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CANNES, October 17: Filmon.com, a new download portal set to launch November 1, has secured content deals with more than 50 companies, including CBC in Canada for 140 hours of television programming. The new deals expand Filmon.com’s library to more …

NEW YORK, October 17: New research from The Nielsen Company reveals that the number of U.S. households with digital video recorders has risen to 20.5 percent of its National People Meter sample, up from 16.2 percent in May 2007 and …

LOS ANGELES, October 17: In an effort to capitalize on the recent growth in the global distribution of Indian content, the Indian Film and Television Producers Guild will actively participate in the AFM this year under the National Umbrella Program …

LOS ANGELES, October 17: In a bid to make some progress in its talks with the writers unions, the Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers (AMPTP) has dropped a contentious proposal related to residual payments from the reuse of …

GRÜNWALD, October 17: Brand management and media company m4e and Berlin-based production company Hahn Film have established the joint production company Lucky Punch. The new company has headquarters in Grünwald near Munich and a subsidiary in Berlin. Lucky Punch will …

NEW YORK, October 17: CBS Corporation’s president and CEO, Leslie Moonves, has reached a new agreement to extend his employment with the company through September 30, 2011. The new agreement supersedes Moonves’s prior contract. Under the terms of the agreement, …

HONG KONG/LOS ANGELES, October 17: STAR is looking to boost the distribution of its Hindi- and Mandarin-language programming in North America with the opening of a sales office in Los Angeles. The new office will be headed up by David …

NEW YORK/LOS ANGELES, October 17: In a deal with Disney-ABC Domestic Television, SCI FI Channel and G4 have secured the off-network cable rights to existing episodes of the hit ABC drama Lost, extending through all six seasons of the series. …

LONDON, October 17: Setanta and Virgin Media have appointed Geoff Hill as editor-in-chief of the soon-to-be-launched Setanta Sports News channel, produced by ITN. Hill, who has served as a senior program editor at ITN, will set the daily sports news …

LOS ANGELES, October 17: George Lucas has begun work on a live-action TV series based on the Star Wars franchise, according to published reports. Lucas told the Los Angeles Times that the TV adaptation would focus on some of the …