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NEW YORK: The Producers’ Forum is a new two-day initiative at MIPTV, organized in association with World Screen. Kicking off a series on the panelists at Producers’ Forum, David Lyle, the president of Fox Reality Channel, discusses the Entertainment Master …

NEW YORK: The Daily Show and The Colbert Report will be removed from Hulu next week, after the video site was unable to clinch a new deal with Viacom-owned Comedy Central. The two series, among the most popular offerings on Hulu, …

BRUSSELS/SILVER SPRING: Discovery Communications is launching the female-skewing lifestyle channel TLC globally, starting in Norway on March 4. The international version debuts in Norway on the Canal Digital, GET and Lyse platforms. To support the launch, LA Ink star Kat …

LONDON/BURBANK: British mobile operator 3, which launched a mobile TV SVOD service at the end of last year, is adding WarnerTV to its slate, delivering on-demand access to numerous shows from Warner Bros. Entertainment. WarnerTV—operated by Warner Bros. International Branded Services—offers 3 subscribers …

NEW YORK: Disney Channels Worldwide has unveiled the 2010-11 programming highlights for Disney Channel and Disney XD in a presentation to U.S. advertisers. Gary Marsh, the president of entertainment and chief creative officer at Disney Channels Worldwide, presented several new …

STOCKHOLM: Modern Times Group has signed a long-term deal to distribute Viasat’s premium pay-TV channel packages to Telenor Norge’s broadband customers in Norway and Sweden. Telenor has 623,000 broadband customers in Norway and 574,000 in Sweden, as of the end …

HONG KONG: Senior executives from a range of channel operators and platforms are lined up to speak at the Asia Pacific Pay-TV Operators Summit (APOS) 2010, taking place in May in Bali, including Astro’s Rohana Rozhan, Austar’s John Porter and Fox International …

WASHINGTON, D.C.: National Geographic is launching the new network Nat Geo Wild, which spotlights the the animal kingdom, on March 29, along with an HD feed. Nat Geo Wild and Nat Geo Wild HD will debut with a lineup of …

TORONTO: William Shatner, best known from his role as Captain Kirk from the original Star Trek, will receive the Lifetime Achievement Award at the 2010 Banff World Television Festival. Shatner’s career spans more than five decades. He has served as …

NEW YORK: Sumner Redstone, the executive chairman of CBS Corporation and Viacom, expressed  "absolute confidence" that the two companies’ stock prices would continue to rise after having been through "a very tough, tough time," he said during an interview with …