This week’s recap of news about 21st Century Fox and its businesses includes FOX hitting its highest Live+7 ratings in nearly three years, a big year for Maria Bartiromo’s FOX Business morning show, Guillermo Del Toro remaking a horror film for Fox Searchlight, Deadpool vs. critics and more.
- Live+7 ratings for week of Nov. 26: FOX hits highest numbers in nearly three years (Variety)
- Primetime ratings: FOX wins with Chargers-Chiefs (Broadcasting & Cable)
- Friday ratings: FOX’s ‘Last Man Standing’ takes the demo race, with CBS topping total viewership (Deadline)
- Maria Bartiromo’s FOX Business morning show beats CNBC’s ‘Squawk Box’ for first year ever (TheWrap)
- Guillermo Del Toro to produce horror remake ‘Terrified’ for Fox Searchlight (Variety)
- UFC on FOX 31 draws best numbers in two years for overnight ratings (MMA Fighting)
- Rupert Murdoch’s very big 2018 caps a career of Hollywood disruption (The Hollywood Reporter)
- New Fox strategy echoes old Fox: Lots of sports, especially NFL (Bloomberg)
- How ‘Once Upon a Deadpool’ takes on its critics (The Hollywood Reporter)
- ‘Extra’ moves from NBC O&Os to Fox Stations in top markets (Variety)
- ‘The Passage’ writer Liz Heldens inks new overall deal at 20th Century Fox TV (Variety)
- FOX orders Tate Taylor southern drama pilot ‘Filthy Rich’ from Imagine & 20th TV (Deadline)
- 20th Century Fox snaps up ‘Grown-ish’ scribes’ comedy spec ‘The Guysmaids’ with Kenya Barris producing (Deadline)
- FOX developing multi-cultural comedy ‘Adapted’ from ‘The Last O.G.’ trio & Jeff Gaspin (Deadline)
- Lisa Kudrow animated comedy in the works at FOX (The Hollywood Reporter)
- Sling TV, ESPN and Fox Now arrive on Oculus Go (Engadget)
- MLB commissioner on Fox RSNs: ‘We’re interested’ (Multichannel News)
- FOX, FS1 will again broadcast Jr. NBA Global Championship in 2019 (Sports Video Group)
- FOX Sports goes bowling with StrikeTrack graphics (Broadcasting & Cable)
- Fox’s Sharri Berg explains why FOX News Multimedia Reporter Program is vital to the future of TV journalism (TVNewser)
- Star India comes out with ‘Star Value Pack’ for Karnataka (Business Standard)
- Star India moving all US content to Hotstar OTT channel (SportsPro Media)
Enjoy the weekend!
