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NEW YORK, October 16: Verizon has launched two new channels on Verizon FiOS TV—A&E HD and the new FOX Business Network. A&E HD and FOX Business Network are the latest additions to FiOS TV Premier, a package of more than …

LONDON, October 16: IMG Media’s Darlow Smithson Productions has been commissioned by BBC One to produce the drama series The Diary of Anne Frank for a prime-time slot. The 5×30-minute series features stories of the days before her family and …

BEIJING, October 16: As part of the ongoing Singapore Season China 2007, a cultural diplomacy initiative, Chinese and Singaporean companies have forged agreements worth at least S$33.4 million ($22.7 million). In all, 17 media-related government, business and academic agreements are …

OVERLAND PARK, October 16: The U.S. wireless carrier Sprint has launched SEE (Sprint Exclusive Entertainment), a new mobile TV network delivering original on-demand programming about music, sports and entertainment news to Sprint video-enabled phones. SEE will be available at no …

TORONTO, October 16: Sullivan Entertainment has begun production on Anne of Green Gables: A New Beginning, a new three-hour prequel to the original 1985 mini-series, slated to premiere on CTV in 2008. Anne of Green Gables: A New Beginning reveals …

CANNES, October 16: PorchLight Entertainment secured a number of new international sales for its action thriller movie Hell’s Rain at MIPCOM last week. Hell’s Rain, which uses a natural disaster as its underlying theme, has been sold to TF1 in …

LOS ANGELES, October 16: Playboy TV has launched Playboy Prime, a new daily prime-time format featuring short-form programming that is designed to appeal to the “YouTube Generation,” its key 18- to 34-year-old male viewer demographic. Airing every night from 8 …

SINGAPORE, October 16: ESPN STAR Sports (ESS) will broadcast the weekly hour-long program Championship Gaming Series (CGS), focusing on professional gaming, every Monday evening across Asia. The program premiered yesterday at 6 p.m. Hong Kong time. CGS features highlights from …

LONDON, October 16: Granada International has secured a raft of sales in Latin America, including a package of more than 100 hours to Hallmark for its Latin American feed. Ideal, a new channel that launched in Brazil on October 1, …

CANNES/MUNICH, October 15: ZDF and the Tele München Group (TMG) are teaming up for a new adaptation of Jack London’s classic adventure novel The Seawolf, which will air as a two-part mini-series on Austrian broadcaster ORF. The new adaptation follows …