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The second season of Fox Nation\u2019s The<\/em> Saints<\/em> premiered Monday night at an exclusive midtown hotel screening that felt, unmistakably, like a Fox News victory lap. Academy Award\u2013winner Martin Scorsese<\/strong> \u2014 the creative force behind the series \u2014 took questions afterward, lending the night a level of cultural prestige rarely associated with a cable-news streamer.<\/p>\n For the uninitiated, The Saints<\/em> is Scorsese\u2019s docudrama chronicling the lives of canonized figures whose mythologies often overshadow the real events that defined their faith. Hosted, narrated, and executive-produced by Scorsese, the series aims to strip away legend and illuminate the human drama underlying sainthood. It\u2019s a big-budget program shot on location overseas. No one will mistake it for Game of Thrones<\/em>, but for streaming platform content? It\u2019s beyond next-level.<\/p>\n The evening opened with remarks from Chief Digital Officer & Chief Marketing Officer Jason Klarman<\/strong>,\u00a0followed by screenings of the season\u2019s first and final episodes. Scorsese and his daughter, Francesca Scorsese<\/strong> \u2014 director of the finale \u2014 then took the stage for a Q&A.<\/p>\n A sizable roster of Fox News talent turned out \u2014 Bill Hemmer<\/strong>, Sandra Smith<\/strong>, Harris Faulkner, Kayleigh McEnany<\/strong> \u2014 alongside senior executives, President & Executive Editor, Fox News Media Jay Wallace<\/strong>, President & Editor-in-Chief of Fox News Digital. Porter Berry<\/strong>, and Fox Nation<\/a> president Lauren Petterson<\/strong>. Afterward, cocktails and hors d\u2019oeuvres set a celebratory tone. And why not? By nearly every measurable standard, Fox News is having a moment.<\/p>\n Look at the scoreboard: while competitors scramble to reinvent themselves, Fox News is coming up aces \u2014 or, in this case, Scorseses.<\/p>\n Over the summer, Fox News\u2019 primetime slate was the highest-rated<\/a> block on all of television, beating even the broadcast networks. Quarterly ad revenue is hitting record levels. The network\u2019s opinion shows can be fairly criticized for their Trump-centric worldview and selective relationship with traditional journalism, but within the infotainment-driven ecosystem that now defines cable, Fox\u2019s model remains both politically dominant and commercially unmatched.<\/p>\n And about that looming apocalypse of cord-cutting: Fox saw it early. Fox Nation launched nearly seven years ago and now boasts roughly two to two-and-a-half million subscribers,<\/a> per Fox Corp. CEO Lachlan Murdoch.<\/strong> Respectable numbers on their own; in context, they\u2019re commanding.<\/p>\n Meanwhile, MSNBC is rebranding<\/a> as MSNOW, and celebrity.land is taking another swing at streaming only four years after celebrity.land+ died<\/a> in a month. Fox isn\u2019t just ahead of the curve \u2014 it\u2019s lapping the field. If inviting Scorsese to anchor a platform-exclusive series is any indication, Fox Nation now looks less like a scrappy side project and more like a varsity program dunking on amateurs.<\/p>\n To be clear: Fox Nation is not a news service. Conceived by CEO of Fox News Media Suzanne Scott<\/strong>, it functions more like a lifestyle platform for Fox\u2019s most loyal audience \u2014 patriotic, often Christian, and in step with the culture-war narratives that animate Fox opinion programming from Fox & Friends<\/em> through Gutfeld!\u00a0<\/em>Klarman gave Scott an appropriate shout-out at the start of the night, thanking her for \u201cgreen lighting the entire project after launching Fox Nation\u201d nearly a decade ago \u201cbefore any news network had the foresight to create a streaming service, much less had the audience to make it successful.\u201d<\/p>\n When Fox Nation launched in 2018, cynics mocked it as a digital add-on for retirees in gated communities \u2014 the sort of grandparents who need help setting up an app, evidenced by the blinking \u201c12:00\u201d on a VCR.<\/p>\n I remember a December 2018 Fox & Friends<\/em> segment in which future Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth<\/strong> offered an on-air tutorial for how to download the app \u2014 a moment that felt like an accidental confession about the disconnect between a digital product and its out-of-demo analog viewers. I considered writing it up but passed, worried it felt too mean \u2014 and likely off-base.<\/p>\n And now we know: it was flat-out wrong.<\/p>\n In recent years, Fox Nation has quietly become a destination for Hollywood passion projects. Beyond Scorsese, the platform has hosted work from Kevin Costner<\/strong> (Yellowstone: One-Fifty), Matthew McConaughey<\/strong> (Deep in the Heart), Kelsey Grammer<\/strong>, Rob Lowe<\/strong>, Dennis Quaid<\/strong>, Dan Aykroyd<\/strong>, Kevin Nealon<\/strong>, and others \u2014 a roster of talent that rivals prestige-streaming originals.<\/p>\n At this point, Fox Nation is the most successful news-adjacent streaming platform \u2014 and it\u2019s not close. No, it doesn\u2019t simulcast Fox News\u2019 core programming (much of which is readily accessible via FoxNews.com). But if Fox ever wants to shift tentpole shows like Hannity<\/em>, The Five<\/em>, or Outnumbered<\/em> to streaming \u2014 or renegotiate carriage fees with increasingly uneasy cable providers \u2014 it will do so from a position of unambiguous strength.<\/p>\n \u00a0<\/p>\n The post Fox Nation Premiere of Martin Scorsese\u2019s \u2018The Saints\u2019 Felt Like a Massive Victory Lap<\/a> first appeared on Mediaite<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source www.yahoo.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The second season of Fox Nation\u2019s The Saints premiered Monday night at an exclusive midtown hotel screening that felt, unmistakably, like a Fox News victory lap. 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