In an era of diminishing backend amidst the proliferation of streaming, Fox Entertainment is looking to use the advantages of the traditional broadcast model to attract high-level talent without an affiliated studio
In an era of diminishing backend amidst the proliferation of streaming, Fox Entertainment, a rare company built solely around a linear broadcast network, is looking to use the advantages of the traditional broadcast model to attract high-level talent without an affiliated studio.
“I really want to share what we think will prove to be a greater and greater competitive advantage for Fox,” Fox Entertainment CEO Charlie Collier said during the network’s executive session. “At a time when the industry’s-undergoing significant change — and you’ve written about all these cost plus and front-loaded mega-deals , we at Fox Entertainment still believe in creating and sharing-with-our-talent the holy grail of television — the backend.
Many of the recent string of mega-deals Collier is referring to do include the studios effectively buying out/advancing against a creator’s backend on their existing series for the studio., Amazon Studios has been employing a “per-point” model, which Disney TV Studios, FX Prods. and Warner Bros. TV also have been eying. Each point of an upcoming series’ backend is assigned a numerical value that is uniform across the portfolio of shows.
With both cost-plus and per-point models, they are expected to benefit middling/mildly successful series that go on for a couple of seasons to respectable/modest ratings but would cap the financial windfall for profit participants on blockbuster hits like
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