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651: 944: 266:(ADHD), the 90-minute programming block would be filled with 15-minute shows broken up by shorter bits. Fox built a 12,500-square-foot, 120-person, animation studio, ADHD Studios, with Weidenfeld at its head, and he founded his own production company, Friends Night, to license content to the network. Aiming for comedy that would appeal to an audience younger than himself, he tried to hire only young candidates who had never paid to watch television. 31: 201:
The position would entail shepherding projects from greenlighting to air. Adult Swim was a small operation at the time. Weidenfeld's first responsibility was to find talent, particularly developers outside the traditional animation pipelines, who could help the company grow beyond animation into live
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ADHD premiered in July 2013. Fox took the underperforming experiment off the air in June 2014 because it failed to reach the target audience and upset too many of the network's older viewers. Two ADHD series were moved to primetime, while others continued on digital platforms, before they shifted to
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In June 2008, he married Amantha Starr Walden, a music executive at Adult Swim and daughter of the late record label executive
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block of programming. The two got along well. Lazzo wasn't familiar with Weidenfeld's satirical
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tapped Weidenfeld to lead the network's foray into late-night Saturday animation. Dubbed
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Weidenfeld was hired in April 2016 as the president of programming for
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action. In seven years there, Weidenfeld developed, among others,
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in the late 1990s, and reviewed music for magazines
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Washington, D.C.
Cartoon Network
Adult Swim
Fox
Animation Domination High-Def
programming blocks
Emmy Awards
Childrens Hospital
Viceland
Edward Weidenfeld
Sheila Rabb Weidenfeld
Betty Ford
Georgetown
Georgetown Day School
Seventeen
Teen Vogue
Columbia University
the Pentagon
Mike Lazzo
Cartoon Network
Esquire
Adult Swim
Robot Chicken
Peabody Award
The Boondocks
Delocated
Childrens Hospital
12 oz. Mouse
Emmy Awards

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