Francie Calfo

Former ABC & Verizon exec to lead Imagine

Ex-ABC comedy chief and Verizon mobile content boss Samie Kim Falvey has joined Ron Howard’s Imagine Television as president. She will report to Francie Calfo, who has been promoted from president to chairman in recent days. Falvey was most recently in charge of programming, development and production at M4, the proposed mobile video service US […]

Shots Fired at Fox

US broadcaster Fox has ordered an event drama that looks into the dangerous aftermath of racially-charged police shooting in the American South. Shots Fired comes from Beyond the Lights pair Gina Prince-Bythewood and Reggie Rock Bythewood, and will debut in 2016. Undisputed Cinema and Imagine Television are coproducing in association with 20th Century Fox Television. […]

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