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LONDON, July 14: The DCD Media-owned September Films beat out four other British independent producers for the rights to produce Pregnant Man, an hour-long documentary that has been acquired by Channel 4 in the U.K. and Discovery in the U.S. …

ATLANTA, July 14: The National Basketball Association (NBA) and Cartoon Network Enterprises (CNE) have teamed up to create a joint consumer products and promotion campaign based on the hit series Ben 10: Alien Force. A youth apparel line, which integrates …

LOS ANGELES, July 14: Crash, a new 13-episode drama inspired by the Academy Award-winning best motion picture of 2006, will premiere on October 17 on Starz. Set in Los Angeles, Crash, which will air weekly at 10 p.m., explores social …

LONDON, July 14: Sony Computer Entertainment and Sky have unveiled Go!View, a VOD service for PlayStation Portable (PSP) in the U.K. and Ireland, featuring content from Disney-ABC-ESPN Television, BBC Worldwide and NBC Universal, among others. Go!View allows PSP users to …

BEVERLY HILLS, July 11: Animal Planet is teaming with Go Go Luckey Entertainment, the production house behind MTV’s Laguna Beach, for two new series: Creature, premiering in the fall, and Jockeys, set to launch in January 2009. Announcing the deal …

ENGLEWOOD, July 11: DISH Network plans to launch 17 new national high-definition channels, bringing its total offering to more than 100 HD services, five months ahead of its target date for passing that milestone. The new HD channels include ActionMax …

SILVER SPRING, July 11: This October, Discovery Channel in the U.S. will premiere Iditarod, a six-part original series from Original Productions examining the famed sled dog race. The series follows participants of the 1,150-mile Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race from …

WINNIPEG, July 11: Despite a 15-percent rise in revenues to C$851.8 million for the third quarter, Canwest Global Communications has posted a loss of C$28.4 million, versus the C$8.4 million profit in the year-ago period, as a result of a …

NEW YORK, July 11: Time Warner Cable has reached a deal to sell off certain “non-core” cable systems to Windjammer Communications, a venture of MAST Capital Management and Communication Construction Services (CCS). The systems serve about 80,000 basic video subscribers …

LONDON, July 11: Multichannel TV penetration in the Middle East and North Africa is expected to reach 72 percent by 2013, according to a new report by Informa Telecoms & Media, up from 61 percent this year. That growth, which …