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LOS ANGELES: E! Entertainment Television has ordered an eight-episode series, The Lamas Family, from Mike Fleiss and Warner Horizon Television, as well as a new show from Ryan Seacrest Productions and Bunim-Murray Productions featuring two of the Kardashian sisters. From the producers of E!’s …

PALISADES PARK: Alfred Haber Distribution, Inc. (AHDI) has reached a deal with Nash Entertainment for the international distribution rights to the sixth season of the police reality series Most Shocking, which airs in the U.S. on truTV. AHDI now how has the …

LONDON/ABERDEEN: Tern Television has received a commission from Sky Real Lives for the 10×30-minute series Celebrity Parents’ SOS. Each episode of Tern’s new lifestyle format will feature a British household that needs assistance in the fundamentals of mending, cleaning, cooking and DIY. …

MAINZ: Karoline Meichsner-Sertl has been appointed as the head of ZDF Enterprises’ legal and contract department. Meichsner-Sertl takes over from Tobias Könemann, who remains the head of personnel at the company. She was previously an in-house lawyer at Deutsche Welle. She also served stints …

BOSTON: APT Worldwide has picked up the international distribution rights to a documentary about five girls’ basketball teams battling it out in the Montana Class C high-school championship. Class C: The Only Game in Town, winner of the Best Documentary Award at the …

TORONTO: JumpTV, a provider of international and sports programming over the Internet, has unveiled a new destination providing a selection of live and on-demand channels from Latin America. JumpTV Latino is a subscription-based service that promises the largest selection of …

NEW YORK: First-quarter profit at NBC Universal fell 45 percent to $391 million, on revenues that were down just 2 percent to $3.5 billion, parent company GE reported today. GE’s total revenues, meanwhile, fell 9 percent to $38.4 billion, with profit …

NEW YORK: Time Warner has won approval from bondholders of $12.3 billion in debt to amend covenants that restricted the company from spinning off AOL. Each bondholder who consented will receive a payment of $5 for each $1,000 in debt securities. …

LONDON: ITV plc’s executive chairman, Michael Grade, is suing Greg Dyke and The Times for libel over a piece the former BBC chief wrote in the British newspaper last month. The libel suit centers on the portion of the article, about ITV’s …

SAN BRUNO: YouTube has linked up with a range of content providers, including Sony, CBS, MGM and Lionsgate, to provide full-length TV shows and movies, supported by the video-sharing site’s new ad service. "This addition is one of many efforts underway to …