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NEW YORK/LOS ANGELES: The hour-long fundraising event Stand Up to Cancer is to be simulcast live and commercial-free on a host of broadcast and cable networks across the U.S. on September 10, with celebrity guests to include cancer survivors Michael …

NEW YORK: Academy Award-winner Alex Gibney has adapted Lawrence Wright’s one-man play My Trip to al-Qaeda, with the exclusive HBO documentary to air on September 7. The doc chronicles fundamentalist Islam’s rise to power. This comes from a firsthand account …

TORONTO: Canada’s Family Channel has greenlit three new live-action comedy series for its spring 2011 schedule: Decidedly Debra, Really Me and What’s Up, Warthogs! The 13×30-minute Decidedly Debra is produced by Cookie Jar Entertainment. The series follows a teen with …

LOS ANGELES/PARIS: The new Africa Media Rights Watch initiative, an anti-piracy body monitoring the region, will officially launch next year at the fifth edition of DISCOP Africa. The initiative is supported by leading broadcasters and content suppliers involved in Sub-Saharan …

SINGAPORE: SPE Networks—Asia has added Malaysia to the carriage roster for AXN Beyond. The channel is to launch in Malaysia on August 30, following previous carriage deals in Singapore, Indonesia, the Philippines and Thailand. AXN Beyond is a spin-off of …

NEW YORK: Cineflix Studios, the recently launched scripted division of Cineflix, has optioned It Could Be Worse, You Could Be Me, a pilot script based on a book by Ariel Leve from her popular weekly London Sunday Times Magazine column. …

SYDNEY: A key part of the new direction for the FOXTEL Channels Group will be the increased investment in local programming, across entertainment, reality, factual and comedy. The FOXTEL Channels Group includes many of the top offerings on the platform, …

SAN FRANCISCO/BURBANK: Warner Bros. Television Group’s Studio 2.0 has signed a deal with online video syndication company AlphaBird to launch four original web series on Dailymotion. AlphaBird is handling the syndication for four of Studio 2.0’s original digital series, which …

MUMBAI: The Walt Disney Company in India has slated an October 8 release for its first live-action Hindi feature, Do Dooni Chaar. Do Dooni Chaar is the story of a middle class family: the father is a school teacher trying …

LONDON: Ahead of its launch, Vintage TV, the U.K.’s new music and pop culture channel aimed at viewers 50+, has signed a pact with Getty Images for access to its still-image and footage archive. Vintage TV can source content for …