Eight episodes of “Wolfpack of Reseda” sponsored by Kia will unfold beginning Thursday.

In a first of sorts for MySpace and Fox Digital Entertainment, the pair are debuting the first of an eight-episode scripted series on Thursday called Wolfpack of Reseda, described as “darkly hilarious.”

The show, consisting of eight-minute episodes, is produced in conjunction with Kia Motors America, which will be the one and only sponsor with its Soul urban passenger vehicle featured prominently in the show.

It’s the first foray into creating a wholly original show for the Internet from Fox Digital Entertainment, a unit of 20th Century Fox that builds applications and mobile games such as Glee Karaoke, as well as an iPhone game based on the movie Avatar and a version of Angry Birds based on the film Rio.

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AOL’s Huffington Post Media Group will later this year launch the Huffington Post Streaming Network, which will offer live video featuring discussions about HuffPo stories and comments about them, company executives unveiled here on Thursday.

The streaming video service on Thursday announced Paul the Male Matchmaker, an original mocumentary series from Sex and the City’s Liz Tuccillo and Mad Men’s Paul Bartholomew.

The 10-episode series, from Warner Bros. Television Group’s Studio 2.0, revolves around a hopeless male matchmaker who has little to no affection for women but is determined to help them find a soul mate.

Say what you will about The Huffington Post and AOL, their merger has given HuffPo the resources to conquer the online news aggregation business. Today HuffPo dropped some big stats about the year since its acquisition, most importantly a 47% growth of monthly unique visitors to 36.2 million. Next it’s aiming to take down CNN and the cable news industry with The Huffington Post Streaming Network,which will stream content live on the web for 12 hours a day.

Facebook just filed the preliminary prospectus for its long-awaited initial public offering (IPO).

As rumored, the company is seeking to raise $5 billion. If Facebook manages to raise this capital, it will be on a shortlist of biggest tech IPOs of all time.

Investment bank Morgan Stanley will act as lead underwriter, with Goldman Sachs and J.P. Morgan and others to take secondary positions. Shares are expected to hit the market in May.

For longtime followers of the social network, this is an exciting time and a culmination of the site’s eight-year rise from Mark Zuckerberg’s Harvard dorm room to world domination.

DANA POINT, Calif.—Martha Stewart Living Omnimedia Inc.’s deal with the Hallmark Channel will end this year, and the company is examining other outlets for its programming, including the Internet, President Lisa Gersh said.

The Internet allows the company to provide instructional videos and also serves as a product-sales outlet, which would make the site less dependent on advertising revenue to succeed. …

DANA POINT, Calif.—Online video site Hulu LLC is investing in the development of original content in part as a way to identify itself as a distinctive service amid an increasingly competitive marketplace, according to Chief Executive Jason Kilar.

“It is important that we deliver great content and stories that aren’t being told right now,” Mr. Kilar said Tuesday at the “Dive Into Media” conference …

At the D:Dive Into Media conference Tuesday, YouTube CEO Salar Kamangar gave his views on how the video marketplace is evolving both online and off. While much of the company’s efforts have been based on advertising — with some small portion of video-on-demand sales, Kamangar said his company could potentially create a service that could enable content providers to create their own subscription-based video offerings on the YouTube platform.