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BEIJING: Metan Development Group’s Hello! Hollywood, a Mandarin-language magazine program, has expanded its weekly format from a half-hour to 45 minutes. The 45-minute version was unveiled this month. The program first launched in China in 2009 on 10 stations and …

PASADENA: With plans to increase its programming by 32 percent for the year, Oxygen has lined up a number of new and returning series for its 2011 grid. The docu-series All About Aubrey follows the ups and downs of former …

SANTA MONICA: This June, GSN will launch an updated version of the popular mystery-word game show format Lingo, produced by ALL3MEDIA’s ZOO Productions and hosted by comedian Bill Engvall. The ALL3MEDIA International format first aired on GSN from 2002 to 2007 …

NEW YORK/LONDON/BARCELONA: 41 Entertainment has signed up Morningstar in Canada, Swen Entertainment in Brazil and Televix in Latin America for the premiere rights to the HeathCliff: Bad Kitty film. Morningstar, Swen and Televix were granted exclusive broadcast and home entertainment …

LONDON: Channel 5 has commissioned Tigress Productions, an Endemol company, to produce Red Sea Jaws, a documentary about the recent shark attacks in Sharm el-Sheikh. Red Sea Jaws pieces together the events that unfolded over five days when last month the …

NEW YORK: Writers Jane Espenson and Drew Z. Greenberg, who previously worked together on Caprica and Buffy the Vampire Slayer, will write the pilot development script for a potential U.S. version of the classic British detective show Randall and Hopkirk (Deceased) …

TORONTO: Cave of Forgotten Dreams, Werner Herzog’s 3D film of the oldest known pictorial creations of humankind, will be screened at History Makers on January 28. For the film, Herzog was given exclusive access to the Chauvet Cave in Southern …

PHILADELPHIA: Comcast is working with the John F. Kennedy (JFK) Presidential Library and Museum to make a slate of historical content available on demand, beginning today and running through February 25. Marking the 50th anniversary of the Kennedy presidency, the …

NEW YORK: Syfy, which has upped Mark Stern to president of original programming, is partnering with Mark Burnett and Seth Jarrett to develop a new reality series about paranormal activity in schools and universities across the U.S. School Spirits from Jarrett …

NEW YORK: World Screen has unveiled its NATPE Preview multimedia site, delivering a video interview with Adriana Cisneros and a feature on the original programming coming out of the thriving U.S. cable market, along with a number of other interviews, …