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NEW YORK: Breakout Kings, from Fox21 and Chernin Entertainment, is a new original drama series for A&E Network that is slated for a 2011 premiere. Production on 13 one-hour episodes will begin this fall in Toronto. The show comes from …

NEW YORK: USA Network has acquired from Twentieth Television the exclusive syndication rights to the hit ABC series Modern Family. USA Network will strip the series Monday through Sunday starting in fall 2013. Modern Family was the number one freshman …

BURBANK: CBS has ordered a new sitcom for mid-season, Mad Love, starring Jason Biggs, Judy Greer and Sarah Chalke. Rounding out the cast is Tyler Labine. The series follows a group of four single friends in New York City, two …

PARIS/LOS ANGELES: Though DISCOP East just wrapped last week, the event organizers are already looking ahead to 2011, with dates and location confirmed and a shift in the schedule for the DISCOPRO conference and pitching sessions. The 19th edition will …

ARLINGTON: The new owners of the Soundtrack Channel are planning to relaunch the service with a broader programming mix. Soundtrack Channel was launched by former E! executive Bill Lee in 2002, delivering music from film and TV. That element will …

LONDON: Robert Llewellyn is to host the new chat show Carpool, a commission from UKTV’s male-skewed channel Dave that is produced by RDF Contact and fully funded by Toyota Prius. Carpool started off as an Internet series, with Llewellyn picking …

NEW YORK: Oxygen—one of the 100 channels profiled in World Screen’s new U.S. Cable & Satellite Channels guide—has shored up the basic-cable syndication rights to FOX’s hit series Glee, and has lined up an original companion reality series.  The deal …

NEW DELHI: The Telecom Regulatory Authority of India has recommended that the country increase the cap on foreign investment in DTH, IPTV and cable distribution platforms to 74 percent from the current 49 percent. The new 74-percent limit would also …

MIAMI: U.S. Hispanic broadcaster Telemundo will premiere its new prime-time novela Las Aparicio online at the end of July ahead of its TV debut. The 120 episode novela will launch on Telemundo.com later next month in a new HD broadband …

UNIVERSAL CITY/LONDON: The movies-on-demand subscription service PictureBox has picked up a package of more than 30 films from The Walt Disney Company EMEA, including the Pirates of the Caribbean franchise, to be added to its offerings in Poland. PictureBox, which …