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LONDON: Shine Group has named Claudia Danser the managing director of Shine Network, the Shine Group division responsible for formats such as MasterChef, The Biggest Loser, One Born Every Minute, Got To Dance and The Magicians. Ben Hall, the current …

NEW YORK: HISTORY in the U.S. has ordered ten episodes of Real Deal from Zodiak USA (Secret Millionaire, Wife Swap), to premiere on the channel on November 25. Real Deal focuses on the dramatic interaction between buyers and sellers as …

HONG KONG: Quality content, access to capital and its parent company’s distribution prowess will be the keys to increasing NBCUniversal’s revenues from outside the U.S., which currently stand at just 8 percent, Jeff Shell said at CASBAA in Hong Kong …

SÃO PAULO: Globo TV International’s telenovela India: A Love Story was picked up by Pink TV in Slovenia and debuted on October 14. India: A Love Story, which has already been sold to 90 countries, is a drama that deals …

HONG KONG: There are now 420 million multichannel TV connections in the Asia Pacific, more than the rest of the world combined, CASBAA announced at its annual convention, which officially kicked off in Hong Kong today. The Cable & Satellite Broadcasting Association of Asia’s …

SINGAPORE: The Media Development Authority has issued a new set of guidelines governing contracts between pay-TV platforms and subscribers that include a limit on how much service providers can charge customers for early subscription terminations. The new guidelines go into …

EL SEGUNDO: The Fox Networks bouquet of channels will remain on DirecTV after the two managed to reach a new carriage deal, narrowly averting a programming blackout. More than two dozen Fox cable networks, including FX and a number of …

LOS ANGELES: Third-quarter home-entertainment spending in the U.S. was up 5 percent, marking the first increase in figures since 2008’s first quarter, according to a new report from Digital Entertainment Group. Total spending in the U.S. on home entertainment reached …

LOS ANGELES: FX has placed a second-season order for 13 new episodes of the Ryan Murphy and Brad Falchuk series American Horror Story. From Twentieth Century Fox Television, American Horror Story is off to a solid start for the network, …

LOS ANGELES: FOX’s Animation Domination lineup is to include an additional nine episodes of Bob’s Burgers, set to premiere in midseason. Bob’s Burgers, a Twentieth Century Fox Television production, follows a third-generation restauranteur as he runs his own burger joint, …