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NEW YORK, May 1: News Corporation’s Rupert Murdoch and Apple’s Steve Jobs are among those included in Time magazine’s fifth-annual list of 100 of “The World’s Most Influential People,” which was released today. The entry on Murdoch, penned by Paul …

LOS ANGELES, May 1: TV5MONDE USA, the only 24/7 French-language channel in the U.S., will air exclusive live coverage of the 2008 Cannes Film Festival, which is set to take place from May 14 to 25. Coverage of the festival …

BURBANK, May 1: Some four years since offloading the Disney Stores in North America to The Children's Place, The Walt Disney Company has reached a deal to reacquire approximately 220 shops in the U.S. and Canada. The transaction consisted of …

BRISTOL, May 1: Off the Fence has clinched further sales following this year’s MIPTV, including deals with Animal Planet in the U.S. and History Channel in the U.K. History Channel in the U.K. picked up Crossings: Jackie Chan, a one-hour …

MUNICH/VICTORIA/LOS ANGELES, April 30: Tandem Communications, Jaffe/Braunstein Films and Muse Entertainment Enterprises have begun principal photography in Canada on Impact, a new $14-million mini-series that sees the moon struck by a burnt-out star and wreaking havoc on Earth. The four-hour …

SYDNEY, April 30: Southern Star International has sold the home-entertainment rights for the three-part, one-hour drama Midnight Man to Granada Ventures, and has completed a deal for a DVD package with PAN Vision in Scandinavia. PAN Vision picked up the …

TORONTO, April 30: At this year’s Banff World Television Festival (BWTVF), Kim Cattrall, the Golden Globe-winning star of HBO’s Sex and the City, will receive the NBC Universal Award of Distinction, which recognizes an individual's outstanding career in the broadcast …

WASHINGTON D.C., April 30: National Geographic Channels International (NGCI) has commissioned New Zealand’s NHNZ for three China-focused Megastructures programs as part of its May special on China. The three one-hour programs will focus on modern structures in China: the Shanghai …

LONDON/NEW YORK/HONG KONG, April 30: MTV EXIT (End Exploitation and Trafficking) Campaign has partnered with Radiohead to produce a music video for the band’s track All I Need, premiering on all MTV platforms globally on May 1, to raise awareness …

NEW YORK, April 30: Time Warner’s first quarter profit dropped 36 percent to $771 million, on revenues of $11.4 billion, a 2-percent rise on the same period last year. Presenting the results, Time Warner’s CEO, Jeff Bewkes, confirmed speculation that …