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SAN BRUNO: YouTube is extending its revenue-sharing partnership program to individual videos on the site that attract a large number of viewers. The YouTube Partnership Program (YPP) was first focused on prolific users who regularly produce videos reaching a wide …

NEW YORK: MTV is releasing a slate of original movies that includes My Super Psycho Sweet 16 and Turn the Beat Around. Currently in production, My Super Psycho Sweet 16 follows Madison Penrose, a girl who gets everything she wants, …

LONDON: This October, Sky1 and its high-definition sister service will premiere the sitcom Modern Family, a new series on ABC’s fall schedule, after picking up the exclusive British TV rights from Twentieth Century Fox Television Distribution. The deal secures Sky1, …

NEW YORK: Michael Jackson’s brothers are to be the subjects of a new reality TV series for A&E, to be produced by Point 7 Entertainment. The project began as a reunion special and began filming in January, following Jermaine Jackson, …

TORONTO: Canada’s Global kicks off its fall season with the highly anticipated series premiere of Glee on September 9 at 9 p.m., followed by the debut of the all-new Melrose Place at 10 p.m. The following day, on September 10, …

SYDNEY: Australian DTH platform FOXTEL will use NDS’s Dynamic Audience Measurement System to gather insight into its subscribers’ viewing habits, measuring usage of DVRs and on-demand offerings as well as linear TV. NDS Dynamic, integrated with TNS Media Research’s RaPiDView …

LOS ANGELES: For the 2009 IBC Conference in Amsterdam, Martin Pompadur, the chairman and founding partner of Metan Development Group, will deliver a keynote address titled Predicting Patterns of the Future: The Changing Face of Media and News. Pompadur co-founded …

NEW YORK: EPIX is to present the original comedy event Stark Raving Black, featuring The Daily Show contributor Lewis Black. The special will be filmed at the historic Fillmore Theater in Detroit, and will be taped in front of a …

TORONTO: Titles from Portfolio Entertainment’s slate of food-based offerings such as Everyday Exotic, Chef Abroad and French Food at Home have notched up new international sales. Discovery Networks Asia went for 39 half-hour episodes of Everyday Exotic, which features a …

ATLANTA: Coming off a record-setting first season, Star Wars: The Clone Wars returns with 22 all-new episodes on October 2 on Cartoon Network. The CG-animated series from creator George Lucas and Lucasfilm Animation will launch into its second season with …