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LOS ANGELES:  Eye-candy aplenty, bigwigs behind the camera and a tilt toward comedy await the phalanxes of foreign TV program buyers as they hit town this weekend for the annual L.A. Screenings. The week-long viewing marathon is the first chance for …

LOS ANGELES: Warner Bros. has two new J.J. Abrams series to offer international buyers—FOX’s Alcatraz and CBS’s Person of Interest—in addition to his renewed show Fringe. Alcatraz, launching midseason, is a thriller centered on America’s most infamous prison, while Person of …

MONTEREY: SNL Kagan is forecasting strong growth prospects for IPTV, with subscriptions expected to grow from the 40 million reported at the end of 2010 to more than 70 million by 2014. SNL Kagan analyzed the top 75 media economies …

NEW YORK: Veteran NBCUniversal executive Dick Ebersol is exiting his post as chairman of the NBC Sports Group after a reported contract dispute.  Having spent four decades with the company, Ebersol has run NBCU’s sports broadcasting initiatives for the last 22 years. He …

NEW YORK/TEL AVIV: A Hebrew-language service for HISTORY HD has launched on YES in Israel, featuring programming such as The Universe, Ice Road Truckers, American Pickers and World War II Lost Films. HISTORY HD will broadcast 100 percent in high …

LOS ANGELES: Arnold Schwarzenegger’s planned return to entertainment is on hold in the wake of revelations of an out-of-wedlock child and his separation from Maria Shriver, with production stopped on The Governator animated series. "In light of recent events, A Squared …

LONDON: ITV Studios has named Hans Engholm as CEO of Silverback, its Scandinavian production company based in Stockholm. Engholm was most recently the creative director at Eyeworks, which is also in Stockholm, where he oversaw productions such as the Swedish version …

LONDON: UKTV has acquired two seasons of the U.S. crime drama Rizzoli & Isles from Warner Bros. International Television Distribution for its pay-TV channel Alibi. The series is based on Tess Gerritsen’s best-selling crime novels featuring Jane Rizzoli. Angie Harmon …

LOS ANGELES: Sarah Michelle Gellar’s new CW drama Ringer is among the new network shows CBS Studios International is launching to the international market. Set to air Tuesdays from 9 to 10 p.m., the show stars the Buffy alum as a woman …

NEW YORK: A fifth season of seven new episodes is in the works for the investigative reality series Destination Truth, slated to premiere on Syfy in early 2012. The paranormal series follows host Josh Gates as he explores the unknown …