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LOS ANGELES: Paramount Digital Entertainment has unveiled a digital film index at ParamountClips.com, which allows Paramount Pictures licensees to search the studio’s library of films frame-by-frame and purchase what they want. Digitalsmiths has been tapped to index, manage, distribute and …

 MONTREAL: The Alliance for Children and Television (ACT) will present 12 awards that recognize achievement in French-Canadian TV programming for young viewers over the past two years at its 2010 French-Language Awards of Excellence. The competition is open to all …

TORONTO: Shaftesbury Films has completed the third season of the half-hour teen comedy Overruled!, which airs on Family Channel in Canada.  The show follows 15-year-old Jared "Coop" Cooper, who is a lawyer in his high school’s teen court. Overruled! airs …

LONDON: BBC In-House Entertainment has named Sarah Edwards, currently the head of development for entertainment at Talkback Thames, as its head of format entertainment development. Edwards, a former head of development at 12 Yard Productions, has developed entertainment formats such …

MIAMI: Telemundo Communications Group is to enhance and expand its news content across key day parts and multiple platforms, featuring an increased investment in local newscasts.  "The media business is going through enormous changes, we are in a technological revolution …

UNIVERSAL CITY: The freshman musical dramedy Glee notched up four nominations for the 67th annual Golden Globe Awards, making it the most-nominated series, while HBO was once again the most-nominated network, with 17 nods in total.  FOX’s Glee faces off for …

NEW YORK: The number of Americans choosing TV as their favorite type of media increased by 26 percent this year, according to the new Deloitte State of the Media Democracy survey, with the recession seeing consumers turning more to in-home …

HOLLYWOOD: Paramount Home Entertainment (PHE) has extended its trial license program with DVD kiosk operator Redbox through at least June 30, 2010, bringing customers new-release titles such as Up in the Air and The Lovely Bones. Redbox and PHE signed …

MONTEREY: Recessionary and competitive pressures have contributed to a "significant" decline in broadband subscriber additions in Western Europe, according to a new report from SNL Kagan.  The top 10 fixed broadband providers saw an average of less than 1.4 million …

LONDON: CNBC, National Geographic Channel and Sky News have been appointed as the official broadcast partners for the World Travel & Tourism Council (WTTC) for the next three years. The $5 million multiplatform global partnership will see the broadcasters provide commercial airtime, online marketing …