Quibi Hires Peter Farrelly to Write Comedy Series ‘The Now’
Farrelly (“Something About Mary”) is joined by writers Steve Leff (“Two and a Half Men”) and Pete Jones (“Dumb and Dumber To”)
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‘The Fugitive’ Adaptation From Nick Santora in Development for Quibi
The action series is produced by Thunder Road Films with 3 Arts Entertainment and developed with Riverstone Pictures
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Crunchyroll and VIZ Media Partner on Home Video and EST Distribution (Exclusive)
VIZ Media will distribute select Crunchyroll series across the U.S. and Canada
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Twitter Permanently Suspends Egyptian Actor for ‘Now Lets Kill Some Jews’ Tweet
Hesham Mansour was removed after years of anti-Semitic tweets
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FITE TV Boss Is ‘Optimistic’ About NJPW ‘Southern Showdown’ PPV Sales – Despite 5 AM Start Time
Mike Weber ranks New Japan Pro-Wrestling and AEW for TheWrap
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Juanpa Zurita, Nabela Noor to Star in 2 New Facebook Watch Series From ATTN: (Exclusive)
Both shows are funded by Facebook and will live exclusively on Watch
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Twitch Now Allows Creators to Stream Exclusively to Subscribers
The feature is only be available to Twitch’s group of Partner and Affiliate level streamers
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Conde Nast Entertainment Names Kathryn Friedrich as General Manager, EVP of Operations
She was previously chief business officer at RYOT Studio
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Connected TV Advertising Accounts For Nearly Half of Video Ad Impressions, Study Says
Mobile trails behind, accounting for 25% of video ad impressions
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Lorne Michaels, Seth Meyers-Produced Series Lands at Jeffrey Katzenberg’s Quibi
“Maplewoth Murders” is written by Paula Pell and John Lutz and comes from Universal Television
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‘Harry Potter: Wizards Unite’ Game Hits 400,000 Downloads on First Day, But ‘Pokemon Go’ Had 19 Times More
Still, AR game scored 3 million downloads in its first four days and hit No. 1 in Apple’s app store with $1.1 million in grosses
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CBS News Digital Audience Strategy: ‘No Need to Pander to Any Demographic’
“It’s insulting to ‘younger viewers’ to suggest that they want their news differently than anybody else,” CBS News General Manager Christy Tanner tells TheWrap
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Tubi Surpasses 20 Million Monthly Active Users
The streamer says customers watched over 94 million hours of content during May
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7 Big Media Trends of 2019 (So Far), From Streaming Fatigue to DirecTV Now’s Face Plant
“Soon we’ll all start looking at our credit card bills and start saying, ‘Why am I subscribing to all of these services?”” Paul Hardart, a former Warner Bros. executive, told TheWrap
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Will ‘Harry Potter: Wizards Unite’ Be More Than a ‘Pokemon Go’ Redo?
“We’ve taken a lot of the stuff from ‘Go’ that has added depth to the game and kept people engaged for all these years and we’ve added that from Day 1,” Niantic CEO John Hanke tells TheWrap
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FuboTV to Add 13 Channels From Discovery in New Multi-Year Carriage Agreement
Six of the channels will launch on fuboTV’s $54.99 base package
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‘Orphan Black’ Is Getting an Audio Sequel Series Starring Tatiana Maslany
“The Next Chapter” is a 10-episode series set eight years after the final season
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Facebook Watch Hits 140 Million Daily Active Users, Up 47% From December
Company says it reaches 750 million users monthly that spend at least one minute with the platform
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Snoop Dogg Sells Michael Strahan Dental Kit in New Digital Series ‘Close Talker’ (Exclusive)
Other guests to be featured in the new series include Adam Rodriguez, Julie Bowen, and Rob Riggle
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Inside Gunpowder & Sky’s Growth to 50 Million-Plus Monthly Viewers
“It’s a great time to be an independent premium content provider,” co-founder Van Toffler says
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6 Tips for Launching a 24/7 Linear Channel From Next OTT Founder George Rausch
“Just because there is technology to ‘make a linear channel’ does not mean that a multi-tool, or one-size fits all solution is going to offer the best-in-class option for ad sales,” Next OTT founder George Rausch says
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Why Many Video Publishers Think Roku Beats Amazon’s Fire TV Despite Growth in Active Users
“Amazon is surprisingly green when it comes to selling or swapping OTT promotional opportunities,” one executive says
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Crackle Plus Names Philippe Guelton President, Appoints 3 Sony Execs to Leadership Team
Guelton will report to the chief operating officer of CSS Entertainment Elana Sofko
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First Media Renews Content Partnership With China-Based Streamer iQiyi
iQiyi will stream new episodes from over 10 original series from First Media’s “Baby First” vertical
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‘Punk’d’ and ‘Singled Out’ Remakes Greenlit at Jeffrey Katzenberg’s Quibi
Both shows will launch with 20 new episodes of under 10 minutes long
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Discovery, WWE Lead $47 Million in New Funding for FloSports Video Streamer
The sports-focused streamer has raised $75 million to date
