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LONDON, November 9: Granada International has announced that the British sci-fi action TV series The Champions will be remade as a film by the Hollywood studio United Artists. Guillermo del Toro (Pan’s Labyrinth, Hell Boy, Blade II) will write, direct …

HONG KONG/BANGKOK, November 9: STAR, Thai pay-TV operator TrueVisions and multimedia group GMM Media have entered into a three-way joint venture for the music and youth entertainment network Channel [V] Thailand. STAR will hold a 49-percent stake in the joint …

LONDON, November 9: The BBC Natural History Unit is working with Discovery on the production of two new series of the Expedition strand for broadcast on BBC One in 2008. The two series are titled Expedition Guyana and Expedition New …

WASHINGTON/MUMBAI, November 9: TinselVision, an online VOD channel targeted at South Asian audiences, has inked a deal for the digital distribution of Bollywood films from India’s Yash Raj Films (YRF). Through the agreement, TinselVision has obtained the rights to distribute, …

TORONTO, November 9: The sports media and entertainment company Insight Sports has reached its first carriage agreement in the U.S. for the Canadian-based World Fishing Network (WFN), which will launch on Verizon FiOS TV. WFN will be available in 12 …

NEW YORK, November 9: My Damn Channel, an entertainment studio and new-media platform for content creators, has launched the Big Fat Brain Channel, which will roll out two new original comedy series: Itty Bitty Liddy and Tim After Tim. Located …

DENVER, November 9: Thought Equity Motion has launched Premier Partner Program, a new distribution system that will make its footage collection more readily available to clients in Europe and Latin America. The new distribution system will be provided in conjunction …

CALGARY, November 9: The Shaw Rocket Fund has announced that it is now accepting submissions for the 2008 Shaw Rocket Prize, which awards C$50,000 to the best independently produced Canadian youth or family program. This year, the Shaw Rocket Prize …

BURBANK, November 9: Fiscal 2007 profit at The Walt Disney Company rose 39 percent to $4.7 billion, while profit for the fourth quarter was up 38 percent to $877 million. “We’ve delivered another year of outstanding financial results, powered by …

MONTEREY, November 9: A new SNL Kagan study on high-definition television revealed that the U.S. leads the global pay-HDTV market with 6 million homes accessing those services via cable, satellite or IPTV subscriptions by the end of this year. However, …