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The U.S. is awash in subscription streaming networks, with more than 200 of them now jockeying for viewers. But the BrewDog Network, a $5-a-month service launching today, introduces a bit of a new wrinkle. The network will deliver a lineup of cocktail, craft beer, culinary and travel shows — not from a traditional TV…

Death by a skinny bundle. The men-focused Esquire Network, a partnership between NBCUniversal and Hearst Magazines, will no longer be a linear TV network. The digital-only brand will still feature original programming, including new series Borderland USA (working title) and Edgehill, which will now launch in the…

DirecTV and U-Verse subscribers can say goodbye to NBCUniversal and Hearst Magazine’s Esquire Network. AT&T’s satellite and wired TV services plan to drop the channel tonight. "We routinely modify our channel lineups based on many factors, while continuing to strive to offer more choice, control and convenience to our…

Esquire Network is staying with the car theme, ordering six half-hour episodes of Joyride from the team behind the popular Car Matchmaker franchise. It’s set to premiere November 15 at 10 PM on Esquire. Hosted by rapper T-Pain, professional race car driver Brian Vickers, The OC alumna Mischa Barton and actor Oliver…

Ahead of tonight's Season 5 finale, NBC has greenlighted a sixth season of hit competition summer series American Ninja Warrior. Coming off its most-watched season ever, American Ninja Warrior is averaging a 2.1 rating and 7.2 million viewers overall so far this summer, according to Nielsen. It also landed its first…

NBC may be holding back in its coverage of U.S. Olympian Ryan Lochte’s run-in with authorities over what Rio de Janeiro cops insist is a fabricated robbery report – in keeping with the broadcaster’s apparent let-others-lead policy on Olympics scandal coverage. But that’s not to say the company isn’t looking for…

Ninja Warrior, the original obstacle course competition series from Japan and precursur to American Ninja Warrior and spinoff Team Ninja Warrior, is heading to Esquire Network. Under a multi-year licensing deal between Esquire and producers TBS (Tokyo Broadcasting System Television), the Ninja Warrior marathon will…

Esquire Network has ordered a fourth season of its hit docuseries Friday Night Tykes and a season two of spinoff Friday Night Tykes: Steel Country. The fourth season of Friday Night Tykes will look at the 10, 11 and 12-year-old divisions of some of the most competitive youth football leagues in the nation centered in…

Esquire Network has ordered new hourlong motorcycle building competition series Wrench Against The Machine for fall. Hosted by motorcycle aficionados, Brian Schaffran and Dani Pajak, Wrench Against the Machine will feature bike builder contestants who will be tasked with building everything from café racers to…

Esquire Network has ordered eight episodes of The Mike Stud Project (working title) docuseries, which follows baseball player-turned-rapper and YouTube star Mike Stud for premiere this summer. Stud is a Duke educated, former All-American baseball player who turned to music after an injury robbed him of his lifelong…

Adam Stotsky has been named President of E! Entertainment, expanding his responsibilities to include all unscripted programming and development for the pop culture network. Stotsky previously served as General Manager for E! He will continue overseeing all day-to-day operations of the network, including news, digital…

Esquire Network bagged its best primetime and total day with a Back To The Future marathon on Wednesday to mark the date to which Marty McFly and Doc Brown time traveled in the original movie. Esquire aired all three Back To The Future films throughout the day and night. The stunt clocked its best numbers in…