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The ONE launches today on AOL.

Today, we launched The ONE, a new daily series on AOL’s homepage, as part of the innovative new relaunch of AOL.com. It’s the first show in a while I’ve personally co-created (with my good friend and colleague Kathleen Grace), so I’m especially excited to give you all the first look.

With The ONE being presented on AOL’s homepage to their audience of 15 million unique U.S. visitors daily, this may be the biggest placement for a daily news series to date, and all of us at Next New Networks are honored to be the first company to launch an original series like this with AOL.

The ONE is all about cutting through the thousands of stories presented to you daily — on the web, on TV, in your friends’ Facebook and Twitter feeds — and giving you a great perspective on the one story that really matters. Today, November 8, we’re talking about the Conan launch on TBS, and brought on comedian and author Baratunde Thurston, digital director for The Onion — to talk about it. The series is directed and produced by Kathleen Grace, our head of production and creator of hit web series The Burg and The All-for-Nots, who co-created it with me.

New episodes will be live on AOL.com at 1pm daily, Monday through Friday, and feature a roster of great contributors from around the web. As part of Next New Networks’ partnership with AOL, we’re also distributing some of our most popular series on the site, from two of the biggest hits on the web, “The Key of Awesome” and “Auto-Tune the News,” which was featured on AOL’s homepage Friday, to Hungry Nation series like “Working Class Foodies” and Indy Mogul series like “Backyard FX” and “Beyond the Trailer.” We’re excited to get this in front of AOL’s massive audience, and to have our content available to many of their complementary destinations like Autoblog, Popeater, Stylelist, Engadget, and TechCrunch.

More info about the series is in our full press release with AOL. We hope you’ll check out the show, and stay tuned for more good things to come.