‘Am I Going to Have to Put Mickey Mouse in “American Horror Story”?’<br />Mr. Murphy, the creator of hit shows like “American Horror Story,” “Glee”<br />and “Feud: Bette and Joan,” has a deal with Fox’s television studio, which produces shows for the Fox broadcast network, FX and other channels.<br />But if regulators approve the deal — which Mr. Newman said he expected to happen — it will disrupt the television industry, consolidating key properties within the Disney fold<br />and potentially sending important producers and executives running for the gates.<br />While Fox’s TV studio would become a Disney property, the broadcast network would join the<br />Murdoch-controlled company New Fox, which would also include Fox Sports and Fox News<br />On Thursday, at a Television Critics Association news media event, top Fox executives tried to emphasize<br />that it would be “business as usual” — at least over the next year — at both the TV studio and the broadcast network.<br />One of Fox’s most prolific hitmakers, Ryan Murphy, said he was “very emotional”<br />and weighing whether he would stick around when his deal with the studio ended later this year.<br />Mr. Murphy has only rarely taken on projects outside Fox, though he did reach a deal with Netflix last year to make a series about Nurse<br />Ratched, the character from “One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest.” Netflix has said it will spend up to $8 billion in content this year.<br />PASADENA, Calif. — A top Fox TV executive said she was “shocked” when the deal between 21st Century Fox and the Walt Disney Company was announced.
