Dana Walden has her eye on the future. Walden, the chairman of Disney Television Studios and ABC Entertainment, said that one of the reasons she stayed on following the Disney-21st Century Fox merger was because she wanted to be part of a company with great storytellers but also a vision of what is to come. [...]Comics’ “ultimate bastich” is coming to TV. NBCUniversal’s Syfy network said it would develop a new series featuring the DC Comics character Lobo with Warner Horizon Scripted Television.
Several of television’s top executives gathered at Variety‘s TV Summit to discuss the content arms race that’s being caused by the impending launch of new streaming platforms and the major disruptions happening in the industry as a result of the flurry of recent mega-mergers. After the Disney-Fox merger led to a slew of layoffs, NBC [...]CAA has elevated Jaime Feld and Ben Dey to co-heads of the agency’s television talent department.