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CW Bosses on Doing Original TV Movies, Landing WWE’s ‘NXT,’ and Potential New Sports Rights Deals
The CW president Dennis Miller and entertainment president Brad Schwartz have revealed the network will begin producing original movies
In addition to the broadcaster’s shifted focus to sports, unscripted fare and foreign imports/co-productions, The CW will soon be getting into the original TV movie business. The network is prepping a deal with an unnamed TV movie production company to handle the output, in addition to more installments of its “I Am…” series of bio docs (“I Am Steve McQueen,” “I Am Patrick Swayze”). We will soon but we didn’t need to rush it.” He also referenced the fact that the network just “spent millions of dollars” to add two more episodes to the current season of “All American.”
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