LOS ANGELES, June 21: Lifetime has ordered a two-hour special from the producers of Laguna Beach about four twenty-something women taking part in a karaoke competition in Southern California. Go Go Luckey Productions, the team behind MTV’s Laguna Beach and ...

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BURBANK/DULLES, June 21: AOL Kids’ KOL service is working with DIC Entertainment to co-produce a children’s programming block that is launching on CBS this fall. KOL's Saturday Morning Secret Slumber Party on CBS launches September 16. KOL and DIC will ...

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LONDON, June 21: After a 42-year-run, the weekly music show Top of the Pops has been axed, with its last episode set to air July 30. Noting that the series “no longer occupies the central role it once did,” the ...

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NEW YORK, June 21: Seven of the world’s top advertising agencies have announced a plan to mark the 25th anniversary of the first AIDS diagnosis by releasing a series of non-profit spots to be aired on December 1, World AIDS ...

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LONDON, June 21: ITV has picked up the rights to three new U.S. network dramas: Smith, The Black Donnellys and Raines. Warner Bros. International Television’s Smith for CBS is a crime drama from John Wells Productions featuring Ray Liotta as ...

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NEW YORK, June 21: After 44 years, Dan Rather and CBS News are parting ways, with the anchor said to be mulling an offer to do a weekly series at the cable network HDNet. Rather was the anchor of the ...

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NEW YORK, June 21: Licensing 2006 International opened at the Jacob K. Javits Convention Center in New York City yesterday with expectations of more than 23,000 attendees from 100-plus markets. Licensed products represent $175 billion in retail sales worldwide, according ...

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NEW YORK, June 21: Time Warner is looking into whether company funds were used by its CFO, Wayne Pace, to buy gifts for a woman accused of operating a high-priced prostitution ring. The alleged madam, Andrea Schwartz, told two New ...

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LOS ANGELES/MEXICO CITY, June 21: The Televisa-led consortium of investors looking to acquire U.S. Hispanic broadcaster Univision missed THE bid deadline, the New York Times reports, in part because Carlyle Group dropped out at the last minute in a dispute ...

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NEW YORK, June 21: A PricewaterhouseCoopers report released today predicts that the global media and entertainment industry will rise at a 6.6 percent compound annual growth rate (CAGR) to $1.8 trillion in 2010. PricewaterhouseCoopers' Global Entertainment and Media Outlook: 2006-2010 ...

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