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NEW YORK, August 25: SCI FI Channel and MGM Television Entertainment have reached an agreement to extend the hit Stargate franchise with a new series to premiere in summer 2009. Production on the first season of Stargate Universe will begin …

NEW YORK, August 25: Marvel Entertainment is teaming up with Japanese animation studio Madhouse to create new versions of its characters for the Japanese market that will be used in four upcoming series. Madhouse and Marvel will work together to …

NEW YORK, August 22: The second season of the animated preschool series Pinky Dinky Doo will premiere on Noggin September 7 as part of the network’s Get Ready to Read month. The season-two launch will air during an all-day marathon …

MUNICH, August 22: The hit ProSieben event game show Beat your Host!, distributed by SevenOne International, will make its debut in Sweden on Kanal 5 on September 9 under the title Vem kan slå Filip och Fredrik. The show will …

LONDON, August 22: ITV1 has commissioned Initial West, an Endemol company, to produce the Vegas-style quiz show Spin Star, to air in its fall schedule, and has announced the addition of Sex and the City’s Cynthia Nixon to the cast …

BURBANK, August 22: Magician and endurance artist David Blaine will attempt his latest stunt, hanging upside down as he walks on the underside of a wire, live on a two-hour prime-time special on ABC. Beginning the morning of September 22, …

LONDON, August 22: A raft of new entertainment, factual and history programs, including the three-part 1968 Unseen, join returning series on Five’s fall schedule. In the 1960s, broadcaster Bernard Braden recorded more than 350 interviews with leaders from the worlds …

NEW YORK, August 22: Harbinger Capital Management has increased its stake in Cablevision Systems Corporation to 8.1 percent (18.95 million shares), according to a regulatory filing released Thursday. The filing shows that Harbinger bought an additional 7.8 million shares in …

NEW YORK, August 22: Barry Diller’s IAC/InterActiveCorp has completed its spin-off of cable shopping network HSN, Ticketmaster, Interval Leisure Group and Tree.com as separate publicly traded companies, a move intended to give each more focus and value. “Armed with outstanding …

LONDON, August 22: The AOL-owned social-networking site Bebo, home to Internet series such as KateModern, The Gap Year and Sofia’s Diary, has appointed Kelly Brett as its new head of original productions. Based in London, Brett will be responsible for …