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BRISTOL, November 16: BBC Two has commissioned Icon Films to produce Tiger Kill as part of the pubcaster’s Natural World series, for broadcast in early 2008. Tiger Kill explores the trials and tribulations of capturing a tiger killing on film, …

LOS ANGELES, November 16: The Gotham Group, a management firm involved in the animation industry, has reached a deal with Fox Broadcasting Company (FOX) to produce multiple pilots for prime-time animated television projects. The Gotham Group and FOX programming executives …

WEST PALM BEACH, November 16: ION Media Networks will launch a multiplatform consumer education campaign aimed at informing the public about the transition from analog to digital television (DTV) in the U.S. on February 17, 2009. Traditional analog TV will …

MUNICH, November 16: Tele München Group (TMG) has chosen German actor Sebastian Koch to play the lead role of Captain Wolf Larsen in the two-part mini-series The Seawolf, based on Jack London’s novel of the same name. Koch is known …

LONDON, November 16: In advance of the Asia Television Forum (ATF), Cineflix International has sold 12 of its in-house, co-produced and third-party factual titles to several Asian broadcasters. Thailand’s UBC has picked up Birth Days, a series about the emotionally …

BARCELONA, November 16: Spain’s Imira Entertainment, formerly Icon Animation, has closed a number of Asian deals on four of its animated kids’ properties. From its third-party slate, Imira has sold the 52×13-minute animated comedy Rat-Man to HBO Family Channel Asia …

NEW YORK, November 16: Scholastic Media has brought on Daisy Kline as the new director of marketing and brand management and has promoted Rachel Bader to director of consumer products. Kline joins the company as director of marketing and brand …

LOS ANGELES, November 16: Universal Media Studios has begun notifying regular actors on the NBC series Bionic Woman, The Office and 30 Rock that it is suspending them on half-pay for five weeks, citing the force majeure provisions in their …

HOLLYWOOD, November 16: Steven Spielberg will be honored with the Cecil B. DeMille Award at The 65th Annual Golden Globe Awards, which will air live on NBC in January 2008. The award, voted by the Board of Directors of the …

LONDON, November 16: The British digital terrestrial platform Freeview will kick off its first TV commercials in an effort to attract those households that have not yet made the switch to a digital TV service. The TV campaign, which begins …