Maybe Fox could televise the process for choosing the head of programming… call it “The Biggest Scumbag” or “Who Wants To Be An A-Hole?”
On Fri, Oct 7, 2022 at 10:59 AM Mark Jeffries <[email protected]> wrote: > Rob Wade, the former "Dancing With the Stars" showrunner (not the one who > fired Tom Bergeron) and exec for BBC Studios, the Beeb's for-profit > division, has been promoted by Fox from head of alternative and special > programming to head of Fox Entertainment, replacing Charlie Collier, who is > departing for Roku: > > > https://www.thewrap.com/rob-wade-ceo-fox-entertainment/?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=breaking_news_7096624 > > Wade's major accomplishment during his tenure was the success of "The > Masked Singer," in which he took away US ownership from EndemolShine (the > Banijay division that owns the rights to the show for the rest of the > world) and for sleazy practices related to the show that showed on other > Fox reality comps with audiences and game shows: During the pandemic, when > audiences were limited, he saw the use of a "virtual audience" screen tied > into canned response that Fox Sports used on MLB games with no crowd and > adapted it to "Masked" and other Fox shows--and then topped that by hiring > actors fitting the key demos, bringing them into a studio after testing for > COVID, and then staging reaction shots, many of them painfully obvious, and > inserting them into the Fox shows (and they're still doing it on "The > Masked Singer," even though the show's had audiences back for over a > year). When the pandemic became better but the cautions were still in > place, Wade had two Fox game shows shoot in Australia and Ireland where the > COVID restrictions were lighter (and then for the second season of the > "Name That Tune" reboot host Jane Krakowski contracted COVID after one > episode in the can, production had to be delayed, they lost the studio they > were shooting in and had to find another facility in Dublin to finish the > season). What a guy. > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "TVorNotTV" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > To view this discussion on the web visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/tvornottv/3903e22f-c508-4d08-b97d-0dea669edbc7n%40googlegroups.com > <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/tvornottv/3903e22f-c508-4d08-b97d-0dea669edbc7n%40googlegroups.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> > . > -- Kevin M. (RPCV) -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TVorNotTV" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/tvornottv/CAKgmY4Ctme%2BfvRQCZ-XAigf6A-i4hF3NGCnaAiF_xWAZMfTiyQ%40mail.gmail.com.
