Deadline says:
Fox’s Audience Strategy division, the successor of the network’s diversity department, is launching a new writers program, the Fox Writer’s Intensive. Unlike existing diversity writers programs at TV networks and studios designed to help young minority writers get an entry into the industry, Fox’s initiative targets more experienced writers and is not limited to minorities but open to any scribes with diverse backgrounds — LGBT, foreign-born, etc. (For newcomers, there will be a separate, entry-level Fox writers program in the fall of 2012). Per the network, the initiative “is designed to nurture experienced writers with diverse voices, backgrounds and life experiences and create a strong pipeline of well-rounded talent for potential staffing as writers, story editors or showrunners on Fox productions.”
One of the only things holding Fox back from bringing back the cult-classic "Firefly" is trying to figure out how to 'reinvent it for today'.
These people will never learn until we really hurt their pockets and in some case they dont even seem to care to lose money.
Let me start this off by saying that this definitely is not happening. But instead that you, dear reader, should treat this post as a “What if…?” scenario.
The effects of the Disney-Fox merger will have consequences that'll be visible in the immediate future. Here's the immediate effects of the historic merger.
