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Fox veteran Nissa Diederich, EVP Production for Touchstone Television, has been promoted to EVP Production, 20th Television. She will oversee production for the combined studio operation following the recent consolidation of Disney TV Studios’ 20th TV and Touchstone TV divisions. She will assume the responsibilities…

EXCLUSIVE: Chicago PD alumna Sophia Bush is returning to television. In one of the biggest sales so far this pitch season, CBS has given a production commitment to Surveillance, a spy thriller drama starring Bush, from The Passage and Batman‘s Matt Reeves, writer David C. White (Sons of Liberty), director Patricia…

“I was remarkably unfazed,” Seth MacFarlane told TV critics when asked his reaction to learning he that will be producing at Disney now that that Disney has bought, among other Fox lot assets, 20th TV production operation. “This kind of stuff happens,” MacFarlane told the critics after a Family Guy table read at TCA…

Are they about to take new clients at McKenzie, Brackman, Chaney and Kuzak? L.A. Law co-creator Steven Bochco said this morning that he and 20th Television are developing a new take on the Emmy-winning legal drama that aired from 1986-94 on NBC. Bochco spilled the news on The Rich Eisen Show. “Over the years we’ve…

Twentieth Television veteran Ken Lawson has a new title. Effective today, he is the company’s SVP and General Sales Manager of Broadcast Syndication Sales. The former SVP and National Sales Manager now will oversee all broadcast sales initiatives on behalf of 20th TV. He replaces Paul Franklin, who was…

Respected production executive Bruce Margolis who recently left 20th Century Fox TV after 18 years, taking the voluntary buyout offer to become an independent producer, is returning to the studio with an overall deal. Margolis' first assignment is to serve as co-executive producer on Lee Daniels' and Tom Donaghy's…

Director-producer Brad Buecker, a long-time close collaborator of Ryan Murphy, has signed an overall deal with 20th Century Fox Television where Murphy also is based. Under the multi-year pact, Buecker will continue to executive produce FX/20th TV’s American Horror Story, co-created/executive produced by Murphy, as…

Writer-producer Liz Heldens has signed an overall deal with 20th Century Fox TV. Under the two-year pact, she will join the studio’s upcoming straight-to-series comedic drama created, executive produced by and starring Seth MacFarlane as executive producer. For the past two years, Heldens was under an overall deal at…

Young comedy writer Niki Schwartz-Wright has signed her first overall deal, a 2 + 1 pact with 20th Century Fox TV. It stems from her stint as a producer on the studio’s Fox comedy series The Grinder this past season. Under the overall deal, Schwartz-Wright will join 20th TV’s new ABC comedy series Speechless as…