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LONDON: BBC Worldwide’s annual international market BBC Showcase will be held for the first time in Beijing, to take place August 25 alongside the Beijing TV Festival. BBC Showcase China will be tailored to the Chinese market and will host …

BURBANK: Production has begun on the new movie Lemonade Mouth, a Disney Channel original that is filled with music. The story follows five less-than-popular high-school students who form a band that becomes a champion for students sidelined by the high-school …

LONDON: LIVING has made its first commission for a scripted comedy, Gayle Tuesday, an hour-long pilot produced by Black Orchid Productions. Starring Brenda Gilhooly as Gayle Tuesday, the pilot is filmed in a documentary style, following the former faux Page …

OTTAWA: The Ottawa International Animation Festival (OIAF) and the Brussels-based non-profit association Cartoon are to host Cartoon Connection Canada-EU at the Television Animation Conference (TAC), from October 18 to 20. Cartoon Connection Canada-EU will provide a forum for animation professionals …

  NEW YORK: Kevin MacLellan, the president of Comcast International Media Group (CIMG) and Comcast Entertainment Studios (CES), talks in this video interview about the on­going appeal of Comcast’s programming, and his plans for CES. At the start of this …

LONDON: KidsCo has added some 1 million additional European homes to its reach, through new launches in Cyprus, Poland and Turkey. The channel is now launching on Multimedia Polska on VOD, Cablenet Cyprus and TTNET Turkey in August. Programming will …

NEW YORK: With revenues up 8 percent to $32.8 billion for fiscal 2010 News Corporation posted a full-year profit of $2.5 billion, as compared with the $3.4 billion loss in fiscal 2009. For Q4, meanwhile, net profit was $875 million, …

LOS ANGELES: Toei has licensed the pay-TV, pay-per-view and DVD rights to the animated series Ghost Sweeper Mikami to Sentai Holdings for North America. Sentai picked up rights for all 45 episodes. In the series, urban development and crowding in …

SINGAPORE: Universal Networks International (UNI) is replacing the Hallmark Channel brand in Asia with DIVA Universal, a new entertainment channel targeting viewers in their 20s and 30s. As of September 19, DIVA Universal will reach more than 20 million viewers across 21 …

MIAMI: Marc Zimet has been promoted to VP of music programming and talent relations for MTV Latin America and Tr3s: MTV, Música y Más in the U.S. Zimet will be responsible for developing, implementing and managing the pan-regional music strategy for …