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NEW YORK: News Corporation’s chairman and CEO, Rupert Murdoch, is ranked seventh on Forbes’ list of the world’s most powerful people, behind Google’s Sergey Brin and Larry Page in fifth place and Mexican telecommunications tycoon Carlos Slim in sixth. Other media …

 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 …

PALISADES PARK: The 67th annual Golden Globe Awards, set to air live on NBC, have been sold by Alfred Haber Distribution, Inc. (AHDI) to a number of international broadcasters, among them ProSieben in Germany and TNT in Latin America. In …

NEW YORK: With its revenues plummeting from $53.5 million a year ago to $9.5 million in the third quarter, RHI Entertainment saw its net loss widen from $3.5 million to $16.7 million. “The third quarter was a difficult one for …