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LOS ANGELES: Zach Anner and Kristina Kuzmic, the winners of Your OWN Show: Oprah’s Search for the Next TV Star, are launching their new series on OWN: The Oprah Winfrey Network in December. More than 15,000 people auditioned for the …

SILVER SPRING: SCIENCE is celebrating the 45th anniversary of Star Trek with the November 30 world premiere of Trek Nation, a two-hour tribute following creator Gene Roddenberry’s son, Rod, as he explores the franchise’s enduring appeal. Trek Nation, produced for …

PARIS: Novavision has firmed up a co-production deal with Sri Lanka’s MTV channel for 200 locally produced episodes of its new format The QuizZz, which will be launched to the Asian market at the upcoming ATF. The QuizZz, filmed in …

UDAIPUR: India’s Eden Animation Studio has signed a strategic agreement with the U.K.’s Big Giggles to co-produce and exploit multiple animated projects for TV, home video and multiplatform licensing. The deal with Big Giggles will see the creation of animated …

LONDON: A+E Networks UK has appointed Anna Priest, a former BBC exec, as its new VP of marketing and communications. Priest will report to Tom Davidson, the managing director of A+E Networks UK, and will be responsible for the marketing …

NEW YORK: For the tenth year in a row, World Screen has produced The International Emmy Almanac for the International Academy of Television Arts & Sciences. The International Emmy Almanac is an annual publication that showcases the activities of the …

LONDON: ITV has reported revenues that were up 4 percent in the first nine months of the year, with net advertising revenue for the group growing by 2 percent in the same period, driven by the broadcast of this year’s …

LONDON: The U.K. public finds TV to be the most trusted media outlet, according to a new YouGov survey commissioned by PBS, which also found that more than half of British respondents say the phone-hacking scandal has damaged their trust …

NEW YORK: The actor, director and producer Jason Priestley has been lined up to host the 39th International Emmy Awards, taking place November 21 in New York, to be joined on stage by a number of celebrity presenters.  This is …

PREMIUM: After concentrating for many years on the aim of producing feature films to compete with Hollywood output, European authorities tasked with supporting production are re-focusing on how to create a flow of high-quality television programming to compete with the …