While that is no match for Netflix, the company has seen growth in each of the last two quarters. With the old Hollywood model disrupted, or perhaps broken, Disney, Fox, CBS, Viacom and Time Warner have moved to gain scale in their efforts to compete against the deep-pocketed upstarts. Photo“Were the Disney deal to have never happened, I think he would have been close to a new deal with us,” said Ms. Walden, the Fox executive who has worked closely with Mr. Murphy. And it helps that Mr. Murphy has become a Netflix obsessive in his own right. “All Ryan has watched for the last year has been Netflix,” said Ms. Walden, who is the godmother to Mr. Murphy’s children.

Source: New York Times February 15, 2018 00:45 UTC