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ATLANTA: TBS has renewed the series Search Party and People of Earth, ordering additional seasons of all six of its 2016 original scripted comedies.

REDWOOD CITY: Boom.tv has secured a $3.5 million seed round for the world's first 3D livestreaming platform for eSports, which is now in beta.

LOS ANGELES: The virtual-reality firm Survios has secured an additional $50 million in funding, with Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM) as a lead investor.

NEW YORK/LONDON: BBC Worldwide and ITV have combined forces to launch an ad-free SVOD service in the U.S., BritBox, which AMC Networks will have a stake in.

NORWOOD: National Amusements has asked the boards of CBS and Viacom to discontinue their exploration of a potential combination.

SANTA MONICA: Having cleared all necessary regulatory approvals, Lionsgate has officially closed on its deal to acquire Starz for approximately $4.4 billion in cash and stock.

SANTA MONICA: Skydance Media has launched a new label, Uncharted, with a slate of film and TV projects that includes AMC's Dietland.

LOS ANGELES: The digital studio New Form has received $18 million in a series B round of funding, which saw ITV taking a minority stake in the company and initial investor Discovery Communications upping its investment.

SANTA MONICA: ZoneTV has acquired more than 1,000 videos from Bonnier Corp., with plans to curate the content into several new pay-TV channels.

LOS ANGELES: MTG's Zoomin.TV is adding the new original series Zoomin.TV Now and Zoomin.TV Latino to the lineup of Wurl TV's broadband-delivered cable network The ALT Channel.