By Nellie Andreeva
20.01.2020 - 17:31 / variety.com
Fox Television Stations has ordered the weekly entertainment news magazine “Central Ave,” which hails from prolific film and TV producer Will Packer and Lionsgate’s Debmar-Mercury.
Debmar-Mercury and Will Packer Media will produce two half-hour shows per week of “Central Ave,” which tackles pop culture and other topics from a “socially conscious and diverse lens,” per Debmar. The show is hosted by former BET personality Julissa Bermudez and Olympic track star Sanya Richards-Ross.
“Central Ave”
By Nellie Andreeva
Fox Corp., led by CEO and executive chairman Lachlan Murdoch, on Wednesday reported sharply higher second-quarter earnings on valuation changes and higher advertising revenue.Fox — which, after Rupert Murdoch agreed to sell most of 21st Century Fox to Walt Disney for $71 billion, became a stand-alone company mostly focused on news and sports — reported net income of $314 million for the latest quarter, or 48 cents per share, compared with $24 million in the year-ago period, or 1 cents a
Higher sports rights fees and the cost of launching WWE’s “Smackdown” took a bite out of Fox Corp.’s earnings in the last lap of 2019.
By Jill Goldsmith
Fox Entertainment has named Allison Wallach to the newly created position of executive vice president of Fox Alternative Entertainment, Fox Entertainment’s recently formed in-house unscripted studio.
An 'owl cafe' is opening in Abu Dhabi, it has been announced, with live owls being present in the venue for guests to pet and interact with.
Roku and Fox Corp. announced that they reached a deal to keep Fox’s channels on the device maker’s platform, an 11th-hour agreement that means Fox apps will be available for streaming Sunday’s Super Bowl.
Roku, less than three days before Super Bowl LIV is set to air on Fox, has removed all Fox Corp. channels from the Roku Channel Store — a move the broadcaster called a “poorly timed negotiating ploy.”
After the first reports surfaced on Sunday about the fatal helicopter crash that killed Kobe Bryant, his 13-year-old daughter Gianna and seven other people, rumors floated around on Twitter that fellow retired NBA star and former Lakers teammate Rick Fox was also among the victims.
Basketball player turned actor Rick Fox’s family were left shaken after it was reported that he’d been killed in the same helicopter crash that claimed the lives of Kobe Bryant and his daughter.
Rick Fox spoke out for the first time since false reports that he died in the helicopter crash that killed Kobe Bryant and eight other people on Sunday, January 26.
In the first reports about the tragic deaths of Kobe Bryant, 41, daughter Gianna Bryant, 13, and 7 others, it was rumored that Kobe’s Los Angeles Lakers teammate Rick Fox, 50, had died in the crash as well. That horrible rumor turned out not to be true and Rick broke his silence about the terrible situation on TNT’s Inside the NBA on Jan.
Rick Fox is opening up about the tragic death of Kobe Bryant, and how rumors and inaccurate reports claiming he was in the fatal helicopter crash as well terrified his family.
By Nellie Andreeva
Nearly four years after his death, Prince was honored Sunday night with a special all-star performance at the 62nd Grammy Awards that left some viewers scratching their heads.