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HARRINGTON PARK, September 3: Alfred Haber Distribution, Inc. (AHDI) has been appointed as the exclusive international distributor for the 15th annual Screen Actors Guild (SAG) Awards, which will air live on the TNT and TBS Television Networks in the U.S. …

ABU DHABI, September 3: Abu Dhabi Media Company is creating a new venture, imagenation abu dhabi, which intends to spend more than $1 billion over the next five years on creating feature films and digital content. Abu Dhabi Media Company …

BUENOS AIRES, September 3: Production has begun at the Dori Media Contenidos studios in Argentina for Amanda O, the first telenovela produced for television, the Internet and mobile phones. The program will launch in October at MIPCOM. Episode number and …

LONDON/COSTA MESA, September 3: NDS has released a survey of DVR users in the U.S., finding that 80 percent can’t live without the device, which was ranked as the third-most indispensable household item after the washing machine and the microwave …

VICTORIA, September 3: The Australian Children’s Television Foundation has completed Spanish and Latin American deals on the live-action children’s program Lockie Leonard. The program will make its Spanish-language debut on Cartoon Network Spain through Luk Internacional S.A. and Cartoon Network …

LOS ANGELES, September 3: The Alliance of Motion Picture & Television Producers (AMPTP) remains at odds with the Screen Actors Guild (SAG), taking issue with a 12-page mailer the union sent to its members regarding negotiations for a new contract. …

HALIFAX, September 3: DHX Media’s Halifax Film subsidiary will produce six episodes of a new one-hour family drama series for Vision TV in Canada. Mahalia, which is the working title, follows Mahalia Brown, a gifted young gospel singer who is …

ENGLEWOOD, September 3: John Malone’s Liberty Media has announced plans to spin off its Liberty Entertainment business, which will become a publicly traded entity encompassing 50 percent of The DIRECTV Group and 100 percent of Starz Entertainment, among other assets. …

LOS ANGELES, September 3: Ovation TV will celebrate the 90th anniversary of American conductor and composer Leonard Bernstein’s birth, and the 50th anniversary of his debut at Carnegie Hall, with the premiere of Leonard Bernstein Reflections. This 1978 film is …

NEW YORK, September 3: KPI, a unit of Lightworks Producing Group, has received commissions for two global documentary projects, Extinction by Gladiator and Apocalypse Now, for Animal Planet and Discovery Channel, respectively. Extinction by Gladiator will debut on Animal Planet …