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BEVERLY HILLS/PALO ALTO, November 30: Online entertainment platform Vuze has signed a mutually exclusive agreement with Hollywood talent agency United Talent Agency (UTA) to serve as their agent for business development and representation. As part of the deal, UTA will …

LONDON, November 30: Virgin Media Television’s recently launched entertainment channel Virgin 1 has announced two one-off commissions for its peak-time Envy strand: Boob Envy and Money Envy, airing this December. Boob Envy, presented by Thaila Zucci (Star Stories, Balls of …

NEW YORK, November 30: qubo, the bilingual multiplatform kids’ service, will roll out a range of new on-air programming next month, and has also expanded its online offerings with several new interactive applications. Beginning Monday, December 3, the qubo Channel …

NEW YORK, November 30: Albie Hecht’s digital entertainment studio Worldwide Biggies has inked a two-year extension agreement with Spike TV to executive produce its annual Video Game Awards. The fifth annual broadcast of the awards, taped from Mandalay Bay Events …

LONDON, November 30: FremantleMedia Enterprises (FME) has announced that the hit Australian soap Neighbours is set to roll out across Scandinavia early next year, after shoring up sales in Sweden, Norway and Finland. Neighbours, which is already shown in 57 …

LONDON, November 30: Pilot Productions has wrapped up new international sales for a range of its travel programming, including several for its Globe Trekker franchise. Pilot has pre-sold Metropolis, a 6×30-minute travel-based architectural show, to ATV Hong Kong and Viajar …

BOSTON, November 30: APT Worldwide, the international sales division of American Public Television, has picked up the international representation rights for two documentaries from New York-based Lumiere Productions: Democracy on Deadline: The Global Struggle for an Independent Press and Kansas …

BRUSSELS, November 30: The European Parliament has approved a package of broadcasting reforms that includes easing restrictions on product placement in TV programs. The new broadcasting rules cover issues ranging from scheduling commercials and cross-border transmissions, to junk food bans …

LOS ANGELES, November 30: Joy Tashjian Marketing Group (JTMG), on behalf of producers Juma Entertainment and The Gurin Company, has concluded a number of licensing agreements for toy and game product lines based around the NBC variety competition series The …

LOS ANGELES, November 30: During negotiations between the striking Writers Guild of America (WGA) and the Alliance of Motion Picture & Television Producers (AMPTP), yesterday the AMPTP, representing the studios, made a proposal regarding compensation for new-media content, but the …