Fox Assumes Mouse's Alias

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ABC's Alias has found a home in broadcast syndication. Fox's 35 TV stations are picking up the show in an all-barter deal for weekends in fall 2005.

"Alias is a natural fit for the Fox audience with its great action and A-list cast, led by Jennifer Garner and Michael Vartan," said John Bryan, Buena Vista Television's executive vice president of sales. BVT also has sold Alias as a strip to TNT for around $200,000 an episode, also starting in fall 2005.

Alias is produced by Touchstone Television. J. J. Abrams created and executive produces the show, along with John Eisendrath, Ken Olin, Alex Kurtzman-Counter and Bob Orci.

Paige Albiniak
Paige Albiniak

Contributing editor Paige Albiniak has been covering the business of television for more than 25 years. She is a longtime contributor to Next TV, Broadcasting + Cable and Multichannel News. She concurrently serves as editorial director for The Global Entertainment Marketing Academy of Arts & Sciences (G.E.M.A.). She has written for such publications as TVNewsCheck, The New York Post, Variety, CBS Watch and more. Albiniak was B+C’s Los Angeles bureau chief from September 2002 to 2004, and an associate editor covering Congress and lobbying for the magazine in Washington, D.C., from January 1997 - September 2002.