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LONDON: Justine Powell has been tapped as VP of distribution for EMEA at CNBC, where she will drive the business and financial news network’s expansion across TV and digital platforms, both to the home and commercial premises such as banks, financial …

PARIS: Net profit for the first half of the year at TF1 increased by 51 percent to 74 million euros, on revenues that were up by 14 percent to 1.28 billion euros. Advertising revenues at the flagship channels showed an …

BEIJING: China and Singapore have agreed to collaborate on theatrical feature and TV movie production across the live-action, animated and factual genres. The Film Coproduction Agreement was signed on the sidelines of the 7th China-Singapore Joint Council for Bilateral Co-operation (CSJCBC) …

TOKYO/SINGAPORE: Nick Time is a new Nickelodeon programming block that will air six days a week on Sony Pictures Entertainment’s Animax channel in Japan, reaching more than 8.3 million homes. The Nickelodeon-branded block will launch on September 1 with episodes …

BOSTON: PBS has entered into a new relationship with TJL Productions, the outfit behind the My Music series airing across the U.S. on public broadcasting stations, covering nine new musical entertainment specials. The new multi-year pact extends the two-decades-long collaboration between …

NEW YORK: Rola Bauer, partner and managing director at Tandem Communications, talks in this video interview about the highly anticipated The Pillars of the Earth, which premieres tomorrow night on Starz in the U.S.   The eight-hour TV adaptation of Ken …

NEW YORK: CBS is lining up a female-targeted daytime talk show for this fall, to be co-hosted by Julie Chen, Sara Gilbert, Sharon Osbourne, Holly Robinson Peete, Leah Remini and Marissa Jaret Winokur. The as-yet-untitled one-hour daily will see news and entertainment …

NEW YORK: The Battlestar Galactica prequel Caprica will return to complete its first season on Syfy in January 2011. The first half of the season ran on the NBC Universal-owned cable network from January to March of this year. The second …

TORONTO: Nickelodeon Germany has picked up both seasons of the live-action kids’ adventure series Connor Undercover from Shaftesbury Sales Company. The sale of the 39 episodes marks Shaftesbury’s first deal with Nick Germany, which reaches 38.6 million homes. The channel …

TORONTO/LOS ANGELES/LONDON: SPE Networks Latin America has licensed the Jason Priestley comedy Call Me Fitz from Entertainment One. “We are thrilled that Fitz has found a home on SPE Networks Latin America,” said Valerie Cabrera, executive VP of eOne Television International. …