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NEW YORK: The half-hour comedy Togetherness, which comes from brothers Jay and Mark Duplass, has been renewed for a second season by HBO. Production on season two will get under way later this year in Los Angeles. The second season is slated to launch on the premium cable network in …

SEATTLE: Adding to a roster that includes the Golden Globe winner Transparent and the comedy Mozart in the Jungle, Amazon Studios has lined up the new original series Catastrophe. The half-hour comedy will be available exclusively on Prime Instant Video; it launches in the U.S. this spring and will come …

NEW YORK: Bravo Media has picked up the Emmy-winning series Top Chef for a 13th season, to launch this fall. Top Chef ranks as the number one food competition show on cable among viewers 25 to 54. The show is produced by Magical Elves. Bravo is kicking off a nationwide …

NEW YORK: A new report finds that U.S. consumers devote four times more attention to multiscreen TV than to all activity on the four main Internet portals, YouTube and Facebook combined. The Get Real: Video Advertising 2015 report from the Cabletelevision Advertising Bureau examined the major players in the field …

LOS ANGELES: Academy Awards producer and industry veteran Michael B. Seligman has opened his own event services consultancy, clinching Chrysler as his first client. The new division, launched under the producer’s Seligman Entertainment banner, will help produce Chrysler’s dealers’ conference in Las Vegas this September. The consultation unit will additionally …

NEW YORK: CC:Studios, Comedy Central’s in-house multiplatform unit, has announced the debut of the travelogue Roustabout with Kurt Braunohler, along with the renewal of two digital series and five shows in development. Roustabout with Kurt Braunohler follows the titular comedian as he sets out on a seven-city jet-ski tour to …

NEW YORK: BBC America is set to premiere next month the comedy quiz show QI, along with the broadcast of the BAFTA film awards, both hosted by British actor, comedian, writer and director Stephen Fry. QI, due out February 19, is a panel show in which contestants are rewarded if …

NEW YORK: Last night's Super Bowl XLIX was the most tweeted Super Bowl ever, with more than 28.4 million global tweets containing terms related to the game and halftime show sent during the live telecast. Among the moments that generated the biggest peaks of Twitter conversation, measured in tweets per …

NEW YORK: Super Bowl XLIX on NBC Sunday brought in 114.4 million viewers to become the most-watched telecast in U.S. history. Sunday night's broadcast ranks as the most-watched television program in U.S. history and the highest-rated Super Bowl in 30 seasons, according to fast national data released by The Nielsen …

NEW YORK: The U.S. Department of Justice has decided not to prosecute News Corp. or 21st Century Fox following its investigation into the alleged voicemail hacking and bribery scandal. A joint statement, issued by Gerson Zweifach, general counsel of News Corp. and senior executive VP and group general counsel, chief …