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TORONTO/NEW YORK: Supporting its recent investment in the YouTube MCN Omnia Media, Blue Ant Media has set up a sales office in New York City. Jason Cason, formerly the director of partner development at Machinima, has been tapped to lead the East Coast Blue Ant Media Solutions team. Jillian Bove …

LOS ANGELES: Discovery Communications has released the slew of new and returning titles it will be premiering across its several networks, including the flagship Discovery Channel, along with Investigation Discovery, Science Channel and Animal Planet, among others. Discovery Channel’s Naked and Afraid, which began airing last month, strands a man …

NEW YORK: HBO has lined up the miniseries Olive Kitteridge, starring Frances McDormand and Richard Jenkins, along with a movie adaptation of Master Class featuring Meryl Streep, a biopic of the legendary blues singer Bessie Smith with Queen Latifah, and a number of other concert and series highlights. McDormand (Fargo) …

BEVERLY HILLS: El Rey Network, the channel founded by filmmaker Robert Rodriguez, has given a second-season renewal to its new series Matador, while also picking up the rights to classic cop show Miami Vice, among other programming highlights. Matador’s second-run renewal comes ahead of the show’s July 15 premiere. The …

LOS ANGELES: Hulu has secured an exclusive, multiyear licensing agreement to stream all seasons of South Park on its Hulu Plus subscription service. The deal, signed by Hulu and South Park Digital Studios, sees the entire South Park library become available for free on Hulu from now until the premiere …

NEW YORK: Dana Walden and Gary Newman will oversee a new business unit within Fox Networks Group, Fox Television Group, which combines Fox Broadcasting Company and 20th Century Fox Television. Newman and Walden will both report to Peter Rice, the chairman of Fox Networks Group. Their appointments take effect later …

DALLAS/LOS ANGELES: Otter Media, the newly named venture between AT&T and The Chernin Group, has acquired the arts and crafts video site Creativebug from Demand Media. Otter Media is focused on acquiring, investing in and launching OTT video services. Creativebug, founded by Jeanne Lewis and Julie Roehm in 2012, provides …

LOS ANGELES: Pivot has two new shows coming to its schedule in October, Welcome to Fairfax and Freestyle Love Supreme, in addition to greenlighting an original docuseries, The Operatives, and a third season of the Josh Thomas comedy Please Like Me. Pivot will launch the new half-hour series Freestyle Love …

NEW YORK: The martial arts drama Badlands (working title) has been given a straight-to-series order from AMC, which has also unveiled new details about the highly anticipated upcoming series Better Call Saul. Badlands is very loosely based on the classic Chinese tale Journey to the West. It tells the story …

DALLAS: AT&T has signed a carriage deal with EPIX, debuting the movie service as a premium offering across its U-verse TV platform. As part of the agreement, AT&T will carry four new channels: EPIX, EPIX 2, EPIX 3 and EPIX Drive-In. The network airs thousands of film titles, including the …