The Business
Fox's Kevin Reilly Says No to Pilot Season; Runaway VFX Work
The Fox broadcast chair dares to change the TV business. VFX artists call for change of their own.
By Kim Masters • • 29m ListenFox's Chairman of Entertainment Kevin Reilly announces that TV's pilot season is dead -- at least for his network. He talks with Kim Masters about how he'll still have failure but he hopes to have more success. Plus, the new documentary Life After Pi looks at the harsh realities for California's visual effects workers.
Banner image: (L-R) Akiva Schaffer, writer (SNL), director and member of The Lonely Island; Kevin Reilly, Andy Samberg. Photo courtesy of Fox
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3 storiesHollywood News Banter
John Horn of the LA Times joins Kim Masters to discuss top entertainment news stories of the week.
Read the story8 minFox's Kevin Reilly
Kim Masters talks with Kevin Reilly, the entertainment chairman of Fox Broadcasting, who has made news recently by announcing plans to no longer do pilot season as usual. Instead, Fox will borrow the cable TV model -- order fewer episodes, develop them fully before putting them on the air and air them year-round.
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A year after the visual effects house Rhythm & Hues filed for bankruptcy and won an Oscar for Life of Pi, two filmmakers have made a documentary that tracks what happened. Life after Pi was made by Christina Lee Storm and Scott Lebrecht who both once worked for that VFX house (Lebrecht is still there).
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