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Can John Landgraf’s Slow TV Model Survive?

The oracle of Peak TV is at an inflection point as Disney+ absorbs Hulu and the chase for prestige gives way to the tonnage model.

John Landgraf
Speculation that Landgraf might be moving slowly toward an exit is contradicted by FX sources, who say he’s in the early phase of a “multiyear” contract. Photo: Frederick M. Brown/Getty Images
Kim Masters
January 13, 2026

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Back in 2020, when television executives still regularly, and often very helpfully, took questions from the press at gatherings of the Television Critics Association, FX Networks chairman John Landgraf told the room that his network’s brand had “hit a ceiling” on basic cable. Integrating with Hulu, and adding some 30 million new homes, he said, would “make the FX brand actually more valuable, really, because I think it’s going to penetrate more deeply into American culture.”