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MEXICO CITY: Grupo Televisa reported a 10.2-percent increase in revenues in the second quarter to Ps. 12.7 billion ($946.3 million), delivering a net profit of Ps.1.8 billion ($135 million), down less than 1 percent on the year-ago period. Television broadcasting …

LONDON: My Friend Michael Jackson: Uri’s Story, a new documentary from ITV Studios, features previously unseen home-video footage of the music icon from his friend Uri Geller’s private archive. ITV Global Entertainment is distributing the project. The doc includes footage which has …

BOCA RATON: Penthouse Digital Media Productions is set to launch three linear adult channels in high definition in Europe this September. Penthouse Digital Media Productions, a subsidiary of FriendFinder Networks, PH Media and General Satellite, will offer up the pan-European services …

NEW YORK: Animation Collective has signed up Mexico’s Canal Once for the modern-day superhero tale Three Delivery. The 26×22-minute animated action-comedy is slated for a September debut on Canal Once. Created by Larry Schwarz, Animation Collective’s founder and CEO, Three …

NEW YORK: Next New Networks, the company co-founded by Herb Scannell that creates online TV networks, has created two new departments, one focused solely on building audiences and other dedicated to the programming slate. The Audience Development Group, headed by co-founder …

MIAMI: The Telemundo Station Group has once again partnered with Ford Motor Company for the Amores de Luna franchise, with its second installment to feature the new 2010 Ford Fusion. Amores de Luna 2: Nuevos Caminos will be produced by …

SAN FRANCISCO: Al Gore and Joel Hyatt have named former MTV Networks and Interpublic executive Mark Rosenthal as the new CEO of Current Media. Rosenthal was previously CEO of Interpublic Media and president and COO of MTV Networks. As CEO, he …

LONDON: British factual producer Raw Cut TV’s new current-affairs unit is to be led by journalist David Hencke, the former Westminster correspondent for the Guardian.   Hencke will be responsible for sourcing news and stories that the current-affairs unit will develop …

NEW YORK: New Core Productions and Silver Lining Film Group are adapting the award-winning stage musical Smoking Bloomberg, about a Korean dry cleaner who seeks revenge on New York mayor Michael Bloomberg when his smoking ban ruins her business, into …

HONG KONG: Ross Pollack is leaving Sony Pictures Television’s Asian distribution operations to become CEO of Celestial Pictures and will be replaced by Angel Orengo from SPT’s Latin American distribution division. At the Hong Kong-based Celestial Pictures—which operates three Asian …