A&E ordered 20 more episodes of Bates Motel, to air over two seasons starting in 2016. Production begins later this year. Seasons four and five will “witness the next stages of Norman’s transformation into the most notorious psychopath in cinematic history,” said Rob Sharenow, EVP and GM of A&E and Lifetime. Not coming back: freshman […]
GSN has started production on Steampunk’d, tasking 10 contestants with making futuristic designs. Series launches later this summer.
Talk about 20/20 vision: Over-the-top programming and video revenue will bring in $51.1 billion by the year 2020, according to a new report from Digital TV Research. The revenue predicted in the next five years will nearly double the $26 billion expected to roll in this year. The U.S. will remain the top market in […]
Winona Ryder is the next star to sign on to a Netflix original. She will join the supernatural thriller from Matt and Ross Duffer (horror short We All Fall Down), called Montauk (wt), an eight episode series premiering next year. The brothers will executive produce along with Shawn Levy and Dan Cohen. Plot revolves around […]
The NFL is testing uncharted waters, hiring Jordan Levin to serve as the league’s first Chief Content Officer and SVP. Levin will now be charged with developing and implementing “an innovative, league-wide content plan that advances the long-term growth objectives of the NFL across all of its owned and operated media assets, including NFL Network, […]
The Players’ Tribune locked in the first close of its Series B financing, pulling in $9.5 million. The round for the Derek Jeter-founded media company was announced by New Enterprise Associates and allow the platform to continue delivering athlete-generated content across a variety of multimedia channels and allow for the expansion of The Players’ Tribune’s […]
Syfy and LG Electronics have teamed for an interactive TV component that brings real-time interactivity to the net’s Defiance. The “Syfy Sync for LG Smart TV” app lets viewers with LG connected televisions participate in polls and receive series trivia and backstory. Season three of Defiance launched Friday at 8p.
A year and a half after joining Yahoo as global news anchor, Katie Couric has renewed her contract, confirmed her spokesman on Friday. There had been speculation that Couric, who was co-host of Today when Andy Lack was president of NBC News, might rejoin NBC now that Lack has returned to the network.
YouTube is ramping up the video game live streaming competition this summer. After Amazon snatched up Twitch in a $1 billion deal from Google a year ago, YT is now working on its own site and app dedicated to video game live streams. Called YouTube Gaming, there will be a page for each of the […]
Amazon will release the first episode of Catastrophe, a UK comedy from comedian Rob Delaney and Sharon Horgan, for free on Facebook starting today (Monday) at 4p ET. The pilot will be available to stream on Amazon’s Facebook page exclusively for 48 hours before going up on Amazon Prime Instant Video. Catastrophe is a half-hour […]
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