This week’s recap of news about 21st Century Fox and its businesses includes “The Favourite” winning seven BAFTA Awards, “The Masked Singer” continuing to draw big audiences, FOX renewing “Family Guy” and “Bob’s Burgers,” “Alita: Battle Angel” off to a good start, and more.
- BAFTA Awards: ‘The Favourite’ dominates with 7 wins, but ‘Roma’ claims top prize (The Hollywood Reporter)
- TV ratings: ‘Masked Singer’ winning streak continues (The Hollywood Reporter)
- FOX’s ‘Masked Singer’ injects new life into a lagging genre (Variety)
- ‘Family Guy,’ ‘Bob’s Burgers’ renewed at FOX (The Hollywood Reporter)
- Box office: ‘Alita: Battle Angel’ wins Valentine’s Day with $8.7M (The Hollywood Reporter)
- FOX News rides presidential SOTU to top of weekly cable primetime rating chart (Multichannel News)
- ‘Yellowstone Live’, ‘Planet of the Whales’, ‘Photo Ark’ lead Nat Geo Slate – TCA (Deadline)
- Nat Geo hands series order to adaptation of Tom Wolfe’s ‘The Right Stuff’ from Leonardo DiCaprio’s Appian Way – TCA (Deadline)
- TCA 2019: Nat Geo sets ‘Genius: Aretha Franklin;’ Suzan-Lori Parks to serve as exec. producer (Broadcasting & Cable)
- ‘Running Wild With Bear Grylls’ moves from NBC to Nat Geo (The Hollywood Reporter)
- Uzo Aduba, Rachel Brosnahan, Hugh Jackman team with Nat Geo on ‘Activate’ docuseries; ‘Yellowstone Live’ renewed, more (Deadline)
- ‘Howie Mandel’s Animals Doing Things’ renewed at Nat Geo WILD (Variety)
- Oscar-nominated documentary ‘Free Solo’ will air March 3, ad-free, on National Geographic (Adweek)
- Fox stands behind Jussie Smollett in wake of staged assault report (Variety)
- Oscar-nominated short film ‘Skin’ acquired by Fox Searchlight (Deadline)
- Frances McDormand’s ‘Nomadland’ bought by Fox Searchlight (Variety)
- FOX orders drama pilot from Annie Weisman, Jason Katims (Variety)
- Changes in the executive suites at FOX (TVNewsCheck)
- Page joins Fox Stations as VP for digital sales (Broadcasting & Cable)
- FOX News Channel names Michael Tammero as SVP event marketing (Deadline)
- FOX News shakes up ad pitch to Madison Avenue (Variety)
- ‘Mental Samurai’ & ‘MasterChef Junior’ premiere dates shifted again by FOX – Update (Deadline)
Enjoy the weekend!
