Author: Michael O’Connell / Source: The Hollywood Reporter
Fox TV Group chairmen and CEOs Dana Walden and Gary Newman keep facing a lot questions they can’t really answer — but, during a Thursday morning visit with press at the Television Critics Association’s summer press tour, the duo came armed with plenty of details about “New Fox” to appease a crowd that was never going to hear much about that pending Disney deal.
“What makes New Fox new?” Walden said, referencing a term that first popped up around the network’s May upfront presentation. “It will be the only network to operate with complete independence and no studio agenda. … It’s an opportunity to get vibrant indie studio series on TV.”
Opening up Fox development and buying beyond longtime sister studio 20th Century Fox TV was the focus of Walden’s spiel, and it seemed to push the Walt Disney Company’s pending acquisition of Fox’s entertainment properties (i.e. everything but the network) out of the discussion. “Not since my kids were little have I been asked so much about going to Disney,” joked the exec, before noting that she could not discuss odds of management structures once Fox’s entertainment assets (i.e. not the network) are absorbed by the company or about where she and Newman will land. That’s not to say there hasn’t been some clarity on that front. Walden and Newman each signed one-year contract extensions at the broadcast…
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