Faces to Watch in ’96 : The Year’s in Their Hands : Well, maybe not just theirs (notice we don’t list Jim Carrey). But these artists and entertainers--some you know, some you don’t--are most likely to make some kind of splash in ’96. Ready? Everybody into the pool. : TELEVISION : Leslie Moonves

Leslie Moonves can’t be held accountable for the lame slate of new shows he inherited as president of CBS Entertainment last summer. But the weight of judgment will fall squarely on his shoulders this spring, when he puts together his first schedule of programs to try to turn around the ailing network.

No one made that point more clearly than his boss, Peter Lund, the president of CBS Inc. At a press conference in November held by new owners Westinghouse Electric Corp. to reaffirm the management team in place at CBS, Lund emphatically blamed the network’s ratings slide on programming rather than Fox’s raid on the station affiliate lineup.

Moonves, 46, seems ready to retreat from the race to reach younger audiences that Madison Avenue craves in favor of once again embracing faithful older viewers on whom CBS built its last rally. Moonves has struck deals with two stars who could appeal to older viewers: Park Overall, the former co-star of “Empty Nest,” and Bill Cosby.

A network needs only one “ER” to break a slump. The question is how much time Westinghouse will give Moonves, who ransomed from CBS a four-year pay package worth $25 million, including a $5-million payout from the ownership change, for giving up his previous job as head of Warner Bros. Television.