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BURBANK, October 25: Beginning this Saturday, October 22, Disney Channel will debut High School Musical: The Music In You, an unscripted short-form series of 12 interstitials following a student theatre company in Fort Worth, Texas, as they learn to express …

LONDON, October 25: HIT Entertainment has licensed its popular preschool property Fireman Sam to Five and Turner Broadcasting’s Cartoonito in the U.K., for broadcast in spring 2008. Five has licensed the first five seasons and a 20-minute special of Fireman …

HONG KONG, October 25: Sony Pictures Television International’s youth-skewing anime channel Animax will roll out its new monthly subscription-based mobile service Animax Mobile in Hong Kong and Taiwan. Animax Mobile has already debuted to consumers in Hong Kong through the …

LONDON, October 25: Topping FremantleMedia Enterprises’s (FME) slate for the AFM this year is the film Fanny Hill, based on John Cleland’s novel Fanny Hill: Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure and adapted by award-winning screenwriter Andrew Davies. Produced by …

TORONTO, October 25: Peace Arch Entertainment Group has inked a deal for the exclusive Canadian distribution rights to two movies from filmmaker Uwe Boll: In The Name of the King: A Dungeon Siege Tale and Postal, for both theatrical and …

LONDON, October 25: Parthenon Kids, the children’s division of Parthenon Entertainment, has optioned the rights to Rescue Rookies, an animated preschool property from British production company Bada Bling. Parthenon has the exclusive rights to further develop the series and pitch …

WASHINGTON, D.C., October 24: The U.S. and some of its key trade partners, including the European Union, Mexico and Japan, are set to begin working together to hammer out a new agreement aimed at reducing counterfeiting and piracy around the …

MIAMI, October 24: As part of its “Green Is Universal” eco-friendly initiative kicking off next month, NBC Universal has unveiled plans to debut more than 150 hours of environmentally-themed content encompassing all of its divisions across multiple platforms. The green-themed …

NEW YORK/MOUNTAIN VIEW, October 24: The Nielsen Company and Google have entered into a multi-year, strategic relationship that aims to provide detailed data to advertisers on how and when their campaigns are being viewed, and the kinds of audiences they …

WASHINGTON, October 24: National Geographic has created a new Global Media group composed of its various magazine, book publishing, television, film, music, radio, digital media and maps units, to be headed up by Tim Kelly as president. Kelly, currently the …