FOX Announces Fall 2020 TV Schedule
The Masked Singer returns with Season 4 Monday, May 11 would have been the day that FOX took over New York City’s Beacon Theater to present its fall programming slate to a packed crowd of advertisers and media people. Instead of its glitzy annual upfront, which always includes a festive afterparty in Central Park which goes late into the night, the news went out via press release about what’s coming up on the fall schedule. The new...
Fox Heads Into Fall with Reboots, Sports and New Dramas
It’s a whole new ballgame for Fox Entertainment since 20th TV and 21st Century Fox were absorbed by Disney, making Fox an indie without a studio partner. Fox Entertainment CEO Charlie Collier touted the appeal of being a slimmed-down network at the Television Critics Association summer press tour last week at the Beverly Hilton. “Our independence allows us to question every assumption about what it means to be a broadcast...
NBC Universal, Fox and Telemundo Put on a Show for TV Upfronts
What a difference a year makes. Mergers, acquisitions and an ignoble fall from grace meant many of the pieces on the chessboard were rearranged during last week’s series of major network presentations for the 2019 TV upfronts, held in a variety of venues across New York City. Last May, CBS chairman Les Moonves appeared on stage at Carnegie Hall to huge applause as he battled a potential merger with Viacom. By the end of the year, he’d...
All That’s New at the ‘New’ Fox TV Network
Dana Walden didn’t waste a single second before addressing what was on everyone’s minds during Fox’s day at the TCA summer press tour at the Beverly Hilton hotel. It was to be the last time in that venue the Fox Television Group chairwoman and chief executive, along with Gary Newman, would represent the company under current 21st Century Fox ownership before Disney completes acquisition and takes the reins. “We are informally calling...
Highlights of TV’s Annual Upfront Programming Presentations
The dust is still settling from last week’s series of major network presentations for the 2018 TV upfronts. Despite the uncertainty in the air about potential mergers between CBS and Viacom, AT&T and Time Warner and even Disney and Fox with a rival Comcast bid coming into play, top executives across the board espoused an attitude of optimism about the future. Here’s a chronological snapshot of what went down during the whirlwind...
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