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SINGAPORE: TV5 in the Philippines has begun carrying a two-hour weekday block featuring content from Singaporean broadcaster MediaCorp. Airing Mondays to Fridays from 12 p.m. to 2 p.m., the block will be dubbed into Tagalog. The deal calls for 520 …

NEW YORK: Verizon has added even more HD and VOD programming choices for FiOS TV customers who subscribe to premium content packages. FiOS TV subscribers who have HBO and Cinemax can soon enjoy the HD channel feeds for both. With …

SINGAPORE: Sparky Animation in association with Skaramoosh and Title Entertainment have adapted the children’s book property Mr. Moon as a preschool series. The Mr. Moon character was created by writer/illustrator Kate Veale. The series follows Mr. Moon, his friends Sunny, …

PARIS: Richard Pinder, the COO for Publicis Worldwide, will deliver the advertising keynote speech at MIPCOM on October 5. His speech, “Contagious Ideas that Change the Conversation,” will look at how content providers and advertising agencies need to work closer …

NEW YORK: Several big-name advertisers, major media companies and media-planning agencies today formally unveiled the Coalition for Innovative Media Measurement (CIMM), which will explore new ways to measure audiences in today’s wherever, whenever content landscape. CIMM’s 14 founding members are Time …

LONDON: In an e-mail to BBC staff, the pubcaster’s director-general, Mark Thompson, called James Murdoch’s recent tirade against the organization and other attacks "out of touch" with what audiences are saying, while Michael Lyons, the chairman of the BBC Trust, …

LONDON: The FremantleMedia dating show Take Me Out has been adapted for Japan, where it will launch on Tokyo Broadcasting System (TBS) in an 11:30 p.m. weekly time slot. Take Me Out will be the first local adaptation of an …

LOS ANGELES: MarVista Entertainment has closed new deals for a number of its feature films and family entertainment titles, including pickups from Disney Australia and Asia. The feature Will You Merry Me went to SBS in Belgium and ProTV of …

NEW YORK/LONDON: HISTORY and HISTORY HD will launch Czech-language services on UPC in the Czech and Slovak Republics, adding to the current roster of Central European territories carrying the channels that includes, among others, Poland, Hungary, Romania and Serbia. This …

SILVER SPRING: Discovery Communications has unveiled a landmark 60-episode, five-year documentary series exploring life’s big questions, to be overseen by the company’s founder and chairman, John Hendricks, for launch in 2011. Curiosity: The Questions of Our Life will tackle "fundamental questions and …