NEW YORK: The now-defunct live streaming TV service Aereo has agreed to pay $950,000 to CBS Corporation and other broadcasters to settle its $99 million copyright case. The time-shifting TV startup is winding down in Chapter 11, after a U.S. Supreme Court ruling last June that declared its business model ...

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NEW YORK: The TV Land original series Younger, executive produced and created for television by Emmy Award-winning writer/producer Darren Star, is getting a 12-episode second season. The series stars Sutton Foster, Hilary Duff, Debi Mazar, Miriam Shor and Nico Tortorella. Its currently airing in its first season on TV Land ...

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NEW YORK: Ahead of tonight's season-three premiere, the hit series Inside Amy Schumer has received a fourth-season order from Comedy Central. Season three has ten all-new episodes, the first of which debuts tonight on Comedy Central at 10:30 p.m. The show features the eponymous comedienne exploring topics such as sex ...

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BEVERLY HILLS: The new Netflix multi-camera comedy Fuller House serves as a sequel to the classic family sitcom Full House and will feature a number of the original cast members, including Candace Cameron-Bure, Jodie Sweetin and Andrea Barber. Netflix ordered a 13-episode season from Warner Horizon Television, Miller-Boyett Productions and ...

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LOS ANGELES: The hit web comedy High Maintenance, which originally debuted on Vimeo, is coming to HBO with six new episodes. The series follows a Brooklyn marijuana dealer who delivers to a diverse array of clients across New York City. The show is created and written by the husband-and-wife duo ...

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BEVERLY HILLS: Survivor's Remorse, a Starz original comedy series, has begun filming its sophomore season in Atlanta for broadcast later this year. Survivor's Remorse is about a basketball player who moves to Georgia with his cousin after signing a multi-million-dollar contract with a professional team. The half-hour show stars Jessie ...

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BOSTON: Verizon has launched FiOS Custom TV, which offers customers a base channel package and allows them to opt in for the additional ones they want to pay to receive. Dubbed Verizon FiOS Custom TV, the offering is an industry first, changing the way that people buy cable. Each FiOS ...

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LOS GATOS: A third season of the hit series Orange Is the New Black is scheduled to launch exclusively on Netflix this June, and a fourth has just been ordered. Orange Is the New Black centers on a woman named Piper, who is serving out a prison sentence. The Emmy-winning ...

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ENGLEWOOD: DISH has become the first major U.S. pay-TV provider to offer the whole-home Netflix experience, having made the internet TV network available on Hopper’s Joey units. The addition of the Netflix app for DISH's Joey allows for second-, third- and fourth-room viewing by customers. The Netflix app became part ...

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NEW YORK: The entertainment, media and communications segment has been the industry most impacted by the "sharing economy," PwC US reports in its new Consumer Intelligence Series, with users eagerly sharing content and account access. The Sharing Economy report surveyed 1,000 U.S. consumers, held conversations with influencers and executives and ...

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