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BURBANK, October 25: Beginning this Saturday, October 22, Disney Channel will debut High School Musical: The Music In You, an unscripted short-form series of 12 interstitials following a student theatre company in Fort Worth, Texas, as they learn to express …

LONDON, October 25: HIT Entertainment has licensed its popular preschool property Fireman Sam to Five and Turner Broadcasting’s Cartoonito in the U.K., for broadcast in spring 2008. Five has licensed the first five seasons and a 20-minute special of Fireman …

HONG KONG, October 25: Sony Pictures Television International’s youth-skewing anime channel Animax will roll out its new monthly subscription-based mobile service Animax Mobile in Hong Kong and Taiwan. Animax Mobile has already debuted to consumers in Hong Kong through the …

HONG KONG, October 24: STAR has made several key appointments for its programming and production team, including naming Todd Lituchy as president of entertainment. Based in Hong Kong, Lituchy will oversee STAR’s program planning, production, network creative services, research and …

NEW YORK/LONDON, October 24: Lion Television has restructured its management team, with Tony Tackaberry promoted to CEO of the company, based in the U.S., and Tracy Green taking on an expanded role within Lion's parent company, All3Media in the U.K. …

BURBANK, October 24: In a federal court in Los Angeles today, DIC Entertainment lodged a suit against the Troll Company (TC), alleging “claims of fraud in the inducement and negligent misrepresentation” in connection with its deals for the original Good …

WASHINGTON, D.C., October 24: The U.S. and some of its key trade partners, including the European Union, Mexico and Japan, are set to begin working together to hammer out a new agreement aimed at reducing counterfeiting and piracy around the …

MIAMI, October 24: As part of its “Green Is Universal” eco-friendly initiative kicking off next month, NBC Universal has unveiled plans to debut more than 150 hours of environmentally-themed content encompassing all of its divisions across multiple platforms. The green-themed …

NEW YORK/MOUNTAIN VIEW, October 24: The Nielsen Company and Google have entered into a multi-year, strategic relationship that aims to provide detailed data to advertisers on how and when their campaigns are being viewed, and the kinds of audiences they …

WASHINGTON, October 24: National Geographic has created a new Global Media group composed of its various magazine, book publishing, television, film, music, radio, digital media and maps units, to be headed up by Tim Kelly as president. Kelly, currently the …