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World Screen Weekly, June 20, 2006 ORIGIN: The series is based on an original idea by Deborah and David Michel. TV SHOW: Jay Jay the Jet Plane is a CG series with 90 12-minute episodes ready and more in production. …

World Screen Weekly, June 22, 2006 President Solid Entertainment Before setting up their own distribution companies, most people have had years of experience selling programs at other firms. Richard Propper’s career path, however, while very successful, has been quite unconventional. …

World Screen Weekly, June 22, 2006 CHANNEL NAME: TVI — 
Televisão Independente, Portugal LAUNCH DATE: February 20, 1993 OWNERSHIP: Grupo Media Capital, whose major shareholders are Grupo PRISA and the RTL Group, each with a 33-percent stake. DESCRIPTION: TVI is …

TORONTO, June 22: CBC International Sales is offering for presale two investigative documentaries about September 11, 2001, for broadcasters looking for titles to commemorate the fifth anniversary of the attacks. Al Qaeda War: The Secret History of 9/11, by producer …

PALISADES PARK, June 23: Alfred Haber Distribution has been appointed the international distributor for Dick Clark Productions’ Celebrity Debut, which aired on ABC during the May Sweeps. Hosted by Beverly Hills 90210’s Brian Austin Green, the program mines early footage …

SANTA MONICA, June 23: GSN will launch a celebrity tabloid-inspired game show, StarFace, on August 1. Hosted by former child star Danny Bonaduce, the game puts pits three contestants against one another, putting their celebrity knowledge to the test in …

NEW YORK, June 23: HBO will is set to air the cult hit The Aristocrats— in which Penn Jillette and Paul Provenza invite one-hundred comedians to tell their own version of “the world’s dirtiest joke”—on July 26. The film, which …

SYDNEY, June 23: Following intense criticism from legislators, Australia’s Network Ten has pulled the plug on Big Brother—Adults Only, its late-night edition of the reality show. TEN said the Big Brother franchise overall has been out-performing last year’s edition, and …

BURBANK, June 23: CBS’s Tuesday Night Book Club has been pulled from CBS’s schedule after just two episodes. The June 13 premiere delivered an audience of just 5 million, dropping to about 4 million the week after. The show follows …

NEW YORK, June 23: Sundance Channel has ordered two new original factual series for launch next year—one from the producers of The Staircase and the other from Taxicab Confessions’ Gantz brothers—and has pre-bought 12 documentaries for its weekly block DOCday. …