PhotoSeeso, NBC’s streaming comedy subscription service, is folding later this year. The service started in January 2016 as a niche alternative to Hulu, Amazon and Netflix, but struggled to maintain a steady subscriber base. But Evan Shapiro, who helped start the service as executive vice president of NBCUniversal Digital Enterprises, departed in May, and the service suffered a round of layoffs in June. In a Facebook post on Wednesday, Seeso announced its closing and said that some of its original content would move to VRV, a separate streaming service. The service’s newest series, “There’s … Johnny!,” which dramatizes the behind-the-scenes action of “The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson,” has been postponed from its scheduled debut this month.

Source: New York Times August 09, 2017 22:07 UTC