DANCE MOMS Returns for an 8th Season on Lifetime

Collins Avenue Productions ("Collins Avenue"), part of KEW MEDIA GROUP INC. ("KEW" or the "Company") (TSX:KEW and KEW.WT), is pleased to announce the return of one of its most popular reality television series, Dance Moms, for Lifetime Network in the U.S. DANCE MOMS is one of KEW's largest single production contracts and longest running shows.

Dance Moms follows the lives of young dancers and their mothers as they compete to become the best in the Abby Lee Miller's Ultimate Dance Competition. After completing a prison sentence last year, studio owner and DANCE MOMS star Abby Lee Miller was diagnosed with non-Hodgkin's lymphoma. Season 8 begins with a one-hour special, Dance Moms: Resurrection, which follows Abby as she rebuilds her dance company for a new generation of dancers while she battles a cancer that has left her wheelchair-bound.

Now in its eighth season, and with a total of eight spin-offs, Collins Avenue has produced over 200 hours of the hit series, which has broken Lifetime's rating records and can be viewed in over 14 territories worldwide. DANCE MOMS has also inspired the careers of many of today's hottest dance talents including Maddie Ziegeler, whose music video performances have garnered over 4 billion views and boasts a social media following of over 12 million people worldwide.

Dance Moms joins Collins Avenue's diverse non-scripted slate including Best House on the Block for DIY Network in the U.S. and The Devil Next Door, a six-part docuseries featuring ex-members of the secretive North Carolina-based World of Faith Fellowship Church as they reveal the abuse they allegedly endured at the hands of the church for A&E Network in the U.S.

Dance Moms is produced by Collins Avenue, with Jeff Collins ( Dance Moms, THE DRAMA QUEEN ), Bryan Stinson ( Dance Moms, SO SHARP ) and Michael Hammond ( Dance Moms, HELL'S KITCHEN ), along with Gena McCarthy, Brie Miranda Byrant and Kimberly Chessler of Lifetime. A+E Networks handles global sales for Dance Moms.

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