Programming

The partnership will see a wealth of Lionsgate and Starz content featured on Amazon streamer MGM+ including Outlander, Power Book and The Serpent Queen. It is the third instalment in a series of content deals that MGM+ has closed recently with Lionsgate for Europe and Latin America.

Social media stars who’ve parlayed content niches into massive, cross-platform audiences will share their unique approaches to content creation in a panel at TVNewsCheck’s Programming Everywhere conference at the NAB Show on April 14. Register here.

Georgia lawmakers have rejected a bill that would have limited what the state can spend on tax incentives for film and TV production.

WWE’s weekly shows saw improvements in the Q1 key demo ratings year over year while remaining mostly steady in total viewership. Compared to the same time period last year, Smackdown is up 15% in the adults 18-49 demo to an average of 892,000 viewers per episode and up 3% in total viewers with 2.4 million viewers per episode. It should be noted, though, that those numbers do not include the episode that aired on March 29. Raw is up 6% in the demo with an average of 733,000 viewers, but down 7% in total viewers with 1.7 million viewers per episode. NXT saw the biggest increase percentage-wise of the three shows, up 31% in the demo to 242,000 viewers and 7% in total viewers with 646,000 per episode.

AXS TV said it will be running a new series from Bare Knuckle Fighting Championship starting April 4 at 11 p.m. Bare Knuckle Fighting Championship will continue to appear in that time slot until April 18, which it will move to 10 p.m. With 13 hour-long episodes, the series will debut  with a review of top matches from BKFC 38 and feature fighters including Dat Nguyen, Daniel Straus, Bostwick and Isaac Doolittle.

The police procedural diginet is now available on ABC Owned Television Stations that add more than 4 million new, over-the-air TV households as well as 3.73 million new pay TV/cable households.

The city of Oakland plans to present MLB‘s Athletics ownership with an offer to extend the team’s lease for five years, with an opt-out after three. The Athletics have announced plans to move the franchise to Las Vegas, where a proposed stadium is scheduled to be completed by 2028. The current Athletics lease in Oakland ends this season, leaving a substantial gap in their home schedule.

Gossett broke through on the small screen as Fiddler in ABC’s groundbreaking 1977 miniseries Roots, which depicted the atrocities of slavery on TV. The sprawling cast included Ben Vereen, LeVar Burton and John Amos. Gossett’s performance won him an Emmy. He was 87.

Fierce media rivals like ESPN and Fox Sports aren’t often eager to see the other do well. But the competitors may be cheering one another this weekend. Fox and ESPN will this weekend each broadcast two games from the new — depending on how one looks at it — UFL, a league that has been built out of the former USFL and its rival, the XFL.

Warner Bros. Discovery’s branded content studio Courageous is helping game app Candy Crush promote its annual All Stars Tournament with custom videos featuring on-air talent.

NBC’s Chicago Fire was Wednesday’s most-watched show (6.3 million/0.5), while CBS’s Survivor dominated the night in the 18-49 demo (4.7 million/0.7).

Episodes will get a second run on Game Show Network after the daily show premieres in broadcast syndication starting this fall. Jaleel While to host.

Love Is Blind eclipsed Avatar: The Last Airbender to take No. 1 on the Nielsen streaming charts as Season 6 of the reality dating series started to heat up. From Feb. 19 to 25, Love Is Blind tallied 2.1 billion viewing minutes, which was slightly down from the week prior but enough to claim the top spot. This coincided with the release of the second batch of episodes in Season 6, which dropped on Netflix on Feb. 21.

Karamo has been renewed for a third season, Tracie Wilson, executive vice president, NBCUniversal Syndication Studios & E! News, said Thursday. The conflict talker is hosted by reality television personality, author, actor, producer and activist Karamo Brown.

On opening day Major League Baseball said it has taken over production and distribution of all local Colorado Rockies games this season, following the shutdown of AT&T SportsNet Rocky Mountain by Warner Bros. Discovery. DirecTV, Comcast’s Xfinity, Charter Communications’ Spectrum and Fubo have all set up channels where subscribers can watch Rockies games on Rockies.tv.

The Saturday games will air in at least 34 markets where Gray has stations beginning April 27.