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LOS ANGELES, December 18: Headlining MarVista Entertainment's slate for NATPE are the thrillers Reflections, Special Delivery and The Watch, as well as a diverse lineup of family movies, comedies and animated features. Reflections stars Academy Award-winning actor Timothy Hutton as …

ENGLEWOOD, December 18: Production is under way on Party Down, a new original comedy from Starz Entertainment, in association with its sister company Starz Media. Party Down follows a Los Angeles catering team who all have dreams of Hollywood stardom …

GRÜNWALD/HILVERSUM, December 18: The Dutch kids’ and family entertainment outfit Telescreen is being acquired by the German brand management and media company m4e. The move is part of m4e’s growth strategy as it eyes expansion across Europe. Telescreen, which turned …

LONDON, December 18: FremantleMedia has established a production company with Bea Ballard, the former creative head and executive producer of BBC Entertainment Events, whose credits include the British Saturday night hits How Do You Solve a Problem Like Maria? and …

NEW YORK, December 18: In the wake of the economic downturn, 4Kids Entertainment will be cutting 15 percent of its workforce as part of a cost-cutting initiative. The layoffs, across all of the company's divisions, will incur severance costs of …

SANTA CLARA, December 18: TV Guide Network is changing hands, with Macrovision Solutions Corporation reaching a deal to offload the cable channel to Allen Shapiro, the former CEO of dick clark productions, and private equity firm One Equity Partners for …

MOSCOW/BURBANK, December 17: The Walt Disney Company is launching a branded free-to-air channel in Russia as part of a joint venture with the local broadcasting company Media-One Holdings. The family-oriented entertainment channel will be carried on 30 stations owned and …

LONDON, December 17: Free-to-air digital terrestrial TV in Europe will be least affected by the global economic downturn, according to new 2009 forecasts from research firm Screen Digest. Surveying the impact of the recession on Europe's media markets, the research …

LONDON, December 17: As Disney-ABC-ESPN Television's VP of channel distribution for EMEA (South), Kakhaber Abashidze will lead a team in charge of Southern Europe, Central and Eastern Europe, Russia, CIS countries and the Middle East and Africa. Abashidze will work …

HARRINGTON PARK, December 17: dick clark productions has appointed Alfred Haber Distribution, Inc. as the exclusive international distributor for the 2009 American Music Awards, which will air in November 2009. This marks the 18th year that Alfred Haber Distribution has …