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LONDON: Dragonfly Film and Television Productions, part of Shine Group, has restructured its management, with co-founders Nick Curwin and Magnus Temple to step down as co-chairmen at the end of the year. Sanjay Singhal, who was promoted to managing director of Dragonfly …

LONDON/BUDAPEST: Chellomedia has appointed Levente Malnay as managing director for Chello Central Europe, effective December 1.  Malnay will be responsible for the management and development of the Chello Central Europe channel portfolio, which includes 11 channels with a combined footprint of 46 …

BURBANK: Fourth-quarter profit at The Walt Disney Company increased by 18 percent to $895 million, while revenues rose by 4 percent to $9.9 billion.   The Q4 profit boost was attributed to gains from the merger of Lifetime and AETN …

 LOS ANGELES: The new FOX game show Our Little Genius, produced by Mark Burnett in association with ZOO Productions, gives child geniuses a chance to win life-changing amounts of money for their families by putting their knowledge to the test.  Kids …

 NEW YORK: TV Land has picked up a third season of She’s Got the Look, an original reality model competition that features women over the age of 35.  Series production is moving to Los Angeles for its third run, which …

 BURBANK: An all-new season of Cookie Jar Entertainment‘s comedy-adventure series Johnny Test debuts on Cartoon Network today.  Now in its fourth run, Johnny Test will air Thursdays at 7:30 p.m., with 26 new episodes slated for broadcast. The show follows …

 SINGAPORE: The GAC Group has extended its deal with ESPN STAR Sports for the sponsorship of the FA Cup for the next two seasons until 2011.  The FA Cup commands a viewership of some 47 million across Asia. ESS also …

 LONDON: The British men’s entertainment channel Bravo has commissioned CPL Productions to make a six-part series that follows mixed martial arts (MMA) fighter Alex Reid.  The new series, tentatively titled Alex Reid: The Fight of His Life, will debut as part …

NEW YORK: HBO Archives has recovered more than 13,000 videotapes of entertainment footage from the early 1980s to the late ’90s that have never been catalogued. The new available material joins HBO Archives Entertainment News library that covers the 1970s …

   LONDON/BUDAPEST: Gábor Horváth Dori has been named general manager of MTV Networks Hungary, where he will be responsible for the overall management of MTV Networks International’s (MTVNI) business. Horváth Dori’s responsibilities will span an integrated multimedia entertainment portfolio of …