James Hale

• NBCUniversal’s Streaming Service Peacock Will Reboot ‘Battlestar Galactica’ And Revive ‘Saved By The Bell’
• Former SourceFed Hosts ‘The Valleyfolk’ Win First Season Of NBC’s ‘Bring The Funny’

  SourceFed’s spiritual successor, a foursome of the axed news/commentary channel’s original hosts now calling themselves The Valleyfolk, has won the first season of NBC’s comedy competition Bring the Funny.

  
• SoulPancake’s NewFronts Presentation: Control Over Its YouTube Ad Inventory, New Programming, And A PBS Partnership

  Digital content studio SoulPancake is now part of an elite group: it’s one of a handful of organizations permitted to work directly with marketers to sell advertising on their YouTube videos.

  
• ‘Game Of Thrones’ Alum Sophie Turner Will Headline Quibi Thriller ‘Survive’

  Fresh off her years-long turn as Game of Thrones’ Queen in the North, Sophie Turner has signed on to a project that may have an equally lofty body count.

  
• YouTube To Shutter Its TV-Optimized ‘Leanback’ Feature On Oct. 2
• YouTube’s Abbreviated Subscriber Counts Are Here
• YouTube Millionaires: Sam The Cooking Guy (And His Son Max) Are YouTube’s Culinary Dream Team
• Rooster Teeth Lays Off 13% Of Staff, Is Beginning “A New Chapter,” CEO Says
• PewDiePie Retracts $50K Donation To Anti-Defamation League, Says It Doesn’t “Feel Genuine”
• Vudu Debuts First Original Series, Along With Family Viewing Feature That Autoskips “Objectionable” Content
• Creators Going Pro: Jesse And Mike Garfield’s Wild And Wacky YouTube Skits Have Wrangled Them 10 Million Subscribers
• The Ad Council, Movember, And Creators Come Together For “Man Of More Words” Suicide Prevention Campaign