Los Angeles - Fearnet, the horror genre video-on-demand joint venture between Comcast, Sony Pictures Television and Lionsgate, has signed "The View" co-host Whoopi Goldgerg to star in and executive produce "Stream," a new sci-fi Webisode series on the site, Variety reports. The series, made up of six five-minute weekly installments, will launch online and via video-on-demand on Jan. 15.

San Diego - Video-sharing site Veoh Networks announced on Thursday that it will add content from FEARnet, a horror and thriller website and video-on-demand joint venture between Comcast, Lionsgate and Sony Pictures. The companies will share advertising revenue generated from a FEARnet channel on Veoh slated to launch next month, which will offer feature films, celebrity interviews and coverage from top horror conventions. FEARnet is also developing a slate of new original programming for 2008 that will be featured on Veoh.

Los Angeles - Horror film director Sam Raimi ("Evil Dead," "Army of Darkness"), who also recently helmed the "Spider-Man" movies, has signed on to create short-form content for horror website FEARnet, the Associated Press reported. FEARnet, a joint venture between Comcast, Sony Pictures Television and Lionsgate, this week began airing the first series from Raimi's Ghost House Pictures, "Devil's Trade."