Nearly a year after Disney's $71.3 billion Fox acquisition closed, ABC Studios and 20th Century Fox Television — part of the Disney Television Studios collective — are making a major shift in priorities
Nearly a year after Disney's $71.3 billion Fox acquisition closed, ABC Studios and 20th Century Fox Television — part of the Disney Television Studios collective — are making a major shift in priorities. in his then-newly created role as Disney TV Studios president — the mega-studio is pivoting away from broadcast as its top priority. The biggest proof of the change? The current pilot season. ABC Studios and 20th TV have a 13 sales between them.
Sources say the shift away from broadcast is part of a larger mandate for ABC Studios and 20th TV as both expand to focus first on being a content supplier to Disney's growing number of platforms. Those include streamers Disney+ and Hulu as well as ABC, younger-skewing basic cable network Freeform, recently acquired FX and NatGeo. While the new priority is to supply to in-house outlets, Disney TV Studios will continue to sell to outside networks, streamers, and, yes, broadcasters.
It's also worth noting that part of the overall declines is the fact that the broadcast networks are collectively ordering fewer pilots. This year, the five networks have picked up 56 pilots so far — down 10 year-over-year from 2019's 10-year low — as both Disney’s ABC and independent broadcaster Fox Entertainment are expanding beyond the traditional January-May pilot season.
The "second cycle" move also illustrates that broadcast pilot season is no longer the center of the TV season as it has long been. While broadcast networks are beginning to open up to year-round development, basic and premium cable networks — and streamers, most notably — have been doing so for years . What's more, the Disney strategy arrives as broadcast hits aren't the home runs that they used to be when studios could cash in with lucrative syndication deals.
With six platforms to supply, Disney TV Studios has bulked up with writer-producers who are focused on multiple platforms and not exclusively broadcast. Case in point: Dan Fogelman — creator of the No. 1 scripted drama on broadcast with
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