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SAN JOSE, January 9: After receiving financing from Sony Pictures Entertainment in December, the web-based teen destination Gaia Online has secured an investment by Time Warner. Time Warner made the investment in a Series B funding round. Gaia Online is …

LONDON, January 9: ITV has appointed Peter Iacono, previously with Sony Pictures Motion Picture Group, as president and managing director of ITV Worldwide, the British commercial broadcaster’s international sales, distribution, merchandising, publishing and licensing arm. ITV Worldwide is part of …

LOS ANGELES, January 9: CBS and Showtime will partner to roll out a second installment of Big Brother: After Dark next month, for broadcast on the premium cable network’s SHO2 multiplex channel as a live three-hour feed from midnight to …

LAS VEGAS, January 9: NBC.com announced a new slate of content for midseason, including a partnership with iVillage on a Lipstick Jungle-related property, the launch of a new chapter in Heroes Evolution and a slew of online sites for television …

LAS VEGAS, January 8: Later this year, Samsung Electronics, MobiTV, Nokia Siemens Networks, Rohde & Schwarz and SES AMERICOM’s IP-PRIME will demonstrate a national distribution platform for mobile TV services in the U.S. that utilizes local broadcast TV spectrum. The …

LONDON, January 8: Virgin Media Television’s recently launched entertainment channel Virgin 1 has secured the exclusive premiere rights in the U.K. for City in Fear from NBC Universal International Television Distribution, for debut this month. The dramatic investigative series looks …

NEW YORK, January 8: Tabatha Coffey, a former contestant on Bravo’s reality-competition series Shear Genius, will star in a new reality pilot, tentatively titled Tabatha’s Salon Takeover, for the NBC Universal-owned cable network. The series will see the Australian native …

HONG KONG, January 8: Granada International has inked a deal with China’s Hunan TV for its hit entertainment property Saturday Night Takeaway, marking the first time that the format will be produced for an Asian audience. Hunan TV is making …

MUNICH, January 8: SevenOne International has secured new format deals with SBS 6 in the Netherlands and TV2 in Hungary for The Successor—The Next Uri Geller, which premiered in Germany today on ProSieben. The talent competition series, based on an …

LONDON, January 8: Power has tapped Andy Schreiber, a former executive at Playboy Entertainment Group, to head up its newly launched home-entertainment division as senior VP. Schreiber will relocate from Los Angeles to Power’s central London headquarters to take up …