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BURBANK, June 6: Universal Pictures Digital Platforms Group and Glu Mobile have teamed up to launch a new mobile game based on the hit SCI FI Channel series Battlestar Galactica. The game is set aboard the BSG-75, and players have …

LONDON, June 6: FremantleMedia Enterprises (FME) reported that traffic to its web portal for talkbackTHAMES’ reality competition series Britain’s Got Talent has nearly doubled from last year’s figures. Over the course of the series, 3.4 million video clips were viewed …

NASHVILLE, June 6: TNA Wrestling has reached new agreements to supply its wrestling programming to Spanish terrestrial broadcaster Antena 3 and Portuguese pay-TV sports network Sport TV. Negotiated by RDA TV, TNA’s exclusive worldwide television rights agency, these deals follow …

  LOS ANGELES, June 6: Azteca Networks and DIRECTV are set to launch a new 24-hour satellite-only channel, Azteca México, to be aired through DIRECTV MÁS in the U.S. beginning June 11. Azteca México will offer exclusive programming from TV …

TORONTO, June 6: Kim Cattrall, of Sex and the City fame, has signed on to voice the role of Dee in the animated sitcom Producing Parker, premiering in spring 2009 on E! in Canada. Producing Parker follows Parker Kovak, an …

ENGLEWOOD, June 6: Dennis Hopper is set to star in Crash, the first original drama from Starz Entertainment, based on the Academy Award-winning film of the same name. The 13×1-hour series, co-produced with Lionsgate, has begun production in Albuquerque, New …

NEW YORK, June 6: Videos from YouTube can now be viewed directly on BRAVIA flat-panel TVs via Sony’s BRAVIA Internet Video Link Service, which delivers a variety of on-demand entertainment content for free. The BRAVIA Internet Video Link, which went …

LONDON, June 6: Wadah Khanfar, the director general of Al Jazeera Network, will give the Worldview Address at this year’s MediaGuardian Edinburgh International Television Festival (MGEITF), which takes place from August 22 to 24. In his Worldview Address, which offers …

SANTA CLARA/NEW YORK, June 6: Macrovision Solutions Corporation announced today that News Corporation has sold off its 19-percent stake in the company, which recently merged with Gemstar-TV Guide International. The move marks the end of a saga that stretches back …

MUNICH, June 5: The ProSiebenSat.1 Group has expanded its online portfolio with the acquisition of 100 percent of Feeem Media, which operates the female-targeted content portal Fem.com. Dr. Marcus Englert, a member of the executive board of ProSiebenSat.1 for new …