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NORWALK, November 20: CABLEready has closed a number of deals in Europe and Asia for factual programming, including It Could Happen Tomorrow, Perfect War and Brat Camp China. In Europe, CABLEready secured deals for Dominick Dunne's Power, Privilege & Justice …

NEW YORK, November 20: CBS members of the Writers Guild of America (WGA) voted to authorize a strike, after working without a contract for two years. About 81 percent of the nearly 300 CBS members of the WGA voted for …

SINGAPORE/HONG KONG, November 20: Actress Lucy Liu, star of the new ABC series Cashmere Mafia, will present Traffic: An MTV EXIT Special, a documentary on human trafficking that premieres in Singapore today. The documentary is aimed at raising awareness and …

LOS ANGELES, November 20: David Hasselhoff is in talks to appear on NBC’s Knight Rider in his role as Michael Knight from the original series, with The Young & the Restless’s Deanna Russo to play the female lead and fellow …

STUDIO CITY, November 20: As a reflection of its on-air rebranding earlier this year, Hallmark Channel has refreshed its consumer website and has designed several microsites dedicated to upcoming programming and marketing initiatives. On November 26, a new microsite will …

TORONTO, November 20: Prodigy Pictures and Cipango, in association with Power in the U.K., have begun principal photography on the action mini-series XIII, which will shoot in Hamilton and Toronto, Ontario through January 30. The $20-million four-hour, two-part mini-series is …

LONDON, November 20: Australian pay-TV company XYZnetworks (XYZ) has acquired 84 hours of lifestyle and music programming from FremantleMedia Enterprises (FME). Among the programs FME has licensed to XYZ are The BRIT Awards 2008, slated to air in February on …

ohm:tv Picks Up RTL II’s Welcome to the Neighborhood COLOGNE, November 20: German sales and distribution outfit ohm:tv has secured the distribution rights for RTL II’s Welcome to the Neighborhood format. ohm:tv and RTL II will jointly distribute the RTL …

LOS ANGELES, November 20: The multiplatform kids’ program service Kabillion has partnered with Crazy Pet Company for the rollout of a new microsite targeted at kids, featuring games, streaming video and other content. Located at www.kabillion.com/crazypets, Kabillion’s new microsite features …

LONDON, November 20: George Entwistle has been tapped as the new BBC controller of knowledge commissioning, charged with delivering the recently launched Knowledge Building strategy across the BBC on TV and on the Internet. Entwistle will also head BBC Vision’s …