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LONDON: The BBC will drop the amount it spends on its senior management by 25 percent by mid 2013, and is looking to reduce the total number of senior managers by 18 percent in the same period. The new round …

BURBANK: Jim McGowan has been appointed senior VP of digital content and distribution for Cookie Jar Entertainment, based in Burbank and reporting to Toper Taylor, the company’s president and COO.  McGowan comes to the role after having ran his own entertainment and …

LONDON: The business software and services provider Sage has renewed its partnership with ITV Studios to fund a second season of The Krypton Factor, as part of its wider Business Brains campaign. The partnership between ITV and Sage for the …

ANCHORAGE: Evergreen Films has signed up to develop the Kate Shugak, Alaska P.I. mystery book series from author Dana Stabenow into a TV property. The development deal between Stabenow and Evergreen Films guarantees the majority of the filming and production …

LONDON: Brightcove has added Virgin Media Television to its roster of British clients, with the Internet TV service powering LIVING’s online channel Liv, which delivers free, original short-form content. Liv went live last week, accessible from Living’s website as well …

SANTA BARBARA: Foothill Entertainment has firmed up a co-production agreement with Neptuno Films and Title Entertainment for the original animated series Gododo. The series, created by Ian Ellery and Guy Hallifax, follows the last surviving dodo, Gododo, who is thoroughly …

SOFIA: Krassimir Nikolov has been upped to the role of country manager for Bulgaria and the Balkans at Fox International Channels (FIC) Europe. He will assume management for Bulgaria, Serbia, Slovenia, Albania, Bosnia, Croatia, Kosovo, Macedonia and Montenegro. Nikolov will …

PORT WASHINGTON: E1 Entertainment has promoted Dan Gurlitz from VP of video to senior VP of the division.  Gurlitz joined E1 in 2003 to oversee and develop its video division and to assume the role of general manager for KOCH …

LOS ANGELES: Stelle Stolper, the co-founder of Ish Entertainment—the venture behind MTV’s Paris Hilton’s My New BFF, among other reality titles—is forming a new joint venture with Reveille. Wikked Entertainment will produce original entertainment for television under the leadership of …

MUNICH: Tandem Communications has closed an output deal with Belgian broadcaster VMMa covering a range of TV movies and series, following similar agreements with Spain’s Cuatro, Slovakia’s TV JOJ and Romania’s ProTV. The broadcasting group has secured the rights to a …