FX gets Mac rights

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FX has picked up the cable rights to Fox’s The Bernie Mac Show
starting in 2008.

Bernie Mac will appear on FX after a three-year run in off-net broadcast
syndication.

FX is paying $235,000 per half-hour episode, according to reports -- a
relatively modest sum compared to more than $500,000 per episode
for Fox’s Malcolm in the Middle.

Bernie Mac has been cleared in 75% of the United States for its 2005 broadcast-syndication launch.

It has won the Peabody Award, as well as an Emmy Award for writing, the Prism
Award, the Humanitas Award and the NAACP Award.

The show is produced by Regency Television in association with Fox Television
Studios and Twentieth Century Fox Television.

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.