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Latino-owned global entertainment company Fuse Media on Tuesday announced exclusively to TheWrap the launch of Ignition Studios, a separate production consultancy that will be headed up by Fuse Studios VP Jon Scarlett.

Former Broadway Video and Comedy Central executives Jennifer Danielson, Mitch Lewis and Steve Elliott have been brought in to lead the initial effort in building out Ignition along with Fuse Media head of development Sydney Kim.

“Fuse Media is succeeding in our mission to deliver uplifting content to young, culturally diverse audiences both in the U.S. and around the world, as evidenced by our growing global footprint,” said Miguel Roggero, chairman and CEO of Fuse Media.

“With our strong history of engagement and years of proprietary research into what young, multicultural viewers actually want, Ignition will develop and produce IP with our clients to help them build a bridge to their audiences with stories that mirror their values and life experiences,...

Tooning Out the News is returning for a second season next month. The animated comedy series, which is an animated parody of a cable news show, will return with the launch of Paramount+ (currently known as CBS All Access). In season two, viewers will see smaller episodes arrive on weekdays with a full half-hour episode being released weekly.

Executive produced by Stephen Colbert, Chris Licht, Rj Fried, and Tim Luecke, Tooninbg Out the News' voice cast includes Mitch Lewis, Maureen Monahan, Simone Norman, Addison Anderson, Jeremy Bent, Meg Stalter, Jack Bensinger, Zach Smilovitz, Neil D'Astolfo, and Fried.

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This summer, The Rolling Stones are going on tour, and for some promotion help, they have turn to a YouTube channel that likes to emulate old ladies. The Kloons have released a new episode of their web series Sisters, and both Keith Richards and Mick Jagger make voice cameos.

In Sisters, Kloons members Mitch Lewis and Nik Kazoura reenact conversations between Nik's mom and his aunt. The series, which first debuted in June 2014, has spanned six episodes and received millions of views on The Kloons' YouTube channel. As Lewis explained in an email to Tubefilter, the Stones' touring company saw Sisters last fall and showed it to Richards and Jagger, who "really liked it" and agreed to participate.

Thus, a collaboration was born. In the latest episode of Sisters, the conversation tends to wander back toward The Rolling Stones, before Richards and Jagger deliver the punchline by dubbing over the...