This week’s recap of news about 21st Century Fox and its businesses includes National Geographic’s day at the winter 2018 TCA press tour, “9-1-1” getting renewed for a second season, Fox News launching a documentary series, FoxNext Games acquiring Cold Iron Studios and more.
- National Geographic Channel sets premiere dates for new series, Jane Goodall documentary – TCA (Deadline)
- TCA 2018: Nat Geo renews ‘The Story of God with Morgan Freeman’ for third season (Multichannel News)
- Nat Geo Wild unveils four new series and slew of premiere dates – TCA (Deadline)
- Nat Geo TV goes shopping for movies, docu series at NATPE (Variety)
- NAACP Image Awards: ‘Empire,’ ‘Power,’ ‘black-ish,’ ‘Insecure’ among winners (TVLine)
- Ryan Murphy’s ‘9-1-1’ scores early Season 2 renewal at FOX (The Hollywood Reporter)
- TV ratings: ‘9-1-1’ builds big on ‘X-Files’ lead-in (Variety)
- Fox News to launch documentary series ‘Scandalous’ that will first examine Clinton impeachment process (Variety)
- How Dana Perino is helping young Fox News staffers prepare for their futures (TVNewser)
- 21st Century Fox’s FoxNext Games acquires studio developing ‘Alien’ shooter title (Variety)
- Fox is trying to win the rights to Thursday NFL games (Bloomberg)
- NATPE 2018: Fox TV stations renew ‘Page Six TV’ for second season (Broadcasting & Cable)
- IPL 2018: Cricket gets a virtual reality twist as Star India banks on tech (Business Standard)
- How FOX is using the post-NFC Championship slot, its most valuable real estate in 2018 (Adweek)
- Fox Searchlight’s Stephen Gilula and Nancy Utley on Sundance, the indie biz and being swallowed by Disney (Deadline)
Enjoy the weekend!
