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33
Fox Home Entertainment
Consumers have more choice
than ever before in deciding how,
where and when to experience
our programming. Fox Home
Entertainment (FHE) produces and
distributes not just DVDs and the
high-denition industry standard
Blu-ray, but also distributes
entertainment products through
services such as pay-per-view,
video-on-demand and electronic
sell-through services, reaping
impressive revenues.
FHE saw early success with
its digital copy initiative: fully
formatted les that can easily be
transferred from the purchased
disc to portable devices, offering
consumers a single purchase
multi-use entertainment
proposition.
In 2008, FHE released or re-
released more than 850 produced
and acquired titles in the U.S. and
almost 800 film and television
titles in international markets.
Bestselling new films included
hits from our own studios, Alvin
and the Chipmunks, Live Free or
Die Hard, The Simpsons Movie and
Juno. Treasured entertainment
released by FHE from its legendary
lm and television libraries include
the top box-office grossing film
of all time, Titanic, as well as
The Sound of Music, Star Wars
and The Mary Tyler Moore Show.
Twentieth Century
Fox Television
TCFTV produces entertainment
for our own FOX Broadcasting
Company, as well as the three
other major U.S. broadcast networks
and several cable networks. We had
more than 20 shows on the air last
year, including our longstanding
and irreverent animated show The
Simpsons, which will enter its 20th
season of production in calendar
2008, making it the longest running
primetime comedy of all time.
TCFTV also completed production
on an exciting two-hour television
event: the 24 prequel, which was
shot on location in South Africa and
will air this coming fall on FOX.
TCFTV made a new, long-term deal
with Family Guy and American Dad
creator Seth MacFarlane, ensuring
his continued producing and
acting services on both of these
lucrative franchises, as well as
the development of new series for
television.
Several TCFTV comedies and
dramas, including American Dad,
Prison Break, Bones, My Name is
Earl, The Unit and How I Met Your
Mother (the latter three produced
for other networks), will return to
network television for their fourth
seasons, further positioning each
of these series for success in the
domestic cable and syndication
markets.
Twentieth Television
In 2008, Twentieth Television
continued to serve as a model for
television syndication, successfully
launching several high profile
shows and further stocking a full
pipeline that will allow Twentieth
Television to be at the forefront of
content production and distribution
for many years to come.
Twentieth Television distributed
rst-run programming in 2008,
including the syndicated show
Divorce Court, which increased its
market share to become the third-
ranked syndicated court show in
the U.S. Judge Alex and Cristina’s
Court remained the fifth and
eighth-ranked syndicated court
shows in the U.S. respectively.
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