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LONDON, June 5: Zig Zag Productions has been commissioned by Channel 4 to produce a British version of the game-show format Relentless, due to air this fall. Relentless marks Zig Zag’s first game show for Channel 4 and signals the …

WASHINGTON, June 5: A number of independently owned cable networks, including WealthTV and HDNet, are petitioning the Federal Communications Commission to support a more competitive pay-TV programming market as they battle to secure carriage on major U.S. platforms. Several channels …

LONDON, June 5: Chapman Entertainment, behind the preschool stop-frame animation series Fifi and the Flowertots and Roary the Racing Car, is setting up its own production studio, which will become fully operational in July. The studio will be based in …

LONDON, June 5: IPTV operator Inuk Networks has received £9.5 million ($18.5 million) in second-round financing, led by Welsh broadcaster S4C’s commercial subsidiary S4C Digital Media (S4CDM) and venture-capital firm Wesley Clover. The new set of funding will be used …

DENVER, June 5: Thought Equity Motion, a supplier of online motion content licensing and management services, has appointed Sal Siino as its executive VP of worldwide sales. In his new role, Siino will oversee the company’s growing U.S. distribution operations, …

LOS ANGELES, June 5: Showtime Networks has fast-tracked the pickup of The United States of Tara, a comedy series executive produced by Steven Spielberg, DreamWorks Television and Diablo Cody, the Academy Award-winning writer of Juno. The 12×30-minute comedy, which will …

UNIVERSAL CITY, June 5: NBC Universal Domestic Television Distribution has sold Dick Wolf’s hit drama Law & Order: Special Victims Unit in more than 70 percent of the U.S. for its weekday broadcast syndication debut in fall 2009. SVU has …

NEW YORK, June 5: Verizon FiOS TV will add more than 60 new channels to its lineup this summer, including Setanta Sports, with plans to offer up to 150 HD networks by the end of the year. The new channels …

LONDON, June 5: BBC Worldwide has picked up the international distribution rights to the Canadian drama The Session, scheduled to air in the 2008-09 season on CBC. BBC Worldwide will act as the exclusive international sales partner for the series, …

SAN DIEGO, June 5: ESPN Mobile TV and NBC Sports on NBC 2Go have reached a deal with MediaFLO USA to bring 30 hours of live mobile video coverage of this year's U.S. Open golf championship to AT&T subscribers and …