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SAN FRANCISCO: Parvati Shallow, winner of CBS’s Survivor: Micronesia, travels the world with only a smartphone and tablet in the third season of the CBS Interactive web series Around the World for Free, sponsored by AT&T. The million-dollar Survivor prize-winning …

ROME: The animated series Scan2Go is to debut on August 28 in Italy on the K2 channel following a deal between Switchover Media and Japanese distributor d-Rights. The space-adventure series is comprised of 52 half-hour episodes. It will air on …

NEW YORK: The News Corp. institutional investors suing the company over its acquisition of the Shine Group have submitted a revised complaint that includes the News of the World scandal, citing it as another example of "improper conduct." The suit was …

LOS ANGELES: Entertainment Studios has clinched a deal with NBC-owned television stations in several markets, including New York and Los Angeles, for the new daytime syndicated series We The People with Gloria Allred. The NBC-owned stations that will air the show include …

LONDON: FremantleMedia Enterprises (FME) has signed a slew of deals for its dramatic, factual and entertainment content with networks across Central and Eastern Europe, including the sale of The Sinking of the Laconia to HBO Central & Eastern Europe. The World …

TOKYO: Yukihiko Amagi has retired from his post as executive VP of NHK Enterprises (NEP), with Shigeru Aoki now taking on oversight of the Japanese public broadcaster’s international-distribution activities. Amagi had previously run NHK’s MICO (Media International Corporation) division, which was …

LONDON: Aidan Hansell has been named head of development at Impossible Pictures, where he will work to expand the company’s specialist-factual and factual-entertainment output. In his new post at the British indie best known for Walking with Dinosaurs, Hansell will …

SAN FRANCISCO: CBS Interactive today unveiled Star Trek Padd, an iPad app, available in some 120 territories, offering up an interactive database for the classic series. Available for $4.99 in the App Store, Star Trek Padd was developed in conjunction with …

TORONTO: Nine more episodes of the Canadian supernatural drama Lost Girl have been ordered by Showcase for season two, which premieres Sunday, September 4, at 9 p.m. Season two of the Prodigy Pictures production will be 22 episodes long. During …

NEW YORK: SpongeBob SquarePants is to invade the micro-blogging website Twitter with the debut of an original story, which will run from Tuesday, July 12, to Friday, July 15, leading up to the premiere of a new TV episode. The …