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BURBANK: ABC has scheduled for mid-January an original special marking the 75th anniversary of iconic Marvel superhero Captain America. The one-hour Marvel’s Captain America: 75 Heroic Years will air January 19. Produced by Bow and Arrow Entertainment, it will follow the comic book hero’s history from 1941 to the present …

SUNNYVALE/STAMFORD: NBC Sports Group has renewed and expanded its digital-content partnership with Yahoo Sports, extending the duo’s reach beyond desktop to mobile and Tumblr. The beefed-up alliance will provide even more content to Yahoo/NBC Sports viewers, including Premier League highlights, NBC Sports Regional Network team reports and Golf Channel content. …

LOS ANGELES: Actor and filmmaker James Franco is slated to executive produce a remake of the TV movie Mother, May I Sleep With Danger? for Lifetime in honor of the cult classic’s 20th anniversary. Sony Pictures Television, which produced the original, will collaborate with Rabbit Bandini Productions on the project. …

NEW YORK: The Walking Dead was the top TV show on Twitter in 2015, according to Nielsen’s year-end lists, which also ranked the AMC zombie drama as the most time-shifted program and number one entertainment series with adults 18 to 49 and 18 to 34. For the third year in …

DALLAS/LOS ANGELES: AT&T has begun carrying Entertainment Studios’ portfolio of networks a year after being hit with a $10 billion racial discrimination lawsuit. The new carriage deal will see Comedy.TV and Justice Central.TV added to DIRECTV’s offerings, while the U-verse platform will carry Comedy.TV, Recipe.TV, ES.TV, MyDestination.TV, Cars TV and …

NEW YORK: The Ellen DeGeneres Show, which NBCUniversal Owned Television Stations had picked up through the 2016-17 season, has been given an additional extension through the summer of 2020. NBCUniversal struck the deal with Warner Bros. Domestic TV Distribution, which represents the popular syndicated daytime talk show. Through the agreement, …

LENEXA/NEW YORK: Following a new carriage agreement, AMC Networks' channels such as AMC, BBC America and SundanceTV will continue to be available to customers of the National Cable Television Cooperative (NCTC). Terms of the agreement were not disclosed. The networks included in the NCTC pact are AMC, BBC America, IFC, …

SUNNYVALE: Yahoo has shuttered its streaming service Yahoo Screen, which last year aired the sixth season of the cult series Community after picking it up from NBC. The digital hub also premiered the sci-fi comedy Other Space and the scripted sports series Sin City Saints. Yahoo’s video property will now …

SILVER SPRING: This month, Acorn TV is due to debut the Irish Western miniseries Dominion Creek, along with the British supernatural thriller Midwinter of the Spirit, the Canadian cop show 19-2, and the season finale of the Aussie period drama A Place to Call Home. January 11 will see the …

LOS ANGELES: Alcon Entertainment has hired Laura Lancaster, who previously served as executive VP of drama programming at NBC Entertainment, as president of its TV group. Lancaster will report to Alcon Entertainment co-founders and co-CEOs Broderick Johnson and Andrew Kosove. Alcon recently scored a second season order for its Syfy …