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LONDON/HONG KONG: BBC Worldwide has announced that the first-ever Tweenies Live! stage show in Asia is slated to take place in Hong Kong this fall, following a successful run in the U.K. Tweenies Live! will be touring local theaters in …

LONDON: Effective immediately, The History Channel UK, a joint venture of A&E Television Networks (AETN) and British Sky Broadcasting (BSkyB), is changing its name to AETN UK. The History Channel UK launched in November 1995 as the first international service …

LONDON: FremantleMedia Enterprises (FME) has firmed up a number of TV and DVD sales from its entertainment, drama, factual, lifestyle and comedy catalogues across Germany and Central and Eastern Europe. Got Talent has now been sold into Georgia, with Rustavi …

LONDON: NBC Universal Global Networks has picked up the first-run pay-TV rights for the second season of Dollhouse for SCI FI Channel in the U.K. The first season of the Joss Whedon drama ran to 12 episodes in the U.S. …

LONDON: Two new children’s programs are being made for CBBC, the sitcom Jinx and factual series This Kid Could Change the World. The commissions will be produced in Manchester, as will two other CBBC hits, Prank Patrol (season three) and …

ENGLEWOOD: The long-running legal battle between DISH Network and TiVo took a new turn late yesterday after a Texas court granted the satellite platform a stay on a previously issued permanent injunction that would have disabled DISH customers’ DVRs. DISH and TiVo …

BRUSSELS: The European Commission today unveiled new rules for the funding of public-service broadcasters with a view to ensuring healthy competition in the media sector. The new framework replaces the Commission’s 2001 Broadcasting Communication and promises more accountability at the …

NEW YORK: A wealth of historical footage that had been stored in Dwight D. Eisenhower’s former World War II headquarters has been resurrected by The Associated Press, which has plans to make the "lost archive" available in HD. Twenty-thousand film …

SOFIA/BURBANK: Central European Media Enterprises’ (CME) PRO.BG is to become the new Bulgarian home for TV series, feature films and animated series from Warner Bros. International Television Distribution (WBITD) via a multiyear output deal announced today that includes the hit …

HONG KONG: Presented by Cartoon Network Asia Pacific and HP, the inaugural Toon Creator Award is an online animation contest for kids aged 6 to 14 across Australia, India, Taiwan, Thailand, Malaysia and Singapore. Between July 13 and September 30, …