This week’s recap of news about 21st Century Fox and its businesses includes Live+7 ratings for “The Masked Singer,” National Geographic Documentary Films greenlighting its next feature project, Hotstar remaking “The Office” in India and more.
- Live+7 ratings for week of Feb. 11: ‘Masked Singer’ narrowly tops ‘This Is Us’ (Variety)
- Friday ratings: FOX’s ‘Last Man Standing’ tops a night of reruns (Deadline)
- YES Network sold for $3.5B to Yankees, Amazon, Sinclair, private equity (Deadline)
- Murdoch’s new Fox is among suitors for Nexstar stations (Bloomberg)
- Fox Searchlight acquires Freddy Macdonald ‘Sew Torn’ short (Deadline)
- Nat Geo Doc Films embarks on Thai cave rescue project directed by Kevin Macdonald (The Hollywood Reporter)
- Fox’s Indian streamer Hotstar set to remake ‘The Office,’ ‘Criminal Justice’ (The Hollywood Reporter)
- ‘American Crime Story’ producers option New Yorker writer’s ‘Say Nothing’ for FX (The Hollywood Reporter)
- FX grabs Don Winslow’s cartel novels to develop for TV (The Hollywood Reporter)
- Hotstar to introduce targeted ads during IPL 2019 (Livemint)
- MLS 2019 preview: FOX Sports aims to provide viewers with unique perspectives from the pitch (Sports Video Group)
- Hotstar’s Varun Narang on driving consumer engagement for IPL 2019 (IndianTelevision.com)
- FOX’s ‘The Orville’ flies into comics this July (The Hollywood Reporter)
- Marvel Strike Force generated $150 million in revenue in its first year (VentureBeat)
- Nat Geo, Indian Navy salute all women crew of INSV Tarini (Adgully)
- Expanding its regional presence, Star Sports launches a dedicated Bengali channel: SS1 Bangla (IndianTelevision.com)
Enjoy the weekend!
