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Disney Entertainment Television Lays Off 140, National Geographic Heavily Impacted
Layoffs are underway at Disney Entertainment Television today. Roughly 140 people are impacted, representing about 2% of the total workforce.
Not surprisingly, Disney’s linear networks are taking the brunt of the staffing cuts, particularly those that do not provide the company’s streaming platforms with highly popular originals like FX’s Shōgun or ABC’s Grey’s Anatomy that drive viewership and subscriptions. Today’s cuts come on the heels of Disney recently netting 183 Emmy nominations for its shows, with some of the top awards performers originating on linear, including FX’s Shōgun and Fargo and ABC’s Abbott Elementary. Once a leading brand of YA programming with such hits as The Secret Life Of the American Teenager and Pretty Little Liars — and more recently The Fosters and grown-ish — Freeform, one of the Disney linear networks dropped by Spectrum, has pulled away from scripted series, which have been streaming on Hulu, in favor of more modestly priced unscripted fare.
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