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LOS ANGELES: Steve Martin and Alec Baldwin are set to co-host the 82nd Academy Awards, which will be presented March 7, 2010, with a live broadcast on ABC. Martin hosted the 73rd and 75th editions of the awards show, and …

  NEW YORK: In this video interview, Rob Clark, the president of worldwide entertainment at FremantleMedia, talks about format trends in the current market.   With entertainment behemoths like Idols, Got Talent and X Factor, and a game-show catalogue that …

NEW YORK: Dance Your Ass Off, a series that challenges contestants to lose weight by dancing away the pounds, will return for a second season on Oxygen in 2010. Dance Your Ass Off was Oxygen’s most watched freshman series in …

HONG KONG: WarnerTV, featuring Warner Bros. Entertainment shows like The Mentalist, Fringe and Gossip Girl, is set to roll out in Asia next year, with distribution to be handled by HBO Asia. Announcing the Asian expansion, Malcolm Dudley-Smith, the executive VP …

NEW YORK: CBS Consumer Products has teamed up with a number of casual-game developers and video-game publishers to extend the experience for eight popular TV shows, including The Amazing Race and CSI: Crime Scene Investigation. Ubisoft has developed CSI: Crime …

LOS ANGELES: Produced by Endemol USA, Jerseylicious, slated for a spring 2010 on The Style Network, will follow the lives of six stylists working in New Jersey. The docusoap will chronicle the stylists’ lives in and out of their popular …

MONTREAL: The Alliance for Children and Television (ACT), in association with Sinking Ship Entertainment, has lined up Dafna Lemish from Tel-Aviv University to address the topic of what gender means for kids at the upcoming Children, Youth & Media (CYM) Conference.  …

BURBANK: The Walt Disney Company has secured the approval of Chinese authorities to build a new theme park in the Pudong district of Shanghai. “China is one of the most dynamic, exciting and important countries in the world, and this approval …

BURBANK: Hillary Duff leads the cast of the two-hour original ABC Family movie The Business of Falling in Love, and is also serving as an executive producer. Based on the book Diary of a Working Girl by Daniella Brodsky, The Business …

LOS ANGELES: FOX is set to air MasterChef (working title), a culinary competition from Reveille and Gordon Ramsay’s One Potato Two Potato based on the hit format distributed by Shine International.  MasterChef is the number one cooking format in the …