Miramax has hired TV industry veterans Lindsay Gardner and Bob Cook as Strategic Advisers, the company announced today, bringing them aboard to help guide such strategic initiatives as digital distribution, domestic TV syndication and developing Miramax-branded cable networks. They will report to Miramax CEO Mike Lang, who worked with both at Fox Entertainment; Gardner was Affiliate Sales and Marketing president at Fox Cable Networks, and Cook is a former president and COO of Fox’s syndication/distribution arm Twentieth Television. Gardner was lead negotiator and point person on Miramax’s recent deal with Netflix.