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NEW YORK: Adding to its roster of original series, USA Network has picked up the cop show Common Law, with 11 episodes being shot in New Orleans. Michael Ealy (The Good Wife, Californication), Warren Kole (The Chicago Code, 24) and …

LONDON: A number of deals have been firmed up from the Scorpion TV catalogue, with sales to Art Media in Russia, Turner in Latin America and Planete in Poland, among others. The science series The Brain Fitness Program and the …

NEW YORK: Global advertising rose 8.8 percent to $118 billion in the first quarter, according to Nielsen, with television advertising alone up 11.9 percent. According to the new Nielsen Global AdView Pulse report, television’s share of the global ad pie …

BURBANK: TVNZ has renewed its pact with Warner Bros. International Television Distribution for the free-TV rights to a slate of feature films and TV series, including this fall’s Person of Interest and 2 Broke Girls and the last two films …

SILVER SPRING: SCIENCE has slated the BBC’s Wonders of the Universe for a July debut in the U.S., with physicist and professor Brian Cox hosting the four-part series. Cox takes viewers on a journey into deep space by examining things …

LOS ANGELES: Suzanne Kolb has been appointed president of E! Entertainment, where she’ll report directly to Bonnie Hammer, the chairman of NBCUniversal Cable Entertainment and Cable Studios. Kolb had previously been the president of marketing, news and online for E! …

TEL AVIV: The Armoza Formats game show Still Standing has made its prime-time premiere in Spain on Antena 3, where it scored a 15.2-percent market share with its debut episode, 37-percent above the channel’s average. The series’ Spanish debut last …

WASHINGTON, D.C.: The leading U.S. Internet service providers (ISPs) have agreed to a new system of "Copyright Alerts" that will electronically notify subscribers if an account is being used to download pirated content, in an initiative backed by the Hollywood …

ROME: The 24-hour Italian-language channel Mediaset Italia has launched in the U.S., and is available for a monthly fee on Comcast Cable in select markets. The channel offers programming from Italy’s top services such as Canale 5, Italia 1 and …

SILVER SPRING: True Grime: Crime Scene Clean Up, which takes a look at the job of cleaning up messes left at crime scenes, has been added to the Investigation Discovery lineup. The world premiere is Tuesday, July 19, from 10 …