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LONDON, March 27: With the recent withdrawal of Toshiba’s HD DVD from the high-definition DVD format war, the Blu-ray format is expected to reach 29.4 million homes worldwide by the end of 2008, according to the Strategy Analytics Connected Home …

NEW YORK, March 27: AETN International will head to MIPTV with more than 380 new hours of non-fiction programming and an expanded catalogue of short-form content. In documentary specials, the company is offering Life After People, which debuted in the …

LONDON, March 27: Sony Pictures Television International (SPTI) has acquired a stake in Gogglebox Entertainment, a new British independent production company focused on entertainment formats for the U.K. market. The Hammersmith-based company was established by Mat Steiner and Adam Wood, …

BUENOS AIRES, March 27: Silvana D’Angelo’s new outfit, The Latin Flower Company, has formed a distribution alliance with Invento, the joint venture between Teleset and FremantleMedia. The novelas due to be covered under the agreement are still to be decided, …

MUMBAI, March 27: A new study from the U.S.-India Business Council (USIBC) has found that theft and piracy in India's entertainment industry are affecting the country’s economy, resulting in the loss of as many as 800,000 direct jobs and about …

MONTREAL, March 27: Interactive entertainment company Ludia has rolled out a new downloadable game based on the game show The Price Is Right. The Price Is Right downloadable game will be available for PCs for $19.99 on major downloadable game …

LONDON, March 27: BBC Sport has reached a new contract with the All England Club that grants the British pubcaster the rights to air the Wimbledon Championship tennis tournament for a further five years from 2010 to 2014. BBC Sport …

LOS ANGELES, March 27: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studios (MGM) has named Cale Boyter its executive VP of production, marking the first senior hire for the company’s newly appointed Worldwide Motion Picture Group’s chairperson, Mary Parent. Boyter most recently served as New Line’s …

NEW YORK, March 27: USA Network has unveiled new pilots on its development slate as well as a raft of original programs that it will premiere throughout the year, including the launch of the mini-series The Starter Wife as a …

LONDON, March 27: UKTV’s controller, Matthew Littleford, has undertaken a restructuring of the company’s commissioning department, resulting in the creation of two new director of commissioning posts and three new commissioning editor posts. Under the revised structure, the two new …