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LONDON: Virgin Media Television’s male-skewing entertainment channel Bravo has secured the U.K. rights to the new Hawaii Five-0 from CBS Studios International. The reboot of the 1970s cop drama was one of the most talked-about series out of the L.A. Screenings …

LOS ANGELES: Hulu has unveiled a new subscription service, Hulu Plus, which will offer full seasons of current TV shows and library programming for $9.99 per month. The pay service is not replacing Hulu.com, but will be complementary to the …

BURBANK: An additional 12 episodes of the one-hour series Pretty Little Liars have been ordered by ABC Family. The show launched as ABC Family’s number one series debut ever in adults 18 to 34, women 18 to 34, viewers 12 …

PARIS: France 24 has secured a number of new international carriage deals, adding to its current reach of 125 million households in 160 countries. The channel is now available in three languages on the Dartybox platform in France, and is …

LOS ANGELES/TOKYO: A. Smith & Co. Productions and Taiyo Kikaku have teamed up to develop, produce and distribute content for TV, Internet and other media that will target the U.S. and Japan. The two originally partnered on the hit ABC …

TORONTO: Shaftesbury Films has started production on Good Dog, a new half-hour comedy created, written and directed by Ken Finkleman. Finkleman (The Newsroom) also stars in the series alongside Lauren Lee Smith (CSI, The L-Word). Finkleman plays George, a self-absorbed …

SCOTTSDALE: By 2013, one in five new TV sets sold in the U.S. will be 3D, according to In-Stat, with a year-on-year shipment increase of 231 percent in the next year. The number of installed 3D TVs will double between …

LONDON: Passion Distribution, which last week attended DISCOP East for the first time, has signed a number of deals in Eastern Europe, with further agreements in negotiation. More than 60 hours of programming was licensed into Russia. Red Media took …

SYDNEY: XYZnetworks’ The LifeStyle Channel has commissioned Shine Australia to produce the hit IWC Media property format Relocation Relocation for the Australian market. The LifeStyle Channel already airs the U.K. series, which is one of the channel’s most watched shows. …

LONDON: Impossible Pictures has finished the fourth season of Primeval, with filming on the fifth installment to wrap in late November. Through a co-production deal with ITV, UKTV, ProSieben and BBC Worldwide, Primeval will return to ITV1 in early 2011 in …