Leadership announcements for proposed new “Fox” and Fox News, 2018 FOX upfront, “Deadpool 2”
This week’s recap of news about 21st Century Fox and its businesses includes leadership announcements for the proposed new “Fox” and Fox News, the 2018 FOX upfront presentation, a strong start for “Deadpool 2,” ratings for the series finale of “New Girl,” and more.
- Lachlan Murdoch named CEO of New Fox (The Hollywood Reporter)
- Suzanne Scott promoted to chief executive of Fox News (Los Angeles Times)
- FOX charts its merged future with vision of sports-fueled, ad-streamlined offering (Deadline)
- FOX fall 2018-19 schedule: Multi-camera comedy block on Friday, ‘9-1-1’ moves to Monday, ‘The Orville’ returns in December (Deadline)
- FOX fall 2018-2019 trailers: ‘Cool Kids,’ ‘Rel,’ ‘Last Man Standing’ (Variety)
- Fox to air ‘JAZ’ Pods’ during FX’s ‘The Weekly’ (Broadcasting & Cable)
- ‘Gotham’ renewed for fifth and final season at FOX (The Hollywood Reporter)
- Dana Walden, Gary Newman ink 1-year Fox contract extension as Disney sale looms (The Hollywood Reporter)
- ‘Deadpool 2’ scores R-rated Thursday night record with $18.6M (Deadline)
- FX gives series order to half-hour drama ‘Mr Inbetween’ (Variety)
- Kenya Barris sets divorce comedy movie at Fox (Deadline)
- TV ratings: ‘New Girl’ series finale jumps 20% week-to-week (Variety)
- FOX tees up 5G technology to deliver 4K HDR coverage at U.S. Open (Sports Video Group)
- IPL registers 40% viewership growth in first five weeks: Star Sports (InsideSport.co)
- Non-live IPL content contributes incremental 144 million in reach (Business Standard)
- Peak FX: Better things for basic cable (AdAge)
Enjoy the weekend!
