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NEW YORK/LONDON/BARCELONA: 41 Entertainment (41e) has taken on the global television and home-video distribution rights for the upcoming CGI animated film HeathCliff: Bad Kitty, based on the classic George Gately comic strip. The film will feature celebrity voice talents and …

UNIVERSAL CITY: The daytime drama Days of Our Lives, which is in its 45th season on NBC, has been picked up through the 2012-13 season. The show first premiered as a half-hour drama in 1965 and expanded into an hour-long …

CHICAGO: For the third quarter, Playboy Enterprises’ net loss increased to $27.4 million from $1.1 million last year as a result of impairment and restructuring charges totaling $25.8 million. Excluding impairment charges, the company’s net loss was up to $1.6 …

NEW YORK: Time Warner Cable has unveiled Look Back, a free feature that gives digital video customers the ability to go back, within a three-day window, and watch shows they missed without setting their DVR. Look Back will launch with …

TORONTO: Corus Entertainment has announced a March 1, 2011, Canadian launch for OWN: The Oprah Winfrey Network, which will debut in the U.S. on January 1. Prior to the launch, W Network and VIVA will air blocks of OWN programming, …

NEW YORK: Just two episodes in and AMC has already given a 13-episode second-season order for The Walking Dead. Since its October 31 debut, the show has broken ratings records, with the series reaching more adults 18 to 49 than …

LONDON/LOS ANGELES: RDA TV has acquired 88 half-hour episodes of the boxing and martial arts series Monster Knockout from Mighty Oak Entertainment for worldwide distribution outside of the U.S. The show features champions of combat sports such as Mike Tyson, …

LONDON: Lena: Love of My Life, an adaptation of the Endemol Argentina and Telefe long-running telenovela Don Juan y su Bella Dama, has been commissioned by ZDF in Germany. Lena will be Endemol’s first daily drama series in Germany. The …

NEW YORK: Reduced revenues from So You Think You Can Dance and American Idol, and restructuring charges at 19 Entertainment, resulted in CKx, Inc. posting a third-quarter loss of $2.4 million, as compared with the year-ago profit of $11.2 million. Total revenues at …

NEW YORK: Lea Thompson, who has been on a worldwide tour celebrating the 25th anniversary of Back to the Future, is starring in the new Hallmark Movie Channel original The Cabin, premiering summer 2011. Thompson stars alongside Steven Brand (Covert …