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LOS ANGELES: FX has ordered six episodes of a new half-hour animated comedy series from Adam Reed tentatively titled Archer, for launch in its fall schedule. The comedy is set at an international spy agency, where the employees use global …

DHAKA: Discovery Networks Asia-Pacific (DNAP) has signed an exclusive agreement with Bashundhara Group that sees its bouquet of factual channels distributed in Bangladesh by Bashundhara Infotainment.  Bashundhara Infotainment will distribute Discovery Channel, Animal Planet and Discovery Travel & Living. Bashundhara …

TORONTO/LOS ANGELES/LONDON: Swin Chang has been appointed director of development for kids and animation at E1 Television, based at the company’s corporate headquarters in Toronto. Reporting to Frank Saperstein, the senior VP of kids and animation in E1’s Los Angeles …

NEW YORK: PBS dominated the 30th Annual News and Documentary Emmy Award nominations with a total of 41, followed by CBS with 23, ABC and HBO/Cinemax with 13 each, National Geographic with 12 and NBC with ten. CNN picked up …

MIAMI: Dori Media Group has reached an agreement for the Spanish brand-management outfit Elastic Rights to handle the rights for the format and finished version of the Argentinean teen series Champs 12 in Spain, Italy, Portugal, Greece and Turkey. The …

NEW YORK: New research from MTV Networks has found that a five-second pre-roll combined with a ten-second lower-third ad unit is the most effective and the most audience-friendly ad product for short-form online video. The findings are revealed in Project Inform, …

LONDON: BBC Comedy has commissioned ITV Studios’ comedy division to produce the five-part online series Brian Pern, starring The Fast Show’s Simon Day. Brian Pern is a video-blog style sitcom, centered on a fictional character who was once a flamboyant …

SANTA MONICA: Soap star Antonio Sabato Jr. searches for loves from a pool of 13 women in the new VH1 series My Antonio, premiering August 16. Contestants travel to a Hawaiian paradise to seek out a love connection with the …

HONG KONG: Laureen Ong is exiting the role of COO at News Corporation’s Asian arm, STAR, in the middle of next month, as part of what is expected to be a major restructure of the company. Ong exits ahead of …

BUENOS AIRES: Following DISCOP, Dori Media Group has finalized deals with buyers from Central and Eastern Europe  for titles such as the teen telenovela Champs 12.  The soccer-focused novela heads to Spain, Italy, Turkey, Greece, Portugal, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Macedonia and Kazakhstan. …