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LONDON: Lord Patten, the chairman of the BBC Trust, is to deliver the Royal Television Society’s (RTS) Fleming Memorial Lecture at the Royal Institution of Great Britain on July 6. His lecture, The BBC: Old Values, New Technologies, will set out …

NEW YORK: This summer, EPIX is launching the original documentary The Captains, focused on the Star Trek franchise, as the centerpiece to its Shatnerpalooza programming event, which will feature a marathon of William Shatner’s movie and TV projects. Shatnerpalooza will …

BURBANK: The movie My Babysitter’s a Vampire, which was produced by Fresh TV and distributed by FremantleMedia Enterprises (FME), is set to premiere on Disney Channel on June 10, ushering in a series that is scheduled to air on June 27. …

NEW YORK: Univision Communications, which is planning to launch three new networks—devoted to sports, news and novelas—has unveiled a broad slate of original content for the 2011-2012 season, including a new strand of documentaries and additional co-pros with Venevision Productions. …

LONDON, May 19: RDF Television’s hit Shipwrecked is set to return to the U.K.’s Channel 4 with a new 15×1-hour series slated for a late 2011 broadcast. After a two-year hiatus, the show’s eighth season will strand contestants in the …

LOS ANGELES: James Cameron’s Academy Award-winning blockbuster Titanic will be theatrically re-released in 3D next year, in time for the 100th anniversary of the ship’s sinking. Paramount Pictures, Twentieth Century Fox and Lightstorm Entertainment jointly announced the re-release of the film, …

TORONTO: The summer schedule of Global features a number of Canadian original productions, including Combat Hospital and Rookie Blue. Combat Hospital (formerly known as The Hot Zone) looks at the lives of resident doctors and nurses at a hospital in …

LOS ANGELES: MTV Latin America has started production on its second telenovela format, Popland, which tells the story of one girl’s journey from small-town life to the big-city world. The series will be shot on set and on location in …

CHICAGO: Janson Media has scored a distribution deal with the U.K.’s Crossing Borders Films to release the feature documentary Crossing Borders to worldwide TV, DVD, VOD and new-media markets. The film follows four Moroccan and four American university students as …

NEW YORK: Syfy has come on board as the U.S. broadcast partner for seasons one and two of Prodigy Pictures’ supernatural drama Lost Girl, with Canada’s Showcase launching the second season this fall. Produced by Prodigy Pictures in association with …