New Fox chairman and CEO Lachlan Murdoch looked outside for a leader of the soon-to-be independent Fox broadcasting network that will emerge after Disney’s acquisition of key Fox assets. AMC President and General Manager Charlie Collier has been named CEO of Entertainment. He will start Nov. 1, reporting to Murdoch…

Lines are starting to be drawn between the 21st Century divisions that are about to join Disney as part of the company’s $71.3 billion acquisition and those that will remain part of a slimmed down “New Fox.” With a number of top Fox TV executives headed to Disney, including Peter Rice, Dana Walden and John…

Producers of Last Man Standing do not plan to address whether Tim Allen’s conservative lead character is a member of President Donald Trump’s base, Fox TV Group chairman/CEO Gary Newman told TV critics at TCA. “He’s a character with a conservative viewpoint,” Newman acknowledged, but added that he thinks of the…

Fox TV Group chairmen and CEOs Dana Walden and Gary Newman today outlined more of the vision for “New Fox”, the Fox Broadcast Company after its sister studio 20th Century Fox TV, along with other key 21st Century Fox assets, move to Disney in the pending acquisition. It was fitting that the two, who had been…

Fox Television Group Chairman/CEO Gary Newman is not expecting any Fox Broadcast talent or creators to bail in protest over Fox News Channel. The scrum question was a natural given last month’s outrage over some of the more “fringe sh*t” coming out of Fox News Channel stars these days, as Seth MacFarlane described it…

“It’s not on an incredibly, fast track, but we’re hopeful,” said Fox Television Group Chairman and CEO Gary Newman to the TCA press corps about the recent move to reboot Buffy the Vampire Slayer.  It was announced last month that Midnight, Texas creator Monica Owusu-Breen had been tapped as writer, executive producer…

Fox Television Group chairman/CEO Dana Walden says she is not sure how The Simpsons is going to deal with its Apu character going forward after a season dominated by controversy over the character. The network trusts Jim Brooks and team “to handle it in the way that’s best for the show,” Walden told inquiring TV…

As Fox assembles the pieces of its post-merger schedule, a big piece has fallen in place. Beginning in October 2019, the broadcast network will air World Wrestling Entertainment’s SmackDown Live, which has been on USA Network. Terms were not disclosed. Fox and the WWE both declined comment. News of the deal, which was…

This year’s Upfront Week always was going to be challenging, what with many of the most buzzed-about “new” series for next season having already debuted years (or decades) ago and corporate overlords consigning broadcasters to the back half of presentations in which hitting the two-hour mark means death. NBC believes…

Fox TV Group chairmen and CEOs Dana Walden and Gary Newman are in advanced negotiations for one-year extensions to their contracts so they can continue to oversee the company through the pending sale of key 21st Century Fox assets to Disney. (Comcast also has reportedly been prepping a possible hostile bid for 21st…

Fox execs offered ad buyers a vision of the “New Fox” future, walking them through its new “JAZ” commercial pods and a fall lineup they expect will draw 82% live viewing thanks to the addition of Thursday Night Football. Disney has announced its plan to acquire most of 21st Century Fox (though Comcast could also enter…

Fox execs said the success of ABC’s Roseanne revival emboldened them to revive Last Man Standing, but insisted they had been trying to return the Tim Allen starrer that ABC canceled two seasons back. “Everyone took a good hard look at the success of Roseanne,” Fox TV group co-chair/CEO Dana Walden told reporters on a…