This week’s recap of news about 21st Century Fox and its businesses includes FOX News Channel enjoying the most-watched primetime year in its history, strong ratings for FOX’s Thursday Night Football game, “Bohemian Rhapsody” becoming the all-time top music biopic, “Once Upon a Deadpool” raking in $1 million on its first day and more.
- FOX News Channel tops basic cable in 2018; Sean Hannity leads lineup (Deadline)
- Primetime ratings: FOX wins with Chargers-Chiefs (Broadcasting & Cable)
- FOX’s MLS Cup final ratings best since 1997 (Deadline)
- TV ratings: ‘Simpsons,’ ‘Bob’s Burgers’ spike with NFL assist (The Hollywood Reporter)
- ‘Bohemian Rhapsody’ rocks past $600M WW; becomes all-time top music biopic (Deadline)
- Box office: ‘Once Upon a Deadpool’ earns $1 million on Wednesday (Variety)
- Portion of ‘Once Upon a Deadpool’ proceeds to be donated to cancer foundation (The Hollywood Reporter)
- ‘Mary Queen of Scots’ opens regal; ‘The Favourite’ expands strong (Deadline)
- ‘The Orville’ & ‘Good Trouble’ eye renewals after landing tax incentives for future seasons (Deadline)
- ‘Americans,’ ‘Gianni Versace,’ ‘Escape at Dannemora’ lead Critics’ Choice Awards TV nominations (Variety)
- ‘The Favourite,’ ‘Black Panther,’ ‘First Man’ lead Critics’ Choice movie nominations (Variety)
- The great NFL heist: How FOX paid for and changed football forever (The Ringer)
- ‘Bless This Mess’ Fox comedy pilot picked up to series by ABC (Deadline)
- Fox acquires Matthew Baker short story ‘To Be Read Backwards;’ Noah Hawley to direct (Deadline)
- Reese Witherspoon to produce ‘Where the Crawdads Sing’ adaptation for Fox 2000 (Variety)
- Fox 2000, 21 Laps win screen auction to ‘Mothers, Lock up Your Daughters Because They Are Terrifying’ (Deadline)
- Miranda Otto, Zoë Chao, Zach Woods join Julia Louis-Dreyfus & Will Ferrell in ‘Downhill’ at Fox Searchlight (Deadline)
- iHeartRadio Music Awards move to FOX (Variety)
- NBC tops fall ratings by a shrinking margin as new FOX makes a big play (The Hollywood Reporter)
- Number of streaming shows overtakes basic cable, broadcast for first time, FX reports (Variety)
- Fox Innovation Lab releases 5G study on U.S. Open trial (Media Play News)
- Fox Networks Group launches streaming service FoxNow in Europe (The Hollywood Reporter)
Enjoy the weekend!
