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YouTube's Wigs Headed to Hulu Julia Stiles drama Blue will run on ad-supported service

Wigs, arguably the highest-profile of YouTube's marquee-driven channels, has opened a partnership with Hulu. The channel will distribute longer-form episodes of its flagship show, Blue, starring Julia Stiles, to the…

June 18, 2013, 12:32 PM EDT

Yes, Futurama Is Really Cancelled Showrunner David X. Cohen talks about it

Showrunner David X. Cohen has seen his and creator Matt Groening’s series Futurama through seven seasons—and 14 years of cancelations, syndicated success, direct-to-DVD resurrection, provisional renewal and, finally, a new…

June 17, 2013, 11:32 PM EDT

Analysis: Netflix, DreamWorks and the Brave New Content Licensing World New material will be in addition to upcoming Turbo: F.A.S.T.

Netflix has signed an agreement with DreamWorks for exclusive content produced by the latter, in addition to the upcoming Turbo: F.A.S.T. (based on this summer's movie of the same name…

June 17, 2013, 5:48 PM EDT

Viacom Finishes Major Upfront Biz Network group goes for volume over pricing again

Viacom has inked the last of its major upfront deals, pulling in increases of between 2 percent and 7 percent—two among clients who opted to increase volume 10 percent or…

June 17, 2013, 4:39 PM EDT

Chris Cuomo Is About to Get Mad as Hell on CNN Watch out, politicians

Specs Age 42 New gig Co-host of CNN’s New Day Old gig Co-anchor of ABC’s 20/20 So, your father is Mario Cuomo, your brother is Andrew Cuomo—why go into news and not politics? The biggest…

June 16, 2013, 10:04 PM EDT

Ad of the Day: Mr. Clean P&G gives us the origin story of a guy who was 'born to clean'

He had plenty of friends, but a different idea of fun." You know, with more than 100 licensing partners and some $173 million in product placement, you'd think Man of Steel…

June 13, 2013, 2:23 PM EDT

Social TV Use Appears to Be Growing More CW than CBS

Did you know you’re more likely to immediately tell all your Facebook friends about the terrible thing Kim Kardashian just said than you are to tweet during the show about…

June 10, 2013, 12:01 AM EDT

Twitch Bids Adieu to CBSi Ad Sales ESports hub sets up internal sales team led by CRO Jonathan Simpson-Bint

Twitch.tv, one of the principal players in the growing eSports genre (i.e. watching people play video games), will stop selling its ad inventory through CBS Interactive's sales team and will instead…

June 5, 2013, 3:02 PM EDT

Looks Like the Windowing Wars Are Back When It Comes to Digital/Cable TV Amazon deal for Viacom from Netflix echoes HBO-Starz tiffs

At the FX upfront breakfast this year, John Landgraf said something surprising: the company was rolling out a new digital service called FX Now. Part of the service (which is…

June 4, 2013, 8:22 PM EDT

A&E Head Robert DeBitetto to Change Gears, Will Run New Unit A+E Studios Networks to be run by evps under honcho Nancy Dubuc

The org chart at A+E Networks will finally start making sense: Robert DeBitetto, president and gm of A&E for the past decade, will leave his position as head of the…

June 3, 2013, 5:01 PM EDT

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