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Disney TV’s Bold New Era: How Dana Walden Championed Shows Like ‘Only Murders’ and ‘The Dropout’

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Dana Walden knew she was part of a historic Hollywood moment when she drove onto the Disney lot the following day for the first time as an employee.

The executive, who is now chairman of entertainment for Walt Disney Television, knew she had an enormous job to integrate two studios — 20th Television and what was then ABC Studios — in addition to steering ABC Entertainment and adding Hulu Originals soon after she started.

And she knew she had to breathe new life into the young-adult-targeted Freeform at a time when linear basic cable channels face extinction.

Walden didn’t know that the world would be turned upside down by a global pandemic that would dramatically accelerate the streaming revolution Disney has banked so much on.

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