Households are facing the highest inflation rates for 40 years and the cost of living squeeze on already tightened budgets is expected to get even worse over the coming months.
03.05.2022 - 01:31 / deadline.com
More than two years into its run at Fox Corp., Tubi is ramping up in original programming, planning 100 new film and TV titles over the next year as viewership continues to rise.
The programming push was one of the central messages of the streaming service’s NewFronts presentation this evening in New York.
Since being acquired in 2020 for $440 million, the free, ad-supported streaming service has been increasingly integrated into Fox’s operations and has more than doubled its viewership. It offers streaming access after linear premiere for many of the top shows on the Fox broadcast network, including ratings kingpin The Masked Singer. It also is tapping into two corporate cousins for originals: TMZ and animated specialist Bento Box Entertainment. The new originals will join a library of more than 40,000 film and TV titles, which Tubi says is No. 1 among all free AVODs.
Among the new arrivals are a comedy called Classmates, directed by Danielle Fishel, who starred on Boy Meets World. Recent forays into horror, Black cinema and holiday fare are getting a new boost.
As Fox has previously reported, Tubi had 51 million active users at the end of 2021, with 3.6 billion hours of viewing. The streaming tally was up 40% over 2020 levels.
The growing population of regular Tubi viewers is unique, execs said in their pitch, 27% of Tubi viewers are unreachable via any other ad-supported video on demand [AVOD] service.
Demographics make Tubi “the perfect complement” to Fox’s linear networks, ad chief Marianne Gambelli said. About 40% of viewers are multi-cultural, and average viewers are more than 16 youngers than non-streamers.
Tubi is also expanding its linear offerings in the burgeoning category of free, ad-supported television, or FAST.
Households are facing the highest inflation rates for 40 years and the cost of living squeeze on already tightened budgets is expected to get even worse over the coming months.
Fox Corp. CEO Lachlan Murdoch said seven-time Super Bowl champion Tom Brady will be much more than a Sunday night analyst for Fox Sports but a partner after inking a deal said to be worth $375 million over ten years with the Tampa Bay Buccaneers quarterback.
Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer called on Rupert Murdoch and other top executives of Fox Corp. and Fox News to stop the “reckless amplification” of the “great replacement theory” by some of the news channel’s hosts.
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Fox has rolled out its 2022-2023 programming slate, giving its post- Super Bowl LVII slot to Gordon Ramsay’s “Next Level Chef,” and announcing several news shows for the broadcast network and Tubi. The network doesn’t yet have “9-1-1” and “The Resident” lined up, however, with renewal negotiations still in progress Monday.“We’re in good faith negotiations with 20th [Century Television] and based on our long history with that company we think we’re in pretty good shape,” Charlie Collier, CEO, Fox Entertainment, said on a conference call with reporters Monday.New shows coming to the network are the country music drama “Monarch,” starring Susan Sarandon, Trace Adkins and Anna Friel; crime anthology series “Accused,” from the producers of “Homeland and “House,” and “Alert,” a missing persons drama from Jamie Foxx and John Eisendrath.
Heinz has unveiled plans to create a brand new ketchup bottle made from paper, in hopes of becoming the first ever condiment brand to have completely renewable packaging.
fiscal second-quarter earnings conference call Wednesday afternoon, an investor asked CEO Bob Chapek what was holding the company back from expanding it as an all-in-one service. Chapek said that Disney is trying to preserve the “huge” cash flow generated by its linear networks before jumping into a direct to consumer (DTC) decision like that.“At the same time, we’re very conscious of our ability to go more aggressively into the [direct to consumer] area of ESPN,” said Chapek.
Breaking records on and off the field? Fox spoke out about the reported $375 million deal Tom Brady signed to become the network’s lead NFL analyst once he retires from football for good.
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Continuing the fight. After a jury ruled in favor of the Kardashian-Jenner family, Blac Chyna (real name Angela White) and her legal team announced plans to appeal the verdict in her defamation trial against former fiancé Rob Kardashian‘s family.
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Bring Me The Horizon have revealed that they’ve recorded “about 45 songs” for their next release.The band’s last project was their ‘Post Human: Survival Horror’ EP, released back in October 2020.The first of several releases, frontman Oli Sykes told NME last year they were “working on parts two, three and four simultaneously” and that they were hoping to “get songs out as soon as we can”.The Sheffield rock giants then gave fans a taste of what they can expect from ‘Post Human 2’, sharing new single ‘DiE4u’ in September 2021.Speaking in a new interview, Sykes has now shared an update on the record as well as their forthcoming schedule.“We’re doing lots of gigs hopefully, if the world goes alright,” he told BANG Showbiz (via Contact Music). “Lots of European festivals and we’re going to the States in September.
Happy Endings was only on the air for three seasons, but Elisha Cuthbert is thankful that the sitcom even reached that milestone.
Fox Corp.’s free, ad-supported streaming service Tubi is working on an expansion of its current arrangement with Nielsen that will enlarge the scope of where its viewership is measured.
Sega has confirmed that there are no plans for Sonic Origins to receive a physical release.Taking part in the latest official Sonic Livestream, Sega Of America’s social media manager, Katie Chrzanowski responded to a question about a physical release for Sonic Origins. “There isn’t one planned at the moment,” she said.“I have seen a lot of comments asking for one, so the team has been made aware of that, there is a want for a physical release,” she added.Sonic Mania was released digitally in 2017 to mark Sonic The Hedgehog’s 25th anniversary and was followed up by Sonic Mania Plus the following year.
Comedian Sebastian Maniscalco hosted the presentation, combining the sneak previews with a standup routine in which he joked that the upcoming “Expendables 4,” Sylvester Stallone, Jason Statham and 50 Cent, would be “more violent than Will Smith in a comedy club.” Maniscalco also showed his own upcoming comedy “About My Father,” which he co-wrote and based on his own relationship with his Italian immigrant father. He was joined onstage by Robert De Niro, who plays Maniscalco’s father, as well as co-stars Leslie Bibb and Kim Cattrall.
i news on Wednesday in which she wrote, “The competition for eyeballs is fiercer than ever – and we’ve got to ensure British broadcasters can hold their own in this fight.”She notes that the rise of “American streaming giants” over the last year has left linear channels such as the BBC and ITV with 20% less viewers. Her office has published a broadcasting white paper that would impose content regulations on U.S.
Megan Fox is sharing her thoughts on motherhood.