it\'s getting worse...
Reports: Berman exits Fox for Paramount
By David B. Wilkerson, MarketWatch
Last Update: 4:45 PM ET March 22, 2005
SAN FRANCISCO (MarketWatch) -- Gail Berman has resigned her post as president of entertainment at the Fox broadcast network to take a job at Viacom\'s Paramount Pictures, according to published reports Tuesday.
Berman, who took the Fox job in 2000, will become one of the first executives hired by new Paramount Chairman Brad Grey, Dow Jones Newswires and Broadcasting & Cable reported, citing unnamed sources.
A Fox spokesman declined comment. A Viacom spokesman was not immediately available.
Under Berman\'s guidance, Fox developed the hit drama "24," as well as the critically-acclaimed sitcom "Arrested Development."
Most recently, the network boasted of its first-ever February sweeps win in total households, while also garnering the most viewers among adults 18-49, 18-34 and 25-54. Its telecast of Super Bowl XXXIX and the strength of the reality program "American Idol" fueled Fox\'s victory.
http://tinyurl.com/4v8az Breaking! Gail Berman Quits Fox For Paramount
THR and Variety are reporting that Fox entertainment head Gail Berman has dumped Rupert Murdoch?s slice of television heaven for a movie job (?the top creative post?) underneath Brad Grey at the New Paramount?.
Whoa, didn?t see this one coming. Berman?s ditching Fox in the middle of pilot season, and God only knows what?s going to happen to Arrested Development now. Well, God and anyone whose first thought is that it?s probably toast.
And what happens to Paramount bigshot Donald DeLine? Is he toast as well? And will he be toasting himself or get toasted by Grey? Too many toast questions make our head hurt, so see the trade paper coverage for the fun, factual portion of the story, including info on Berman?s possible successors and the liberal use of the terms ?ankle? and ?prexy.?
so the biggest supporter of AD at FOX is now moving on...
like i said, enjoy AD while it lasts.
22 > 18.
fanfuckingtastic. rotfl
Howdy-Do Dat\'s ate it up
Nice link Dave.
This show is so dynamic it will be quite upsetting to hear that it will someday go off the air but hopefully not in it\'s prime. It is the glue which makes the Fox Sunday night lineup worth watching. I use to call it quits after the Simpsons but now its Simpsons>Arrested Development>Simpsons, such beauty!
You gotta lock that down!
Ann?s got a great deal of mass.
Babysit me!
The mere fact that you?re laughing about marriage means that you?re not ready, okay?
Take me to your secular world.
Well, this was before he saw you pounding that sweet piece of Veal.
?...to love and honor your spirit and flesh. First, the flesh. I will caress and tweak. I will nibble and bite. I will blow alternatingly hot and cool...?
looks like FOX has launched their own site to \'save\' AD...
http://www.getarrested.com/go there, and sign the \'oath\'... can\'t hurt..
Script Maeby\'s holding is Operation:Hot Mother. Oscar\'s constant hints of fatherhood. The use of Her? in a bunch of places. I love this show and made the pledge.
Whenever I get a wee bit scared I hum a little tune. Hum diddle-diddly. Hum dee do.
Why are we even going after this idiot demographic anyway? :thumbsup:
ah they\'re crooked!
after the drinking contest, disembodied voice"She\'s in REHAB!"
