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BURBANK, July 29: Disney Channel has ordered an additional 13 episodes of the Emmy-nominated series Phineas and Ferb, bringing the show’s second season to a total of 39 episodes. Phineas and Ferb, which premiered in February, ranks as the number …

LONGWOOD, July 28: The Television Syndication Company is offering up The New Detectives and The FBI Files, originally produced for the Discovery Channel by New Dominion Pictures, as one-hour weeklies for the 2008/09 syndication season. The New Detectives examines the …

SAN DIEGO, July 28: Entertainment Rights and GoAnimate.com have completed an agreement that allows users to write, create and animate their own episodes based on iconic brands such as Underdog, Richie Rich and Mr. Magoo. Beginning this September, users will …

LONDON, July 28: The BBC has commissioned a multiplatform HD documentary program, Britain From Above, to air across BBC One, Two and Four as well as online. From Lion TV, the new program will provide a bird’s eye view of …

NEW YORK, July 28: Verizon’s FiOS TV service is now available in New York City, offering 100 HD channels to 108 neighborhoods across the city’s five boroughs. The initial launch offers the FiOS TV service to some 300,000 households—delivering 100 …

LOS ANGELES, July 28: Amid an internal power struggle, the Screen Actors Guild’s (SAG) national board has backed the efforts of the union’s negotiating team to secure jurisdiction over online content and better residuals for the reuse of new media. …

LOS ANGELES, July 28: All five nominees from the category of outstanding reality/competition host—Dancing with the Stars’ Tom Bergeron, Survivor’s Jeff Probst, Deal or No Deal’s Howie Mandel, Heidi Klum of Project Runway and American Idol’s Ryan Seacrest—will host the …

LOS ANGELES, July 28: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM) Studios today unveiled THIS TV, a 24/7 linear channel featuring films and TV shows from its library—as well as kids’ fare courtesy of Cookie Jar Entertainment—that can be launched by local stations seeking to …

LONDON, July 28: Kate Shepherd has been hired by Simon Fuller’s 19 Entertainment to develop new projects from the company’s London office. Shepherd previously worked as a development producer for Endemol, overseeing shows such as Coleen’s Real Women on ITV …

BRUSSELS, July 28: The European Commission has released a report indicating that 65 percent of European broadcasters’ schedules is made up of content from within the region, with more than 37 percent hailing from independent producers. The report assessed the …