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Kevin Reilly In At Fox, Where He’s Now Sworn To Wipe NBC’s Class From The Face of the Earth

7:10AM Defamer Hollywood | It’s official: the much-rumoured-about Fox reunion of former FX pals Peter Liguori and recent NBC Memorial Day Massacre victim Kevin Reilly (pictured above slipping his business card to Liguori at a luncheon two years ago, knowing he’d one day have to hit up his old boss for a job) has come to pass, with Reilly, as expected, taking over the crucial programming responsibility of shouting at panicked underlings, “I don’t care how the fuck we do it, but I want American Idol on every night from now until the Earth hurtles into the sun!” Variety notes the irony that Fox’s new hire will now have the opportunity to turn the power of that aforementioned Nielsen Death Star against the schedule he meticulously crafted for NBC shortly before his ouster, watching through bittersweet tears as each crass Idol installment wipes out his classy primetime children one by one. [Photo: Getty Images] Fox names Reilly president [Variety] More »

Report: Kevin Reilly Already In Talks To Class Up Fox

7:00AM Defamer Hollywood | Even as NBC cleaners continue to scrub away at stubborn blood stains and collect overlooked skull fragments left over from the Memorial Day Massacre that enabled rock-star Ben Silverman’s ascendance at the Peacock, freshly whacked president Kevin Reilly is reportedly in talks to reunite with former FX boss Peter Liguori at Fox, an attempt to recapture the magic of a previous collaboration which, in the words of Variety, elevated the then-obscure channel “to a basic-cable equivalent of HBO with cutting-edge fare.” More »

US upfronts: Fox To Try And Prove Their Programming Executives Are Smarter Than A Fifth Grader

5:31AM Defamer Hollywood | It’s Day Four of the upfronts, that special mid-May week during which network executives lure advertisers to fancy venues, use elaborate presentations about their Fall programming to trick the media buyers into believing that spending their money on unproven shows is any less risky than letting their entire budgets ride on a single roulette-wheel number, and then retire to after-parties to toast their mutual delusions with free booze. Today, Fox wraps up the festivities with the announcement of their slate of new shows, coyly refusing for a fifth straight year to abandon their largely useless development process and switch to a year-round, all-American Idol format. More »