Let’s Make a Deal: Fox Entertainment is Open for International Business, Execs Tell Mipcom Crowd

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CANNES – The newly constituted senior entertainment team at Fox Corp. came to Mipcom this year with checkbooks in hand. The trio of executives who offered the keynote address Monday evening at the …

, Fox’s president of entertainment who focuses on scripted content and animation. The trio outlined their areas of focus for the company that was created in 2019 following the sale of 21st Century Fox to Disney.

The executive trio emphasized that Fox is looking for assets and projects that can generate a range of entertainment fare for the Fox broadcast network, the company’s Tubi ad-supported streamer and for Fox’s local TV stations. Recent acquisitions such as the TMZ TV and digital operation and Gordon Ramsay’s Studio Ramsay were designed to expand those brands with

Thorn emphasized that the new-model Fox has the benefit of having a big footprint in the TV eco-system – shows like “9-1-1” and “Lone Star: 9-1-1” still bring in more than 10 million people a week – but the ability to act like a boutique when it comes to launching new series. Wade, the former Fox alternative programming chief who was promoted last month after his predecessor, Charlie Collier, exited the company for a new role at Roku, stressed that one of the benefits of rebuilding a leaner media company over the past three years has been the ability to avoid the pitfalls of precedents, contract templates and internal studio obligations that complicate TV dealmaking.

 

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