Fox Alternative Entertainment: Last News

Selome Hailu After being formed by celebrity chef Gordon Ramsay and Fox Entertainment in 2021, Studio Ramsay Global (SRG) has made its first key executive appointment. Cyrus Farrokh will serve as senior vice president heading up worldwide strategy and U.S. operations. Farrokh will work with Ramsay as well as Fox Alternative Entertainment (FAE) president Rob Wade and SRG’s chief creative officer Lisa Edwards to oversee business development and global growth strategy. He will be based in Los Angeles as he builds on the company’s first year of operations, which have included the launch of Fox’s “Next Level Chef as well as a new free ad-supported television channel on Fox’s Tubi, international format sales with ITV in the U.K. and the upcoming series “Gordon Ramsay’s Food Stars.”

EXCLUSIVE: Fox Entertainment CEO Rob Wade is realigning the company’s content and business operations into three groups, the Fox Television Network, Fox Entertainment Studios and sales arm Fox Entertainment Global.

EXCLUSIVE: Fox has picked up The Real Full Monty, a two-hour special inspired by the beloved 1997 film and based on the popular British unscripted format, in which celebrities strip to raise money for cancer charities.

Fox Entertainment Global, the nascent international distribution arm of the U.S. network, has struck a sales pact with Canadian company Neshama.

Jamie Foxx is hosting another game show for Fox.

Gordon Ramsay’s cooking up a double helping of Next Level Chef for Fox.

K.J. Yossman Fox Entertainment CEO Charlie Collier is set to give a keynote address at Mipcom Cannes in October.Mipcom is set to take place at the Palais des Festivals in the French seaside town from Oct.

Gordon Ramsay and gang are running the culinary gauntlet again.

Selome Hailu Fox Entertainment and Hulu announced a new program output deal allowing Hulu to stream all out-of-season episodes of several Fox unscripted and animated series.Unscripted series that will stream on Hulu under the deal include “The Masked Singer,” “Lego Masters,” “I Can See Your Voice,” “Name That Tune,” “The Masked Dancer,” “Gordon Ramsay’s 24 Hours to Hell and Back,” “MasterChef” and “MasterChef Junior.”“The Masked Singer,” “I Can See Your Voice,” “The Masked Dancer” and “Name That Tune” are produced by Fox Alternative Entertainment. “Gordon Ramsay’s 24 Hours to Hell and Back” is produced by Studio Ramsay Global, the recently formed production entity from Ramsay and Fox Entertainment.

Fox has high hopes for its multi-tiered cooking competition Next Level Chef and this includes a global rollout of the format.

EXCLUSIVE: Fox Entertainment has acquired MarVista Entertainment, the prolific independent studio which produces and distributes original movies for traditional and streaming networks worldwide. No one would comment but sources pegged the value of the deal at over $100 million.

Fox is ramping up its international formats credentials with a new $100M fund to find the next wave of unscripted formats for the global market.

Manori Ravindran International EditorThe hunt for hit international unscripted IP, à la “The Masked Singer,” continues apace.Fox Entertainment and in-house studio Fox Alternative Entertainment have launched an international unscripted format fund to find IP for the global marketplace.The fund will invest in and develop internationally originated unscripted concepts that range from reality-competition and variety series to dating and other genres. Both networks and platforms will be targeted by the fund, which will look for cost-effective programs.FAE will co-produce series selected by the fund with each series’ partner.

Darren Schillace has been promoted to President, Marketing for Fox Entertainment. Schillace, most recently EVP Marketing for the broadcast network, will continue to lead the network’s marketing team and will now also head marketing for Tubi, Fox Entertainment AVOD platform. He also is overseeing projects from Bento Box, Fox Alternative Entertainment and Blockchain Creative Labs.

Michael Schneider Variety Editor at LargeFox Entertainment has upped Darren Schillace to president of marketing, adding Tubi to his oversight along with the Fox network. Fox Entertainment CEO Charlie Collier made the announcement on Wednesday.Schillace was most recently executive vice president of marketing at Fox Entertainment.

Naman Ramachandran “The Masked Singer” producer Fox Alternative Entertainment (FAE) and Dublin-headquartered outfit BiggerStage will jointly produce variety competition series “The Big Deal” for Ireland’s Virgin Media Television.The series, presented by Vogue Williams, features celebrity judges including pop legend Boy George; comedian and actor Deirdre O’Kane; Aston Merrygold, formerly of boy band JLS and recent finalist on “The Masked Singer”; talent show favourites Jedward; and rising music star Lyra.After each act, the performers are offered a deal: they can either accept a cash buyout and leave the competition with a useful sum of money — or they can reject the offer and hope they’ve impressed the judges enough to progress through to

EXCLUSIVE: Fox’s upcoming reality competition series Domino Masters has tapped actress Danica McKellar, two-time NFL Pro Bowler and Super Bowl Champion Vernon Davis and professional chain reaction and domino artist Steven Price as judges.

Tubi, the Fox Corp.-owned free streaming video service, plans to launch a full slate of original programming in the fall, including content developed by Fox Entertainment. The streaming service plans to unveil its plans and make its pitch to advertisers at its newfronts presentation next week.