Nat Geo’s upfront, ‘Scully Effect,’ FOX Sports launching TNF pregame show
This week’s recap of news about 21st Century Fox and its businesses includes National Geographic’s Further Front event, Sky and Nat Geo fighting to eradicate plastic litter in oceans, FOX Sports launching a Thursday Night Football pregame show, FoxNext’s ‘Alien’ location-based VR experience and more.
- National Geographic’s upfront pitch highlights power of storytelling and returning franchises (Adweek)
- Sky and National Geographic collaborate in ocean plastics fight (The Drum)
- Women who watched ‘The X-Files’ pursued more careers in STEM (Fast Company)
- FOX Sports to air 150 hours of live coverage across 9 USGA title events (Golfweek)
- FOX to launch Thursday Night Football pregame (TVNewsCheck)
- ESPN, FOX Sports team up for UFC TV-rights bid (Variety)
- FOX Sports produces ‘Cape Cod: A Journey to the Bigs’ special for FS1, regional networks (Awful Announcing)
- IPL 11 scores big in 1st week as viewership soars to 213.9 million (Livemint)
- Fox strikes FX programming deals with Canal+ and HBO in Europe (Variety)
- FoxNext to open ‘Alien: Descent’ location-based virtual reality experience (The Hollywood Reporter)
- FOX’s ‘The Four’ brings back original panel lineup, minus Charlie Walk (Variety)
- Fox News Channel recaptures weekly primetime ratings crown (Broadcasting & Cable)
- ‘Greatest Showman’ sings up a No. 1 disc debut (Media Play News)
- ‘Deadpool 2’ breaks advance ticket sales records for Regal Cinemas (Deadline)
- NBCUniversal, Fox, Turner and Viacom unite around TV ad standards (Deadline)
- Fox, AMC Networks lead $75 million funding round for FuboTV (Bloomberg)
Enjoy the weekend!
