Viral Video: Hulu’s Original “Paul, the Male Matchmaker” Set to Debut

Once more into the Internet content series breach!
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Netflix Doesn’t Want to Compete With Cable, Hulu, iTunes or GameFly. But HBO …

Reed Hastings make his case, again: We’re just another cable TV network, and people seem to like that just fine.
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The Louis C.K. Window

Louis C.K. isn’t the first performer to sell directly to his fans using the Web. But if he wants to, he can keep working with Big Media, too. Clever.
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Maybe Cord Cutting Isn't Here Yet. What About Cord Shaving?

Maybe cable subscribers aren’t dumping their service in favor of Netflix, Hulu, etc. But maybe they’re cutting back on HBO and Showtime. A new study says Web TV watchers are behind an eight percent drop in premium cable subs.

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Netflix Adds Fox's "Glee"

Netflix, which may lose access to shows from Showtime this summer, is adding some from News Corp.’s Fox studio. As in other recent deals the video service has signed, the new pact gives Netflix subscribers access to shows they haven’t had in the past–in this case, the big new titles are “Glee” and “Sons Of Anarchy”–but only older episodes: None of the shows will be available “in season.” The deal is an expansion of an existing agreement, and is non-exclusive. News Corp. also owns this Web site.

Showtime To Show Less On Netflix [UPDATED]

More evidence that Hollywood and the networks want to rein in Reed Hastings and Netflix: Showtime says it will pull some of its shows off the video service when a new pact kicks in this summer. But that pact hasn’t been finalized, so…

Flipboard Partners With Web Publishers for Full Content (and Full Disclosure: Including ATD)

Yesterday, I wrote about Pulse, a news-reading app with innovative design, going social by integrating Facebook. Now Flipboard, a social news-reading app based around Twitter and Facebook, is adding publisher feeds. (Full disclosure: Including from All Things Digital.) One thing’s clear: There’s a lot of excitement and energy going into how the iPad can re-create content consumption.

Netflix Adds "Saturday Night Live," "Battlestar Galactica," More NBC U Shows to Web Service

This could make a Web-only offering from Netflix that much more appealing: The movie service has signed an expanded rights deal with NBC Universal. The deal gives Netflix Web access to a long list of NBC U shows, from broadcast–every episode of “Saturday Night Live,” to cable–like Syfy’s awesome “Battlestar Galactica.”

Viral Video: "The Big C" Is Also a "Big D"–as in "Digital"

Showtime’s newest original series, “The Big C”–starring the superb Laura Linney, a tightly wound woman who reacts to a cancer diagnosis by living it up–premiered on the pay cable channel this week with almost 1.58 million viewers. That makes it a hit for a program on cable television, but what’s interesting to BoomTown is that the first episode’s online version, which has been available for weeks to gin up interest, has grabbed about that many views, too.

Is Netflix Ready to Announce a Big Money Deal With Epix?

Last month, Netflix CEO Reed Hastings told investors he’d be willing to pay real money to beef up his collection of online video offerings. Now it looks as if he’s ready to make good on his pledge: The Los Angeles Times says Netflix is in talks with Epix, the new pay cable competitor owned by Viacom and two other studios, for exclusive online rights to its movies–a deal worth perhaps as much as $1 billion over five years. If true, that’s a big deal. But we won’t know how big until we see the details.

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