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LONDON: Shine TV has received a commission from UKTV for a new game show, What Do Kids Know?, that is slated to launch on Watch early next year. The show pairs celebrities with kids and attempts to unravel what goes on …

MIAMI: Boomerang in Latin America has set a November 2 premiere date for the new season of Venevision International’s (VVI) teen series Somos tú y yo: Un nuevo día (You and Me: A New Day).  You and Me: A New Day takes …

MADRID: Zinkia has launched Pocoyo World, a virtual universe that allows children, parents and caregivers to share in a host of fun and educational activities with their favorite characters from the property.  With the full backing of Internet security operator Protégeles, the …

LONDON/NEW YORK: The Yes Men, a group of activists that stage pranks and hoaxes targeting politicians and corporations, have launched a dedicated channel on Babelgum. The group’s most recent documentary, The Yes Men Fix The World is currently rolling out …

SINGAPORE: Man Shu Sum, formerly CEO of Mark Burnett Productions Asia, has been named managing director of MediaCorp Raintree Pictures. In addition to his stint at Mark Burnett Productions Asia, Man Shu Sum has held senior management positions in the then Television Corporation of …

LOS ANGELES: The Australian adaptation of the Twentieth Century Fox Television Distribution format Beauty and the Geek scored high ratings in its debut on Seven Network.  The series, which debuted on October 8, averaged 1.1 million total viewers and ranked …

LOS ANGELES: Production is under way in Toronto on the Hallmark Channel original movie Fairfield Road, with Jesse Metcalfe cast in the lead role.  Metcalfe (Desperate Housewives) plays Noah McManus, a Boston-based political strategist who seems to have it all—his …

NEW YORK: In this exclusive video interview, Jessika Borsiczky, the executive producer of ABC’s new hit drama FlashForward, talks about how the series came to television, what makes the show unique and why it has universal appeal.      FlashForward was recently picked …

MONTREAL: The National Film Board of Canada (NFB) is launching an application for the iPhone that allows free, full viewing of hundreds of documentaries, animated films and trailers streamed over WiFi, 3G and EDGE wireless networks. The iPhone application allows users …

  TORONTO: Shaftesbury’s Life with Derek and Breakthrough’s Less Than Kind were among the winners at the second part of the 24th Annual Gemini Awards last night, which honored achievements in the children’s and youth, comedy, drama and variety categories. …