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Comcast International Media Group has licensed more than 450 hours of programming from E! since the Mipcom TV sales venue in October, Daily Variety reports. The U.K.’s Living Channel bought “Girls of the Playboy Mansion,” for example, while Sweden’s TV400…
RelativityReal has signed an international distribution agreement with Sony Pictures Television, Daily Variety reports. The agreement will allow both companies to co-distribute programming from RealityReal, the reality TV production unit of Ryan Kavanaugh’s Relativity Media, in countries outside the U.S.,…
Starz Media is creating an animated feature with video-game company Electronic Arts and is shopping the feature at MIP TV in Cannes this week, Daily Variety says. The feature, called “Dante’s Inferno,” is based on EA’s videogame, which in part…
The GLAAD Media Awards honored Tyra Banks and Suze Orman at its 20th annual ceremony in New York, Daily Variety reports. Banks received the Excellence in Media Award, which is given to individuals who increase the visibility and understanding of…
MIP TV is likely to begin today with international television trading marked by cost-cutting and co-productions, Daily Variety reports. “Finance being tight, clearly people are managing risk—one reason driving renewed interest in international co-productions,” Reed Midem Television Division acting director…
CBS is airing a humorous public service announcement promoting a sweepstakes where the winner gets a four-night trip to New York and a free colonoscopy, Daily Variety reports. “We don’t want PSAs to be part of the background noise,” CBS…
Kathleen Turner is joining Showtime’s “Californication,” playing Evan Handler’s outrageous boss, Entertainment Weekly reports. Her character will debut on the third season of the show next fall, the publication says. —Aimee Picchi
Nielsen Business Media denied a rumor that the company is considering closing “The Hollywood Reporter,” MediaPost reports. The company is said to be mulling folding Brandweek into either Adweek or Mediaweek as it copes with an advertising decline, the publication…
Local television newscasts continued to lose viewers in 2008, MediaPost reports, citing sweeps ratings data. Local newscasts lost viewers in three of the year’s four sweep periods, with ratings down 3.1% in Feb. 2008, 6.9% in July and 11.4% in…
“Without a Trace” star Roselyn Sanchez tells the New York Daily News that she hasn’t heard anything from its producers about the show being canceled. “Nobody has come to us to say anything about that … It would be ridiculous…