves. “Autonomy is overrated,” the exec said in remarks at the Milken Institute Global Conference in Beverly Hills, adding that he helped cast the popular 1990s sitcom “Friends.” “I’d like to think, as a television executive, that we add something to the process.”