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Disney TV’s Craig Erwich on Managing a ‘Potluck Dinner’ of Content, Lessons From the Strike and Why Hulu Is Hunting for Standup Comedy
Disney Television Group's Craig Erwich details the 'potluck dinner' of content that his units serve up on Variety's 'Strictly Business' podcast.
In a sit-down interview for the Variety podcast “ Strictly Business,” the television veteran compares the modern job of overseeing programming and production of shows for a spectrum of outlets — spanning broadcast (ABC), cable (Disney Channel, Freeform) and streaming (Disney+, Hulu) — as akin to throwing a giant “potluck dinner.” “It was one of the things that was a real point of pride that was celebrated kind of from the top of the company down last year, was ‘Golden Bachelor.’ It had been a long time in the making, but I think the [2023] strikes presented the perfect opportunity for us to launch it. Hopes for “The Golden Bachelorette”: Erwich is eager to see how the viewers react to the next iteration of thedating show, which bows Sept. 18 with 61-year-old private school administrator Joan Vassos at the center.
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