AwesomenessTV and DHX signed an original development and production agreement for content to air on Family Channel in Canada. In addition, DHX Television licensed three ATV series, AwesomenessTV, a sketch comedy on Nickelodeon US; reality series Make Me Over, hosted by YouTuber’s Bethany Mota and Ingrid Nilsen, and docu-series Cheerleaders, for Family Channel. “We are […]
Time traveling Mr. Peabody and Sherman are headed to Netflix. The animated duo, introduced in the 1960s during the Rocky & Bullwinkle Show, will be voiced by Chris Parnell (Saturday Night Live) and Max Charles (American Sniper) on The New Mr. Peabody and Sherman Show. Thirteen episodes of the DreamWorks Animation series, which follows the […]
Oxygen Media is giving YouTuber Frankie Grande (2.6 million followers) his own half-hour special. Worst.Post.Ever: With Frankie Grande, premiering Aug. 18, follows Grande as he breaks down the most talked-about online posts, tweets and selfies from Instagram, Facebook, Twitter and Tumblr. And he’s a little excited about it. “I have always dreamed about having such […]
The personal streaming world just got a little more crowded: Facebook unveiled “Live,” a feature that allows celebs to broadcast live videos to their fans. FB says verified users including Dwayne “the Rock” Johnson, Serena Williams, Luke Bryan, Ricardo Kaka, Ashley Tisdale, Lester Holt, Martha Stewart, Michael Buble and WWE’s Paul “Triple H” Levesque plan […]
With the Verizon-AOL acquisition complete, AOL is doing the executive shuffle, part of a reorg that groups AOL in three businesses. Huffington Post CEO Jimmy Maymann will oversee AOL’s consumer brands and help launch Verizon’s upcoming SVOD service. Bob Lord, President of AOL, will have oversight of business-to-business, and Bill Pence, Chief Technology Officer, will […]
Hannibal’s Hugh Dancy has joined the cast of Hulu Original, The Way, with Aaron Paul (Breaking Bad) and Michelle Monaghan (True Detective). The 10-ep drama examines a family at the center of a controversial movement struggling with relationships, marriages and power struggles. Production will begin in New York this September, for an early 2016 launch.
The new SVOD service from the Chernin Group and AT+T’s joint venture, Otter Media, has a name: Ellation. The platform will house Otter’s digital brands CrunchyRoll, Creative Bug and ScoompiTV, with an anticipated on 30-50 more channels on the way. Former YouTube Vice President of content Tom Pickett will head division.
Amazon’s Transparent will return for season two on Dec. 4. Creator Jill Soloway announced at TCA yesterday that the Emmy-nominated series has added a trans woman to its writing team. “Any show about trans people should have trans people at the center of it,” said Soloway.
Vice Media launched its first women’s interest site, Broadly, yesterday. Content on the company’s 11th channel features original reporting on culture, fashion, sex and politics, in video series, docs, profiles and daily features. Sample programming: Style and Error, Ovary Action and a marijuana column. Said publisher Shanon Kelley, “We’re telling original stories you can’t find […]
Amazon has teamed with The Weinstein Co., which has U.S. and Canadian rights to Justin Kurtzel-directed Macbeth, to bring the Shakespeare adaptation to its subscribers after its December theatrical release. Earlier this year, Amazon’s head of Original Films Ted Hope said the tech giant plans to produce its own movies and gain early SVOD rights […]
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