Facebook Watch has announced its programming slate for summer and fall and set premiere dates, including the new toon comedy Human Discoveries, featuring Zac Efron and Anna Kendrick, and Limetown, the podcast-turned-series starring Jessica Biel Also among the four new series and five returning shows getting dates are…

Facebook said its nascent Watch service is attracting more than 400 million monthly viewers who spend at least a minute checking out videos, 75 million of whom spend an average of 20 minutes watching shows every day. The self-reported data reflects strong momentum for the year-old service which, prior to its global…

Facebook has renewed four original series for second seasons, financing shows that build community and spark conversation on the Watch platform — features that the social network sees as differentiating its video service from rivals. Five Points, Huda Boss, Sacred Lies and Sorry for Your Loss will return to Facebook Wa…

Scandal star Kerry Washington knows first-hand about the power social media in building community around a show — social media helped propel the success of the ABC drama. “When Scandal came along we were not a show that was necessarily poised to be a hit,” Washington said today in a conversation at the Consumer…

Five Points has rounded out cast for the new 10-episode original drama series on Facebook Watch. Ray Cham Jr., Trey Curtis, Nathaniel Potvin, Jake Walker and Spence Moore II are set for the series created and written by Adam Giaudrone (Being Mary Jane, Black Lightning). The new cast members talk about their roles on…

Indigenous Media and Kerry Washington's Simpson Street are teaming to produce Five Points, a 10-episode original drama series created and written by Adam Giaudrone (Being Mary Jane, Black Lightning) for Facebook Watch. Five Points follows about five students at a South Side Chicago high school who each experience a…