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LOS ANGELES: News Corporation is restructuring its Fox businesses, with film and television combined into a single unit, television networks grouped into one division, and Peter Liguori replaced by Peter Rice as chairman of entertainment at FOX Broadcasting. Effective immediately, …

AMSTERDAM: Big Bocca Productions and Rainbow S.p.A. are working on 26 new episodes of Huntik: Secrets & Seekers, for a total of 52 half-hour episodes. The adventure property for kids aged 6 to 12 debuted in Italy on Rai Due, …

NEW YORK: KPI, a production unit of Lightworks Producing Group, is heading into production on The Chosin Few, a one-hour prime-time special that will be broadcast in HD on Smithsonian Channel. For ten days in the winter of 1950, legendary …

NEW YORK: Shine Global has teamed up with Hollywood actress Eva Longoria Parker for the documentary film project Harvest, which focuses on the plight of the child farm workers whose efforts help feed America. Parker will serve as executive producer …

LONDON: ITV and the BBC have signed a Memorandum of Understanding to support cost savings for regional news throughout England and Wales. The two organizations have been discussing possible ways in which they could work together in partnership aimed at …

LONDON: BBC Two plans to air all five seasons of the HBO hit series The Wire, stripped across the week, with transmission dates to be announced shortly. This is the first time the series, which has a total of 60 …

MEVASSERT ZION: The reality game show UPGRADE, which has just been nominated for a Rose d’Or award, will be a highlight on Armoza Formats’ slate for MIPTV. Armoza has landed the first deal for the game show in Poland and …

NASHVILLE: Total Nonstop Action (TNA) Wrestling has made its library available on Xbox Live Video Marketplace and Zune Marketplace. A variety of TNA multimedia can be accessed, including 13 TNA Home Video titles, as well as all 12 of TNA’s …

NEW YORK: Advertising in the U.S. for the full year 2008 was down 2.6 percent, with expenditures down almost $3.7 billion to a total spend of $136.8 billion, according to preliminary figures from The Nielsen Company. The only two media …

MEXICO CITY: Terminals leads off Televisa Internacional’s slate for the upcoming MIPTV market, with other formats on offer such as The Show of Dreams. The 13×1-hour Terminals features a young journalist whose life changes when she is diagnosed with an …