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FOX’s Liguori: “Broadcast Television Needs a Jolt”
NEW YORK, May 15: FOX’s 2008-09 season, which is set to feature J.J. Abrams’ Fringe and Joss Whedon’s Dollhouse, among other new shows, will deliver the “jolt” that broadcast television needs, said the network’s chairman of entertainment, Peter Liguori.
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CBS Shells Out $1.8 Billion for CNET
NEW YORK/SAN FRANCISCO, May 15: CBS Corporation is further expanding its new-media business, reaching a deal to acquire CNET Networks for $1.8 billion, in a deal that will make it one of the ten most popular Internet companies in the U.S., with a combined 54 million unique users per month, and approximately 200 million users worldwide.
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ITV Releases Q1 Results, Acquires Scandinavian Producer
LONDON, May 15: ITV plc, which today announced the acquisition of Scandinavian producer Silverback, has released its first quarter results, with group revenues up 3 percent to £492 million, led by gains in its global content division.
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FOX Announces 24 Prequel
BURBANK, May 15: FOX has announced plans to air a two-hour prequel for 24 ahead of the seventh-season launch, which was disrupted this year as a result of the writers’ strike.
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Univision Showcases 2008-09 Lineup
NEW YORK, May 15: At a presentation in New York City, U.S. Hispanic broadcasting giant Univision unveiled its 2008-09 programming slate and touted its 360-degree marketing solutions for advertisers.
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CBS in Deal with lonelygirl15 Creators
NEW YORK/LOS ANGELES, May 15: CBS has partnered with EQAL, founded by the creators of the hit online series lonelygirl15 and KateModern, to create and produce multiplatform television, online and mobile entertainment for existing and future CBS TV shows.
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Disney-ABC in French Pay-TV Deal
CANNES/LONDON, May 15: Disney-ABC International Television has concluded a multi-year, multi-window content agreement with Canal+ to bring a selection of its current and upcoming movies and series to the French pay-TV platform’s viewers via transactional VOD, pay-per-view and pay-TV windows.
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Revenue Drops at Jetix Europe
AMSTERDAM/LONDON, May 15: Revenues at Jetix Europe for the six months ended March 31, 2008, fell 19 percent to 71.2 million euros, while net profit was flat at 20.6 million euros.
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FME Inks Deal with New British Indie
LONDON, May 15: FremantleMedia Enterprises (FME) has reached a first-look TV development deal with Origin, a new British independent production outfit set up by David Thompson, previously the head of BBC Films.
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FIC, Fox Television Studios in Deal for English-Language Drama
LOS ANGELES, May 15: Fox International Channels and Fox Television Studios have teamed for Mental, a show to be produced in Latin America in English for the U.S. and the international markets.
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VH1 Acquires The Bachelor Library
SANTA MONICA, May 15: VH1 has secured a licensing agreement with Warner Bros. Domestic Television Distribution for the full library of the hit reality dating franchise The Bachelor.
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Globo, Telemundo Unveil Co-Pro Details at L.A. Screenings
LOS ANGELES, May 15: Globo TV International and Telemundo Internacional will jointly handle sales of the version of the Brazilian novela hit The Clone that is being produced for the U.S. Hispanic market.
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International Networks to Rep STAR’s Indian Channels in U.S.
CENTENNIAL/HONG KONG, May 15: Comcast’s International Networks, an aggregator of multi-ethnic programming in the U.S., has struck a deal with News Corporation’s STAR Group to represent five of its Indian channels to MSOs throughout the U.S.
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ACI Showcases Jack Hunter Series
LOS ANGELES, May 15: American Cinema International (ACI) is looking to seal Latin American deals on its Jack Hunter series at the L.A. Screenings, with the first few episodes available for buyers to view for the first time.
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SOAPnet Bolsters Sunday Night Movie Franchise
BURBANK, May 15: SOAPnet has picked up six new movies from Disney-ABC Domestic Television and Twentieth Television for its Sunday Night Movie franchise, kicking off with the broadcast of My Date with the President’s Daughter on May 18 at 10 p.m.
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Lifetime Inks Agreement with Cox Communications
NEW YORK, May 15: Lifetime Networks has closed a wide-ranging agreement for Cox Communications to launch all of the company’s new multiplatform networks.
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Comedy Central Unveils Summer Lineup
NEW YORK, May 15: Comedy Central will continue to roll out new series and specials, as well as returning hits, across its summer schedule, including the original variety series The Gong Show with Dave Attell.
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Dive Olly Dive! Joins PBS Sprout Lineup
LOS ANGELES, May 15: PBS KIDS Sprout has secured the U.S. broadcast rights to the CGI-animated preschool series Dive Olly Dive! from Taffy Entertainment.
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Parenting Format Secures Renewal in Russia
LONDON, May 15: ALL3MEDIA’s positive-parenting format I Want My Mummy has been renewed by CTC in Russia, bringing the total number of episodes produced around the world to more than 100.
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Televisa Picks-Up Free-TV Rights for Kids’ Series
PARIS, May 15: Taffy Entertainment, in partnership with its Latin American agent Hola Entertainment, has sold the free-TV rights in Mexico for the animated series Growing Up Creepie and The Fantastic Four to Televisa.
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Nat Geo Scores New Broadcast Deals in Spain, Portugal
LONDON, May 15: National Geographic Television International (NGTI) has secured broadcast deals with RTP in Portugal and La Sexta in Spain for a range of its factual programming, spanning the wildlife, science and history genres.
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Cast in Place for New Lifetime Original Movie
LOS ANGELES, May 15: Mena Suvari and Golden Globe-winner Matthew Modine are set to star in the new Lifetime original movie tentatively _title_d Sex & Lies in Sin City, _base_d on the true story of the death of a wealthy casino heir, to premiere in September.
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BKN to Release New Films
LONDON, May 15: BKN International will deliver two new films later this spring that are _base_d on its animated kids’ properties Zorro: Generation Z and Dork Hunters from Outer Space.
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Telescreen to Rep Chapman’s Roary the Racing Car in Benelux
LONDON, May 15: Chapman Entertainment has appointed Telescreen as the licensing agent to represent its new animated preschool property Roary the Racing Car in the Benelux region.
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Endemol Taps Di Gioacchino for Branded Entertainment Role
HILVERSUM, May 15: Endemol Group has appointed Marco Di Gioacchino to the newly created role of executive director of branded entertainment, _base_d in London.
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Disney Consumer Products Names New Chief for Greater China
SHANGHAI, May 15: Guenther Hake has been appointed to lead Disney Consumer Products Greater China and has been promoted to senior VP and managing director of Disney Consumer Products and Walt Disney Studios Home Entertainment (WDSHE).
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New CEO at MGM Networks Latin America
CORAL GABLES, May 15: MGM Networks Latin America has tapped its COO, Melvin Pérez, to succeed Gustavo Pupo-Mayo as its new CEO.
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