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MUNICH: Premiere AG, which today revealed a first-quarter loss of 80 million euros, has confirmed that it will relaunch its German and Austrian pay-TV platform as Sky this summer. Announcing the move, the company, in which News Corporation owns a 30.5-percent stake, …

SAN DIEGO: NBC Sports’ coverage of the Preakness Stakes, the French Open, the Stanley Cup Final, the U.S. Open and Wimbledon will be available as live mobile TV broadcasts via FLO TV. All part of NBC Sports Championship Season on …

LONDON: ITV has said it plans to make an additional £40 million in cost savings from next year, after announcing that group revenues fell 13.6 percent to £425 million in the first quarter. Broadcasting revenues fell 12 percent to £359 …

LOS ANGELES: FOX has ordered a second season of the drama Lie to Me, with Shawn Ryan, the creator and executive producer of The Shield, joining as an executive producer and showrunner. From Imagine Television, Lie to Me is inspired by the …

TORONTO: Canada’s Alliance for Children and Television (ACT) is hosting a special 35th anniversary edition of its annual Awards of Excellence Gala in Toronto on June 3, which will be hosted by Degrassi‘s Stacie Mistysyn. Taking place at CBC’s Glenn Gould …

NEW YORK: After successfully teaming with DreamWorks Television for a TV series based on the Madagascar animated film franchise, Nickelodeon has ordered 26 episodes of Kung Fu Panda: The Series. Nickelodeon and DreamWorks first teamed for the co-production The Penguins of Madagascar, …

TORONTO: Breakthrough Films & Television has signed a co-production and broadcast deal with History Television in Canada and Discovery Communications in the U.S., Europe, Africa and the Middle East for Greatest Tank Battles, a military, CGI documentary series that spotlights …

LONDON: UKTV is continuing its rebranding efforts, licensing the name Good Food for its UKTV Food channel from BBC Worldwide, owner of the existing Good Food magazine brand. The agreement permits UKTV to rebrand its dedicated UKTV Food channel and …

SILVER SPRING: Discovery Channel has inked a multi-year production deal with Keith Scholey, ex-head of BBC’s Natural History Unit, and his outfit, Wild Horizons, for a series of documentaries exploring the globe, continent by continent, kicking off with Wild Planet: North America. Billed as the …

NORWALK: Liz Levenson, who most recently served as manager of programming for CABLEready, has been upped to director of program development. Levenson is responsible for supervising all acquisitions and submissions. She also works closely with CABLEready’s program suppliers on original …