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PHILADELPHIA, May 1: First quarter net income at Comcast Corporation dipped 12.5 percent to $732 million, despite a 14-percent rise in consolidated revenues to $8.4 billion. The company also reported a 15-percent rise in operating cash flow to $3.2 billion …

LOS ANGELES, May 1: Reality TV producer Evolution Media, responsible for shows like Bravo’s The Real Housewives of Orange County, has signed a deal with award-winning restaurateur and interior designer Barbara Lazaroff to jointly develop a new culinary competition/documentary television …

NEW YORK, April 30: Playboy Enterprises, Inc. (PEI) has reached a raft of digital distribution partnerships, including one with online video-sharing site YouTube, to launch the Playboy Audience Network, which will highlight its free and ad-supported lifestyle programming. In addition …

LONDON, April 30: This summer, Five will bring back the classic British series Superstars, which pits top athletes from different sports against each other. Produced by TWI, a division of IMG Media, Superstars is set to return as an 8×1-hour …

MUNICH/VICTORIA/LOS ANGELES, April 30: Tandem Communications, Jaffe/Braunstein Films and Muse Entertainment Enterprises have begun principal photography in Canada on Impact, a new $14-million mini-series that sees the moon struck by a burnt-out star and wreaking havoc on Earth. The four-hour …

SYDNEY, April 30: Southern Star International has sold the home-entertainment rights for the three-part, one-hour drama Midnight Man to Granada Ventures, and has completed a deal for a DVD package with PAN Vision in Scandinavia. PAN Vision picked up the …

TORONTO, April 30: At this year’s Banff World Television Festival (BWTVF), Kim Cattrall, the Golden Globe-winning star of HBO’s Sex and the City, will receive the NBC Universal Award of Distinction, which recognizes an individual's outstanding career in the broadcast …

WASHINGTON D.C., April 30: National Geographic Channels International (NGCI) has commissioned New Zealand’s NHNZ for three China-focused Megastructures programs as part of its May special on China. The three one-hour programs will focus on modern structures in China: the Shanghai …

LONDON/NEW YORK/HONG KONG, April 30: MTV EXIT (End Exploitation and Trafficking) Campaign has partnered with Radiohead to produce a music video for the band’s track All I Need, premiering on all MTV platforms globally on May 1, to raise awareness …

NEW YORK, April 30: Time Warner’s first quarter profit dropped 36 percent to $771 million, on revenues of $11.4 billion, a 2-percent rise on the same period last year. Presenting the results, Time Warner’s CEO, Jeff Bewkes, confirmed speculation that …