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EXCLUSIVE: Fox is now successful nan third-party business. The broadcast network’s accumulation limb Fox Entertainment Studios has sold The Dogwood, a multi-camera drama from Mom co-creator Gemma Baker, to ABC.
It marks different measurement successful nan improvement of Fox, which successful March 2019 recovered itself arsenic an independent web pinch nary accumulation capabilities pursuing Disney’s acquisition of Fox assets, including TV workplace 20th Century Fox Television. The web has since built specified capabilities, organically and done acquisitions of MarVista Entertainment and animation location Bento Box.
Fox presently has afloat owned bid crossed play (Best Medicine), live-action drama (Animal Control) and animation (Krapopolis). It is now starting to waste shows elsewhere, too.
While a return to multi-camera drama has been connected Fox’s database of programming goals (the network’s past introduction successful nan genre was Call Me Kat, which ended successful 2023), its existent drama slate is mostly male-driven, including live-action bid Animal Control and Going Dutch. That makes The Dogwood a amended fresh for nan female-skewing ABC, which besides remains successful nan multi-cam drama business; it has nan Tim Allen sitcom Shifting Gears.
Written by Baker, The Dogwood centers connected a workaholic mom who leaves her matrimony and quickly discovers she’s nan astir sterotypical divided dada anyone has ever met.
Baker co-created CBS’ Mom with Chuck Lorre and Eddie Gorodetsky. She roseate to executive shaper connected nan multi-camera drama and served arsenic co-showrunner pinch Nick Bakay connected nan past 3 seasons (6-8). Baker’s bid credits besides see CBS’ Two and a Half Men and, astir recently, NBC’s Happy’s Place. She is repped by UTA and Jackoway Austen Tyerman.
