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LONDON: The lineup for the first ever London Good Pitch, which takes place September 7 and 8, features eight filmmaking teams that have been selected from more than 100 applicants to pitch their films and outreach campaigns to an invited …

SINGAPORE: The Jay Leno Show, the highly anticipated variety show set to debut in NBC’s fall lineup, has been given an 11 p.m. slot Monday through Friday in Asia exclusively on Universal Channel. Universal Channel will air the show within …

NEW YORK/SAN BRUNO: Time Warner has agreed to make clips from a range of movies, TV shows and news reports available on YouTube, after launching a branded HBO channel on the video-sharing site last year. The agreement will allow Warner …

TORONTO: VisionTV is bringing back a host of comedy and drama titles for its fall lineup, and has also added new original factual offerings, all geared to viewers 45-plus. For 2009-2010, VisionTV will refresh its weeknight British comedy block with …

LONDON: Adding tens of thousands of hours of classic television and film clip content to its collection, ITN Source has signed an exclusive international program-clip archive representation deal with ITV Global Entertainment. ITN Source already represents Granada, Survival and LWT …

BALTIMORE: PBS KIDS is to feature a number of series that foster preschoolers’ science exploration in its fall lineup, while PBS KIDS GO! targets early elementary school kids with new literacy content. On September 7, the CGI-animated series Dinosaur Train …

NEW YORK: Don Hewitt, the creator and former executive producer of CBS’s long-running news magazine 60 Minutes, passed away yesterday at the age of 86. In this personal essay, Art Kane, a retired CBS News and CBS Broadcast International executive, reflects …

LOS ANGELES: MySpace has reached a deal to acquire the music social-networking site iLike for an undisclosed sum. Owen Van Natta, the CEO of MySpace, said the acquisition "advances our relentless pursuit of innovation and the need to create new …

ENGLEWOOD: Starz has begun the search for a new CEO, following news that its current chairman and CEO, Robert B. Clasen, is to retire at the end of the year. Clasen joined Starz Entertainment in 2003. In 2006, when Liberty …

LONDON: A roundtable of global cancer experts, advocates and researchers from the LIVESTRONG Global Cancer Summit in Dublin will be streamed live on CNN.com on August 23, prior to its TV premiere on CNN International. Led by CNN’s chief medical …