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LOS ANGELES: CBS has given second-season orders to NCIS: Los Angeles and The Good Wife, the season’s top two freshman series. NCIS: Los Angeles is the number one new program of the season, with an average audience of 16.8 million …

ATLANTA: The critically acclaimed new series Men of a Certain Age, which stars Ray Romano, Andre Braugher and Scott Bakula, will return for a second season on TNT. The show is currently airing Mondays at 10 p.m. Men of a …

PARIS: A new report from Euroconsult has found that the number of satellite TV platforms worldwide rose to 113 in 2009, a 38-percent gain over a three-year period. According to Satellite TV Platforms, World Survey & Prospects to 2019, Growth Through …

LOS ANGELES: Addicted, a one-hour docu-series that follows the journey of recovery of people struggling with addiction, has been given a six-episode order from TLC. Slated for a March debut, Addicted will look at how the debilitating disease of addiction …

LONDON: By 2013, movie-on-demand revenues for pay-TV operators will reach $2.4 billion in the U.S. and 430 million euros in Western Europe, Futuresource Consulting indicates in a new report. “The rise of on-demand video content that can be accessed through a laptop, …

NEW YORK: VH1 and VH1.com will air the exclusive world premiere of Michael Jackson’s They Don’t Really Care About Us music video on January 19 at 10 p.m., with a new 30-minute original special, All Access: Making Michael Jackson’s This …

PARIS: Banijay Entertainment has expanded its network of production companies worldwide with the acquisition of U.K.-based Zig Zag Productions, together with its HooHah subsidiary, which produces short-form and branded-entertainment content. Banijay already owns Air Prod, ALJ, Depeche Prod and Jesprod …

PASADENA: Animal Planet has slated a new eight-part series, Last Chance Highway, about individuals on a mission to give stray dogs a chance at survival, along with renewing Pit Bulls and Parolees and River Monsters for second seasons. Produced by …

PASADENA: Transitioning from its current eight-hour program schedule, Planet Green is expanding its content offerings for a 24-hour format, creating a new prime-time programming block, Verge. Planet Green moves to the new 24-hour schedule on March 29. Verge will feature …

NEW YORK/LOS ANGELES: Hope for Haiti, a two-hour telethon presented by MTV Networks to benefit earthquake relief efforts, is to air commercial free across a host of channels in the U.S., among them ABC, NBC, FOX and HBO, and will also …