Yahoo ink deal to distribute 'Burning Love'

StillerYahoo has inked an offer to distribute the net series "Burning Love," from Paramount's Insurge Pictures and Ben Stiller's Red-colored Hour Digital. Project, that follows fireman Mark Orlando (Ken Marino) because he looks for an ideal lady, spoofs popular reality dating shows. Malin Akerman, Kristen Bell, Michael Ian Black, Ken Jeong, Adam Scott, Abigail Spencer, Natasha Leggero, Ryan Hansen, June Diane Raphael, Noureen DeWulf, Kerri Kenney and Janet Dover co-star. Erica Oyama composed the scripts that Marino helmed. Series bows this spring. "Burning Love" will launch included in the Comedy Funnel on Yahoo! Screen, the us dot com's video destination. Yahoo! draws in over 35 million unique site visitors per month. Stiller referred to the project as "Wiki Leaks, only more sexy and more amusing." "We like Red-colored Hour's make of comedy and we are excited to grow on Paramount's relationship with them within the digital space," stated Amy Powell, leader, Insurge Pictures. "'Burning Love' is simply plain amusing and that we can't wait to talk about it with audiences." "Burning Love" is executive created by Red-colored Hour's Stiller, Stuart Cornfeld and Mike Rosenstein, Abominable Pictures' Jonathan Stern, Ken Marino and Erica Oyama with Paramount's Insurge Pictures disbursing the project. Red-colored Hour formerly produced "Stiller and Meara" for Yahoo, in addition to Stillerstrong.com, and "Evening of 140 Tweets" for digital platforms. Shingle inked a 2-year start looking cope with Vital Digital Entertainment this year, to build up original digital entertainment qualities that may be released as live-action and animated webisodes or social-media games across a number of platforms, including mobile. Contact Marc Graser at marc.graser@variety.com