Reality Schlockmeister New Fox Programming Chief

[Mark Jeffries]

Rob Wade, the former "Dancing With the Stars" showrunner (not the one who fired Tom Bergeron) and exec for BBC Studios, the Beeb's for-profit division, has been promoted by Fox from head of alternative and special programming to head of Fox Entertainment, replacing Charlie Collier, who is departing for Roku:

https://www.thewrap.com/rob-wade-ceo-fox-entertainment/?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=breaking_news_7096624

Wade's major accomplishment during his tenure was the success of "The Masked Singer," in which he took away US ownership from EndemolShine (the Banijay division that owns the rights to the show for the rest of the world) and for sleazy practices related to the show that showed on other Fox reality comps with audiences and game shows:  During the pandemic, when audiences were limited, he saw the use of a "virtual audience" screen tied into canned response that Fox Sports used on MLB games with no crowd and adapted it to "Masked" and other Fox shows--and then topped that by hiring actors fitting the key demos, bringing them into a studio after testing for COVID, and then staging reaction shots, many of them painfully obvious, and inserting them into the Fox shows (and they're still doing it on "The Masked Singer," even though the show's had audiences back for over a year).  When the pandemic became better but the cautions were still in place, Wade had two Fox game shows shoot in Australia and Ireland where the COVID restrictions were lighter (and then for the second season of the "Name That Tune" reboot host Jane Krakowski contracted COVID after one episode in the can, production had to be delayed, they lost the studio they were shooting in and had to find another facility in Dublin to finish the season).  What a guy.

[Kevin M.]

Maybe Fox could televise the process for choosing the head of programming… call it “The Biggest Scumbag” or “Who Wants To Be An A-Hole?” 

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[M-D November]

See also Darnell, Michael.

[Kevin M.]

On Fri, Oct 7, 2022 at 2:45 PM M-D November <mdnov...@gmail.com> wrote:

See also Darnell, Michael.

Not the very worst person I met in Hollywood, but easily in the top 5 

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