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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 …

LONDON: CBBC has commissioned a junior version of the hit BBC amateur cooking competition MasterChef to air in 2010. Junior MasterChef will challenge children to cook a two-course meal in just one hour. The 13-part series will have eight heats, …

SINGAPORE: The market for IP set-top boxes—enabling HD, on-demand and interactive services—will be worth more than $3 billion by 2014, according to ABI Research, while the demand for basic boxes is declining. “Shipments of basic boxes across all television platforms …

TORONTO: The Academy of Canadian Cinema Television has announced the nominations for the 24th annual Gemini Awards, honoring the year’s best in Canadian English-language television, with Flashpoint leading with a record 19 nominations. The Tudors garnered the second-most nominations, 11. Being …

SANTA MONICA: The documentary producer and filmmaker R.J. Cutler, who is behind the high-profile feature The September Issue, will be a guest keynote speaker at the inaugural WESTDOC documentary and reality conference, taking place in Santa Monica, California, from September …

LONDON: The British government is exploring a proposal that would terminate the Internet connections of people who repeatedly download illegal content. The statement from the Department for Business, Innovation and Skills said the proposed amendment to the Digital Britain bill …

LOS ANGELES: The comedic drama Drop Dead Diva delivered its highest ratings ever on Sunday on Lifetime among women 18 to 49 and women 25 to 54. The show scored a 1.8 rating with women 18 to 49, a 16-percent …

STOCKHOLM: The Pirate Bay is back online after being briefly shut down today when a Swedish court compelled the file-sharing site’s ISP to pull the plug. A Swedish court told ISP Black Internet that it would face a 500,000 kronor …

LONDON: FremantleMedia Enterprises (FME) has acquired the multiplatform drama Slide, which will be the first-ever drama in Australia to launch with an online prequel, followed by episodes to air on Foxtel in April next year. The online elements for Slide …