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"Fox Entertainment chief Kevin Reilly has accused US TV network heads of having &amp;quot;our heads up our asses&amp;quot;. Reilly made his strong comments at the Hollywood Radio and TV Society&amp;#039;s State of Broadcast panel, according to Variety.  &amp;quot;We don&amp;#039;t spend enough time thinking of the consumer in the chain, we think about the audience in a clump,&amp;quot; he said.  &amp;quot;If you ask execs how they watch TV, they&amp;#039;re either not watching a particular product or they just watched five seasons on Netflix. So, why is [this exec] any different than anyone at home?&amp;quot; Reilly claimed that network bosses are &amp;quot;way too obsessed with one another and not with the consumer&amp;quot; and argued that networks should rethink how they schedule shows following a &amp;quot;massive shift&amp;quot; in viewers&amp;#039; behaviour with the advent of online streaming and DVRs. Earlier this year, Reilly defended the Fox network&amp;#039;s disappointing performance in this year&amp;#039;s Emmy nominations, with the broadcaster managing just 26 award nominations, substantially fewer than those of rival channels CBS (60), NBC (51) and ABC (48). &amp;quot;Seminal shows like House and 24 have cycled out,&amp;quot; he said in July. &amp;quot;Next year we will have some [more].&amp;quot; Reilly has also billed forthcoming Kevin Bacon Fox drama The Following as &amp;quot;the next 24&amp;quot;, praising the horror thriller&amp;#039;s &amp;quot;highly serialised&amp;quot; format. &amp;gt; Nigel Lythgoe slams Fox exec over American Idol comments "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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