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BEVERLY HILLS: Netflix will be the exclusive home for the new comedy series Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt, co-created by Tina Fey and Robert Carlock, which was originally slated to premiere on NBC. Netflix picked up two seasons of the comedy, which stars Ellie Kemper (The Office) as a woman who escapes from a doomsday cult …

BURBANK: The freshman comedy Cristela has been given a full-season order by ABC, bringing the show to 22 episodes. Cristela stars Cristela Alonzo as a Mexican-American working to balance her family traditions with her budding career as a lawyer, figuring out how to simultaneously exist in the “traditional” and the …

NEW YORK: This evening, NBC is slated to broadcast The Making of Peter Pan Live!, a prime-time special that takes a behind-the-scenes look at Peter Pan Live!, an upcoming television event. The Making of Peter Pan Live! is produced by NBC News' Peacock Productions. The hour-long special will air on …

UNIVERSAL CITY: Time Inc.’s People has partnered with dick clark productions for the inaugural live-TV event The People Magazine Awards, set to air December 18 on NBC from the Beverly Hilton Hotel. The two-hour special will include performances from 5 Seconds of Summer and Maroon 5, and will feature appearances …

NEW YORK: NBCUniversal has hired Evan Shapiro as executive VP of digital enterprises, a newly created post for the company. Shapiro steps into the role as of December 8 and will be based in New York. He will report to Cesar Conde, the executive VP of NBCU. Shapiro comes to …

NEW YORK: According to a new report from Nielsen, online video streaming viewing went up 60 percent year-on-year in the third quarter, while traditional TV viewing slid 4 percent during the same period. Nielsen's latest Total Audience Report finds that Americans' average daily time spent watching live TV decreased by …

NEW YORK: Satellite TV provider DISH and consumer advocacy group Public Knowledge are among the organizations aligned in the newly formed “Stop Mega Comcast” Coalition, aiming to squash the merger of Comcast and Time Warner Cable. The group's manifesto states that it is committed to upholding the idea that "a …

NEW YORK: BBC America is going for a second season of Almost Royal, which marked its first original comedy series. The 8×30-minute season two is produced by Burning Bright Productions with Clive Tulloh (Eddie Izzard: Marathon Man, The Dame Edna Treatment) as executive producer and Séamus Murphy-Mitchell (Bug, Friday Night …

HOLLYWOOD: Fox 21 and Fox Television Studios are being combined into a single entity, the newly formed Fox 21 Television Studios, led by Bert Salke. Salke, who has been serving as the president of Fox 21, takes on the role of president for Fox 21 Television Studios. The new Fox …

UNIVERSAL CITY: Universal Cable Productions (UCP) has acquired the rights for the critically acclaimed inspirational documentary Dear Zachary from Kurt Kuenne, with the aim to develop it into a miniseries. Dear Zachary served as Kuenne's tribute to a fallen friend, Andrew Bagby. Kuenne interviewed numerous relatives, friends and associates of Bagby, …