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NEW YORK/BURBANK: FOX’s 2011-2012 season features four new comedies and three new dramas, including J.J. Abrams’ Alcatraz and Tim Kring’s Touch starring Kiefer Sutherland. Announcing the new schedule, Peter Rice, chairman of entertainment at Fox Networks Group, noted, “Nothing impacts culture …

HALLANDALE: The second season of The Way I Love You from Frecuencia Latina International has gone into production and is set to be finished by August. Forty hour-long episodes are slated for production, with Adriana Lorenzón leading the writing team; …

TORONTO: DHX Media’s That’s So Weird! has been greenlit for third-season production for Canadian broadcaster YTV, which has just ordered a new 13-episode run. The show was nominated for a Gemini Award and a Canadian Comedy Award in 2010, and currently …

LONDON: WWE Inc.’s WWE Raw and WWE SmackDown are set to take place in Mexico at the Palacio de los Deportes Arena in Mexico City on October 15 and October 16, respectively. The impending broadcasts will make Mexico one of only four …

CANNES: Golden Network Asia has signed multiple distribution deals for the Malaysian animated feature SeeFood during its outing at the Marche du Film in Cannes. The deals are worth more than $2 million. Among those to have signed on for …

NEW YORK: Karoline Spodsberg, the managing director of Banijay International, talks about the company’s European strategy, its investment in new content and its goals for the months ahead.   After building a broad network of production companies in Europe, Banijay Entertainment, …

SYDNEY: Freehand Productions has been commissioned by XYZnetworks’ LifeStyle FOOD channel to produce an eight-episode docu-series, Planet Cake. The 8×30-minute show will follow the daily operations of Planet Cake, an Australian cake business run by Paris Cutler. Known as "The …

BEVERLY HILLS/SANTA MONICA: Starting in June, Netflix members in the U.S. can access hundreds of movies from the Miramax library, including classics such as Pulp Fiction, The English Patient and Good Will Hunting. The multi-year agreement with Netflix marks the …

NEW YORK: NBC’s new crop of shows for the 2011-2012 season includes six dramas and six comedies from the likes of Steven Spielberg, Lorne Michaels, Brian Grazer, Tom Werner, John Grisham and Peter Berg, among others, as the network looks to …

LONDON: The Nordic talk show Skavlan has found a new home on BBC Entertainment, which is adding the show to its summer schedule. The series has been airing since 2009 in the Nordic region on NRK and SVT. Skavlan joins the BBC …