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NEW YORK: Goodnight for Justice, starring Luke Perry, marked the first original premiere of 2011 for Hallmark Movie Channel and was the highest rated debut in network history. The TV movie earned a 1.5 household rating for its January 29 …

LOS ANGELES: The half-hour series Elizabeth Stanton’s Great Big World has been cleared by Fox owned-and-operated stations in New York, Los Angeles and Chicago, among other U.S. markets. The educational/informational series is set for fall 2011. It features Stanton visiting …

NEW YORK: The Battle for Marjah is a new documentary, set to air exclusively on HBO, that details the story of the U.S. marines’ battle to liberate the Afghanistan town of Marjah, which had been under a Taliban stronghold. Journalist …

LONDON/ALBUQUERQUE: The eight-part drama The Kennedys will make its world premiere on ReelzChannel in the U.S., after HISTORY and Showtime decided to pass on the biopic, while the U.K. debut will be on the HISTORY channel. The movie event recreates …

LONDON: Oliver Ellis and Helen Howells, former senior executives at Target Entertainment, have formed a new children’s production and rights company, Hoho Entertainment. Hoho Entertainment already has a development slate in place, with a first production to be announced in …

SILVER SPRING: Investigation Discovery (ID) has a slate of five new originals to launch in February and March, following on the network’s record-breaking ratings success in January. The six-part series Sins and Secrets will make its world premiere on February 17. …

NEW YORK: Time Warner’s 2010 revenues gained 6 percent to $26.9 billion, while quarterly revenues rose 8 percent to $7.8 billion, delivering a net income of $769 million. “Time Warner had an outstanding year in 2010," said Jeffrey Bewkes, chairman …

LONDON: Bedlam Productions, the producer behind the Oscar-nominated movie The King’s Speech, has appointed LillaVision to represent its slate of non-scripted and scripted TV projects. Bedlam Productions is led by Simon Breen, Simon Egan and Gareth Unwin. The London-based indie …

NEW YORK: Elizabeth Guider, most recently the editor of The Hollywood Reporter, is set to begin contributing feature articles to World Screen. Guider was editor of The Hollywood Reporter for three years, following 18 years at Variety. The veteran journalist …

OTTAWA: CBC/Radio-Canada has unveiled a five-year strategy for what viewers can expect from the public broadcaster, under the banner "Everyone, Every way." “We want to be recognized by Canadians as the leader in expressing Canadian culture and enriching democracy on …