Dana Walden and Gary Newman are adding network chief to their collective résumés.
The move comes more than a month after Fox Broadcasting Chairman Kevin Reilly announced he'd be exiting a position he had held for seven years. Walden, who was widely suspected to get the gig in the days following Reilly's news, and her fellow 20th Century Fox TV chairman and CEO bring with them nearly 50 years of combined experience at the studio, during which time they have been intimately involved in such hits as The X-Files, Ally McBeal, 24, Family Guy and Glee. As part of the new arrangement, the pair will maintain oversight of the studio, too, and will report to Peter Rice.
The move comes more than a month after Fox Broadcasting Chairman Kevin Reilly announced he'd be exiting a position he had held for seven years. Walden, who was widely suspected to get the gig in the days following Reilly's news, and her fellow 20th Century Fox TV chairman and CEO bring with them nearly 50 years of combined experience at the studio, during which time they have been intimately involved in such hits as The X-Files, Ally McBeal, 24, Family Guy and Glee. As part of the new arrangement, the pair will maintain oversight of the studio, too, and will report to Peter Rice.
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This made me feel good about Reilly's replacements:
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(Still worried but hope everything turns out okay)
So does this mean FOX will be ordering a bunch of shows about cars? Oops, wrong guy. Nevermind.
ReplyDeleteThe fact that they opted to align the management of the studio with the network speaks wonders.
ReplyDeleteThis will lead to Fox becoming more international market/syndication-orientated.
FOX is playing the CBS game too, just like NBC and ABC.
ReplyDeleteThey're marching towards the tradicional way, no Reilly leftovers.
Well, i'll try to be optimistic. But it was Reilly, who wanted to renew Almost Human. And the network overruled him. It was also the network, that wanted case of the week, over serialized plots. And the network, which wanted the series episodes, shown out of order.
ReplyDeleteYep they litteraly killed that show :(
ReplyDeleteI think there is a chance that they will bring 24 for a season 10
ReplyDeleteYes it's annoying that people think they make every decision, that's just not how companies work. Reilly was freakin awesome, IMO. He had good taste and all the changes he was trying to implement were in an effort to make broadcast live up to what it could be. I hope FOX continues that but a part of me wonders if maybe someone didn't like the way he was trying to shake up the system and that's why he was fired.I guess we'll find out though.
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