Amazon has signed a licensing deal with A&E to make shows from the A&E, Bio, History and Lifetime channels available for streaming on Prime Instant Video, the company announced Friday. Netflix lost streaming rights to many of those shows in September. Read more at paidContent »
Fanhattan is trying to make it easier for users to discover content available on mobile, and soon connected TV devices. With that in mind, it has added videos from new content sources, including movies from Crackle and TV shows from PBS and Lifetime. Read more »
PlayOn users will soon get a lot more content options, as the software maker has opened up its API, enabling users to build channels for their own favorite content sources. Already users have developed 20 new channels, including some for Food Network, Lifetime and TV Land. Read more »
The branded series Suite 7, directed and written by some of web video’s best known talent and starring known players like Shannen Doherty, Brian Austin Green and Illeana Douglas, has a few issues with length — but is otherwise a unique and intriguing experience. Read more »
Shannen Doherty and Brian Austin Green are just two of the stars brought together for Suite 7, a branded web series produced by CJP Digital and distributed by Lifetime to promote the value of “a good night’s sleep” for the Better Sleep Council. Read more »
The premise of Lifetime’s new web series Street Doctors is a good one: Get a real doctor to answer some of those nuttier medical questions you’re pretty sure you know the answer to, but would be happy to get confirmation on. Questions like “How do you […] Read more »
