Latest in Fox Entertainment

Tomiko Iwata has been promoted to EVP, Head of Creative Services, Fox Entertainment, effective immediately. The announcement was made by Charlie Collier, CEO, Fox Entertainment. Based in Los Angeles and reporting directly to Collier, Iwata is responsible for overseeing creative services for all of Fox, including…

Lisa Simpson has been named SVP Talent Relations at Fox Entertainment in a rebuild of the division. She will oversee the talent relations team and provide strategic support to all of the company's talent and their representatives. Talent relations is a major priority for newly independent Fox as it is looking to forge…

TV industry veteran Julia Franz is poised to become SVP and head of comedy for Fox Entertainment, while Daniel Weidenfeld is expected to be named SVP and head of animation at the broadcast network, I have learned. Franz will oversee all comedy production and development for the network; Weidenfeld will shepherd all…

Fox is developing Saloon, an animated comedy from writers Elliot Kalan (The Daily Show with Jon Stewart), Jenny Jaffe (Big Hero 6: The Series, Rugrats reboot), and Fox Entertainment-owned SideCar Content Accelerator, run by Gail Berman. If the project goes to production, it likely will be done in partnership with…

EXCLUSIVE: Fox has put in development The Perfect Couple, a one-hour mystery drama based on Elin Hilderbrand’s bestselling novel, from Fox Entertainment’s SideCar Content Accelerator. Search is underway for a writer to pen the adaptation. Based on Hilderbrand’s book, The Perfect Couple centers around wedding season on…

EXCLUSIVE: Fox Entertainment has acquired the rights to The Spellman Files book series by Lisa Lutz, which revolves about a family of PIs, to develop as a drama series. Forging a path as an independent broadcast network with no affiliated studio, Fox has been focusing on access to talent and source material. During…

Fox Entertainment has named former Sony exec Amy Carney as Chief Operating Officer. Carney spent 15 years at Sony, most recently as president, advertiser sales & research, and stepped down in April 2018. Based in LA and reporting to Fox Entertainment CEO Charlie Collier, she will be responsible for overseeing…

In the first major production company acquisition for Fox Entertainment since the network split with longtime studio partner 20th Century Fox TV after the Disney-Fox deal closed, the newly independent company has acquired Bento Box Entertainment, the animation house behind Fox’s Emmy-winning series Bob’s Burgers and…

Fox Entertainment's content development accelerator SideCar, launched in February and headed by Gail Berman, has set its executive team. The group includes some of Berman’s colleagues from her Fox-based The Jackal Group as well as auspices including The Walking Dead‘s Valhalla Entertainment and Fox’s Animation…

The new Fox Entertainment kicked off its first upfronts presentation Monday at the Beacon Theatre in New York. At the event last year, Gary Newman quipped that New Fox was so new even he and fellow chairman Dana Walden didn't know what it was in one of the presentation's best zingers. A year later, the new iteration…

Fox Entertainment CEO Charlie Collier today for the first time spoke publicly of his plans for the broadcast network without having to hedge his statements on the Disney-Fox deal going through. A week after Disney’s $71.5 billion acquisition of Fox assets was finally completed, Collier held his first Town Hall…

Empire broadcaster Fox and studio 20th Century Fox TV have released a statement following the dismissal of charges against Jussie Smollett. “Jussie Smollett has always maintained his innocence and we are gratified that all charges against him have been dismissed,” 20th Century Fox TV and Fox Entertainment said in the…