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HONG KONG, June 20: The Asian premiere of Sony Pictures Television International's (SPTI) game-show format Power of 10 notched up strong ratings on Sony Entertainment Television (SET) in India, drawing more than 16 million viewers in the first two days …

MONTREAL, June 20: The National Film Board of Canada (NFB) will feature seven animated shorts on YouTube’s new channel The Screening Room. The NFB shorts launch on The Screening Room today with Oscar-winner The Danish Poet by Torill Kove. The …

NEW YORK, June 20: Showtime is collaborating with former Friends star Matthew Perry and Peter Tolan, the co-creator and executive producer of the FX drama Rescue Me, on a new dark comedy, The End of Steve. According to published reports, …

HONG KONG, June 19: India’s INX Media will roll out its Hindi general-entertainment channel 9X, along with its music network 9XM, in the Middle East. INX Media has appointed Dubai-based consultancy outfit Media Solutions to spearhead its expansion into the …

LOS ANGELES, June 19: YouTube is rolling out a dedicated area that will showcase an international selection of short and feature-length films, allowing filmmakers from around the world to distribute their work and generate revenue. The YouTube Screening Room will …

NEW YORK, June 19: Susanne Daniels will resign from her post as the president of entertainment at Lifetime Networks, remaining in the position until she has identified a successor. Daniels, who joined Lifetime in August 2005, is responsible for all …

LONDON, June 19: BBC Worldwide has outsourced the collection of its secondary and tertiary rights revenues to Compact Collections in a four-year deal. Compact Collections will collect revenue for international cable and satellite retransmission, educational copying, public performance levies and …

LOS ANGELES/LONDON, June 19: Twentieth Century Fox Television and British commercial broadcaster ITV have inked an international programming partnership that includes the creation of local versions of select titles in each other’s libraries. A British version of Dharma and Greg …

LONDON, June 19: According to PricewaterhouseCooopers (PwC), the global entertainment and media market will be worth some $2.2 trillion in 2012, with a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 6.6 percent over the next five years. A key trend going …

NEW YORK, June 19: Martha Stewart Living Omnimedia (MSLO) has named Orlando Reece as its senior VP of broadcast sales, building integrated programs for clients and leading the sales efforts for all the company’s broadcast properties. Reece comes to MSLO …