EXCLUSIVE: Fox is in the third-party business. The broadcast network’s production arm Fox Entertainment Studios has sold The Dogwood, a multi-camera comedy from Mom co-creator Gemma Baker, to ABC.
It marks another step in the evolution of Fox, which in March 2019 found itself as an independent network with no production capabilities following Disney’s acquisition of Fox assets, including TV studio 20th Century Fox Television. The network has since built such capabilities, organically and through acquisitions of MarVista Entertainment and animation house Bento Box.
Fox currently has fully owned series across drama (Best Medicine), live-action comedy (Animal Control) and animation (Krapopolis). It is now starting to sell shows elsewhere, too. (Subsidiary Bento Box is behind Prime Video’s animated series Hazbin Hotel, while Studio Ramsay Global, a joint venture between FES and Gordon Ramsay, has Apple TV’s Knife Edge: Chasing Michelin Stars and Netflix’s Being Gordon Ramsay.)
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