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LONDON/LOS ANGELES, November 10: FremantleMedia has clinched a deal with YouTube that will see it offering up two different strands of programming on the site, while MGM will become the first Hollywood studio to feature full-length movies on the video …

SANTA MONICA/MILAN, November 10: Rai Trade has taken on worldwide sales for the Italian/French co-production Ex, a romantic comedy, directed by Fausto Brizzi, set in Rome, Paris and New Zealand. The new film from Brizzi—whose previous film, Night Before the …

NEW YORK, November 10: Law & Order: Criminal Intent's new cast member, Jeff Goldblum, and Law & Order veteran Sam Waterston will be on hand at the 2008 International Emmys to present the Founders Award to Dick Wolf. The two …

LONDON, November 10: Spellbound Entertainment's hit preschool property The Koala Brothers has clinched a range of licensing and merchandising deals in Portugal, where the show has been acquired by free-TV broadcaster RTP and the cable and satellite channel Canal Panda. …

LONDON, November 10: Advertising revenues on the U.K.'s main free-TV commercial channels—ITV1, Channel 4 and Five—will drop 7 percent in 2009, according to a new report from ZenithOptimedia. Their offshoot digital channels, however, are expected to buck the economic downturn …

WASHINGTON, D.C., November 10: Retirement Living TV (RLTV), a network targeted at the 50-plus set, has concluded a co-production deal with NBC News for the daily one-hour live news and current-affairs series Daily Cafe, which launches in its third season …

SANTA MONICA, November 10: American Cinema International (ACI) is at the AFM with a slate of series and feature films that includes the adaptation of One Minute Millionaire, based on the book by best-selling authors Mark Victor Hansen, of the …

SANTA MONICA, November 10: Showcasing its movie lineup at the American Film Market this week in Santa Monica, Cinamour Entertainment announced a move into video games. Aligning with Paris-based game-development company Game Fusion, whose proprietary software technology aims to allow …

STOCKHOLM, November 10: Modern Times Group (MTG) is launching Viasat's TV1000 Russian Kino pay-TV movie channel in the U.S. on DISH Network. The 24-hour Russian-language network provides viewers with original movies, ranging from classic titles such as the cult Soviet …

TORONTO, November 10: Harvard scholar and TV producer/presenter Dr. Henry Louis Gates, Jr. will deliver the opening keynote address at the upcoming History Makers International Summit, which will take place in New York City from January 29 to 31 at …