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MONTREAL: Stingray Digital Group has appointed Rick Bergan as the company's new head of content distribution for the United States, effective August 15.

BROOKLYN: VICE Media and HBO have set a September debut for the half-hour nightly newscast VICE News Tonight.

LOS ANGELES: New Kids on the Block’s Joey McIntyre is fronting a new scripted comedy series for Pop from Donnie Wahlberg and Jenny McCarthy.

LOS ANGELES: HBO has confirmed that season eight of Game of Thrones will be its last.

AUSTIN: Through a deal with Verizon Communications, El Rey Network is now available for Verizon Fios TV customers in the U.S.

LOS ANGELES: TNT has greenlit a pilot for Monsters of God, a post-Civil War drama from Rod Lurie (The Contender) and Brad Pitt's Plan B Entertainment for Turner's Studio T, while sister Turner networks TBS and truTV also presented new upcoming programming highlights.

WASHINGTON, D.C./LOS ANGELES: National Geographic Channel has secured a script-development deal for a global limited series based on the soon-to-be-published Michael Crichton manuscript Dragon Teeth.

HOLLYWOOD: Nahnatchka Khan, creator of the ABC comedy series Fresh Off the Boat, has set up a production pod housed within Twentieth Century Fox Television.

ATLANTA: TBS has greenlit the digital animated series Storyville and a scripted show inspired by rapper The Notorious B.I.G.

LOS ANGELES: HBO has renewed the Dwayne Johnson-led comedy series Ballers for a third season, following the premiere of its sophomore run on July 17.