Dana Walden


The Simpsons breaks record for most episodes

The Simpsons has been renewed for 29th and 30th seasons – overtaking Gunsmoke as the long-running scripted series in the US by number of episodes. Gunsmoke ran for 635 eps between 1955 and 1975, but the two new seasons of animated Fox comedy The Simpsons will bring its total to 669. In an announcement made […]

Fox now streaming primetime to subs

Fox Broadcasting has begun simulcasting its primetime programming via the Fox.com and Fox Now platforms. This makes Fox the first American broadcast network to offer its key programmes as a live-streamed service for its pay TV customers around the US, and stamps former Sky Deutschland chief Brian Sullivan’s mark on Fox’s digital strategy. The streams, […]

Fox order Seth MacFarlane comedy drama

US broadcaster Fox has ordered a 13-episode live-action comedy-drama from Family Guy creator Seth MacFarlane. The series, currently untitled, is set for the 2017-18 season and will be set 300 years in the future following the motley crew of a “not-so-top-of-the-line exploratory ship in Earth’s interstellar fleet”. 20th Century Fox Television will produce, with MacFarlane […]

Fox burying Bones

Fox has ordered a new season of Bones, which the network said will be the last of the long-running procedural. The twelfth and final run of the show will take the number of episodes in Bones to 246, making it one of Fox’s longest-running series ever. “In times like these, marked by instability and doubt, […]

Earley exits Fox

Fox Television Group’s long-serving COO, Joe Earley, is leaving the 21st Century Fox-owned broadcaster after more than two decades. Earley (pictured) will leave the firm at the end of the year, bringing to an end 21 years of service. He has held his current post since August 2014, working under Fox TV Group co-chairmen and […]

Fox confirms Prison Break ‘sequel’

US broadcaster network Fox has confirmed it is bringing back conspiracy drama Prison Break as a limited series. Announcing the news at the Television Critics Association tour yesterday Fox Television Group co-CEO and chairman Dana Walden said the show would be a “bit of a sequel”. The original series ran for four seasons between 2005 […]

Fox ties down Empire builder

Twentieth Century Fox Television has secured the exclusive services of Empire co-creator Lee Daniels. Daniels has entered into a multiyear deal with TCFT, continuing with his executive producer duties on broadcast drama ratings hit Empire. He will also be developing, writing, directing and supervising new projects for the Fox network under his Lee Daniels Entertainment […]

Fox bosses to receive MIPCOM honour

Fox Television co-CEOs Dana Walden and Gary Newman will be the 2015 MIPCOM personalities of the year, and both will be in Cannes in October to receive the honour. The award has been handed out since 1989, but never been issued jointly before. It is given at a gala dinner on the Wednesday of the […]

Fox reopens X-Files

Agents Mulder and Scully are headed back to US broadcast TV after 13 years. Fox has commissioned a six-part reprisal of The X-Files, which will go into production this summer ahead of a currently undefined debut date as an event series. The original X-Files launched in 1993 and ran for nine seasons. It followed David […]

Andreae out at Fox, Electus’ Henson in

Simon Andreae’s spell at the top of US broadcast network Fox’s reality arm is over, with Electus executive Corie Henson tapped to replace him. Andreae (pictured) had been in the role of executive VP, alternative programming for a year. Henson (below, right) has been with Ben Silverman’s Electus for a similar period of time after […]