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Astronauts Wanted, a joint venture of former MTV Networks CEO Judy McGrath, Sony Music Entertainment and DIGA Studios (Scream, Teen Wolf) have teamed with Complex Networks on Sorry Not Sorry, an eight-episode female comedy sketch show, for premiere July 25 on Verizon’s go90. Featuring rising comics Manon Mathews…

Fullscreen has given the greenlight to H8TERS, an original series starring digital comedy’s Kian Lawley and Jc Caylen, with a 10-episode order. The new comedy pokes fun at internet celebrity and Millennial culture. Produced by Astronauts Wanted (a joint venture between former MTV Networks Chairperson/CEO Judy McGrath…

EXCLUSIVE: Australian actress Tammin Sursok and writer/director Sean McEwen (And Punching the Clown) have partnered with Astronauts Wanted, the youth-focused content development and production studio, to develop and produce a new scripted comedy series Aussie Girl. Loosely based on Sursok’s life circumstance, the…

It may seem like the most unlikely social-media platform to host a scripted superhero series, but Snapchat, the evanescent mobile-messaging app, will be getting just that from AT&T and its digital-media unit Fullscreen in collaboration with digital-media production house Astronauts Wanted. The…

HeyUSA, the online travel show featuring YouTube stars Grace Helbig and Mamrie Hart, has been picked up by Conde Nast Entertainment’s recently launched online venture, TheScene.com. Eight half-hour episodes of the crowd-sourced series, featuring Helbig and Hart kibbitzing from Cape Cod to Alaska, will be released…

Helbig, the former YouTube face of website MyDamnChannel who now hosts her own Youtube channel It’s Grace, announced the venture with production company Astronauts Wanted at Vidcon today in Anaheim during “Industry Day” of the giant fan festival. The  show, #HeyUSA, will launch July 1 and will be executive produced by…