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LOS ANGELES: TV Guide Network has greenlit its first original reality docu-soap, The Nail Files, from the team behind the mega-hit Jersey Shore. Created and produced by Sally Ann Salsano and 495 Productions, The Nail Files is set in a …

President, Primetime Entertainment, NBC and Universal Media Studios The veteran programming executive and producer Angela Bromstad oversees creative affairs for all scripted entertainment programming aired on NBC and produced by Universal Media Studios for NBC and other major broadcasters. Besides …

LOS ANGELES: Entertainment One (eOne) has secured a three-year broadcasting deal in the U.S. for Peppa Pig with Nick Jr. Peppa Pig is slated to make its U.S. debut in early 2011 on Nick Jr. as a scheduled half-hour format. …

UCHAREST: Severina Pascu, currently the chief financial officer of UPC Romania, will take over as managing director as of January 1, 2011, in place of Jack Mikaloff, who is retiring at the end of the year. Mikaloff become the managing director …

LONDON: ALL3MEDIA International has sold more than 50 hours of programming across multiple genres for broadcast on Sweden’s SVT. The deal includes SVT renewing Midsomer Murders. The 14th installment of the hit detective show will debut later this year with …

NEW YORK: Steve Stark, executive producer of NBC’s The Event, discusses the origins of the show and where it’s headed in this video interview.   Stark actually kept the script for its pilot in his desk drawer for more than …

LONDON: Sky Living HD has picked up MGM’s TV drama Teen Wolf, based on the feature film of the same name from the 1980s, to air in the U.K. in 2011. Teen Wolf is produced by, and will also air …

NEW YORK: The U.S. Hispanic channel V-me is to become a nationally rated network of The Nielsen Company starting January 2011. The three-year-old network is now available in 10.2 million households in the U.S. The channel recently announced a new …

SYDNEY: Through a new deal with Yahoo!7, more than 20 titles from BBC Worldwide Australia are headed to the catch-up service PLUS7. The ongoing deal will see future BBC content air on the service as well, either in catch-up mode following broadcast …

STOCKHOLM: Modern Times Group (MTG) has struck a deal with LG Electronics in the Nordic region for its Viasat OnDemand pay-TV services to be available directly on all LG TV sets that are  enabled with NetCast functionality. The Viasat OnDemand …