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TV Real Weekly, July 30, 2008 Head of Natural History/Universum Austrian Broadcasting Corporation (ORF) When the nominees for the News and Documentary Emmy Awards were announced earlier this month, among the contenders was Nature Tech. Broadcast on the Smithsonian Channel …

World Screen Weekly, July 31, 2008 COUNTRIES: U.K., Turkey, Russia, Romania, Poland, Ukraine and CIS territories LAUNCH DATE: December 2006 in the U.K. OWNERSHIP: The channel’s four founders and an investment consortium of private individuals called WTV Holdings Ltd. DISTRIBUTION: …

NEW YORK, August 1: ABI Research has concluded that there is “widespread reluctance” on the part of consumers to purchase a Blu-ray DVD player in the near future. The research firm surveyed 1,000 respondents and found that more than half …

LONDON/LOS ANGELES, August 1: ITV, through its U.S.-based production arm, Granada America, has acquired a 10-percent interest in Electric Farm Entertainment, the digital studio founded by Stan Rogow, Brent Friedman and Jeff Sagansky. Electric Farm is at work on a …

LONDON, August 1: Former Sparrowhawk Media executive Neil Ross Russell is taking over from Gill Pritchard as the new managing director for children’s at BBC Worldwide, effective August 11. Russell will be responsible for the cross-media, international exploitation across BBC …

BURBANK, August 1: Channing Dungey has been promoted to senior VP of drama development for ABC Studios, replacing Morgan Wandell, who has taken on a development role at Greg Berlanti Productions. Dungey’s career has involved the acquisition and development of …

LONDON, August 1: A new comedy-drama tentatively titled Mouth to Mouth has been commissioned from Avalon Television for BBC Three to launch later this year, with rollout on the web and mobile phones prior to its linear broadcast. The series …

NEW YORK, August 1: Thank You, Mr. President: Helen Thomas at the White House, which recounts the life and career of the woman dubbed the “First Lady of the Press,” will debut on August 18 as part of the HBO …

MADRID, August 1: Chello Multicanal, the Spain-based business unit of Chellomedia, is making its Portuguese kids’ channel, Canal Panda, available in Angola and Mozambique on MultiChoice Africa. Targeted at children aged 2 to 12, Canal Panda features a mix of …

NEW YORK, August 1: Diego’s Moonlight Rescue, an hour-long prime-time TV movie based on the hit preschool series Go, Diego, Go!, will be simulcast on Nickelodeon and its sister network Noggin on August 18 at 8 p.m. Beginning August 11, …