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NEW YORK: BIO has greenlit a 10×1-hour docu-series following Bristol Palin, the daughter of former U.S. VP candidate Sarah Palin, as she moves in with her friends Chris and Kyle Massey in Los Angeles. Bristol and actor Kyle Massey met …

LOS ANGELES: The animated comedies Family Guy and The Cleveland Show have been picked up for new seasons on FOX, returning to the network’s Sunday night lineup. Family Guy has been renewed for a tenth season. The series, from creator/exec …

KOLKATA: Discovery Networks Asia-Pacific has added a Bengali feed for its flagship channel in India, making it the only network in the country to be available in five languages. Discovery Channel in India is now available to subscribers in English, …

SYDNEY: The live-action drama series My Place, which comes from Australian Children’s Television Foundation, has been picked up by a range of broadcasters, including ABC TV in Australia and RTP in Portugal. The show is based on a classic Australian …

NEW YORK: Coinciding with the 150th anniversary of the U.S. Civil War, HISTORY has lined up a week-long programming event, which kicks off with the two-hour feature Gettysburg. Executive produced by Tony and Ridley Scott, Gettysburg looks to present the …

WESTON: Florida-based distributor World Media Pictures, led by former Dori Media and RCTV Internacional executive Juan Antonio Fernández, will be at the L.A. Screenings with a slate of novelas, light entertainment, documentaries and more. The novelas on offer next week …

SAN FRANCISCO: The Women and Girls Lead campaign is a new public media initiative from the Independent Television Service (ITVS) that uses independent documentary films to tell stories that support female leadership and development. The initiative from ITVS is being …

TORONTO: Hot Docs has announced the winners of its 2011 documentary festival, with nine awards presented to Canadian and international filmmakers. The Best Canadian Feature award was presented to Family Portrait in Black and White, which is directed by Julia Ivanova …

LOS ANGELES/SINGAPORE: Jim Gianopulos, the chairman and CEO of Fox Filmed Entertainment, will deliver the keynote address at the Film Finance Forum during the inaugural ScreenSingapore, slated to take place this June. Gianopulos’s keynote, on June 7 at the Capella Singapore Hotel …

LONDON: The preschool channel JimJam has snapped up Hello Kitty and Denver: The Last Dinosaur. JimJam picked up three Hello Kitty specials from Sanrio, which will begin broadcasting in the spring on the channel’s Italian feed. As part of the deal, …