Twentieth Century Fox Television Distribution


Fox ups distribution exec

Scott Gregg has been promoted at Twentieth Century Fox Television Distribution. He has been upped to executive VP, sales operations, at the studio. Based in LA, Gregg will manage all aspects of the support effort for the sales team and take greater control of the international sales offices operations. An eighteen-year Fox veteran, Gregg has […]

UKTV buys Gillian Anderson drama from Fox

UKTV has acquired Crisis, the new US drama series starring Gillian Andersen. The series, which is distributed by Twentieth Century Fox Television Distribution, follows the abduction of the president’s son and the children of other important figures. Anderson plays Meg Fitch, the CEO of a conglomerate, whose daughter is part of the mass abduction In […]

Comedy Central UK, Fox make Friends with Better Lives deal

Viacom’s Comedy Central channel in the UK has inked an exclusive two-season deal for upcoming US series Friends with Better Lives. The comedy, which will bow on US broadcast network CBS next week, stars James Van Der Beek and Kevin Connolly and revolves around a group of friends who are outwardly happy but secretly questioning […]

Netflix extends UK deal with Fox

Netflix in the UK and Ireland has acquired Homeland and American Horror Story from Fox, extending an existing programming agreement between the pair. The deal with the Hollywood studio’s TV sales arm, Twentieth Century Fox Television Distribution, give Netflix two seasons of espionage drama Homeland and also the first two runs of horror anthology series […]

Fox’s Finney handed SVOD promotion

Twentieth Century Fox Television Distribution’s Kristen Finney has been promoted to senior VP, worldwide pay television and subscription on-demand. In the new role, Finney (pictured) will focus on expanding the US studio’s global SVOD business, while continuing to oversee pay TV and SVOD deals in the UK, Germany, Italy, Asia, India and Australia and across […]

Fox Intn’l poaches Warner Bros veteran Robinson

The distribution arm of 21st Century Fox has recruited Matthew Robinson for a senior sales role. Robinson will be senior VP, International Television at Twentieth Century Fox Television Distribution. He joins from rival studio Warner Bros. where he worked for 16 years, most recently he was Vp, international sales planning. Prior to his long stint […]

Who gets grounded by Fox’s pilots dismissal?

Will Kevin Reilly’s decision to pull broadcast network Fox out of the pilots development business have knock-on effects for the international buying community? Jesse Whittock looks at how the landscape is changing and identifies why it might not be such a landmark moment. At the TCAs six years ago, Jeff Zucker stood before journalists and […]

UK’s Sky clocks on for new 24

UK satcaster BSkyB has acquired Fox’s upcoming miniseries thriller, 24: Live Another Day. Sky has scored the deal with Twentieth Century Fox Television Distribution, and the Kiefer Sutherland-fronted reboot will launch in the UK at an unspecified date on Sky 1 HD. The 12-episode show, from Teakwood Lane Productions in association with Twentieth Century Fox […]

Starz, Fox in major multi-year film licensing deal

Starz has secured a massive multi-year deal for hundreds of movies from Twentieth Century Fox Television Distribution’s library. The agreement is billed as “the largest ever between the two companies,” with about 40% never seen before on the US premium cable channel. Films including Ice Age, X-Men and There’s Something About Mary will run on […]

2013 LA Screenings in review

As the sun sets on the studio lots and the myriad of international buyers head home after this year’s LA Screenings, the real business is just beginning. For those channels not tied into long term output deals with certain studios, the bidding wars for the best of the US are already underway. And though there […]