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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 …

LOS ANGELES, October 17: Mark Itkin, Peter Roth, Nancy Tellem and Bob Wright have been named as the recipients of the fifth annual Brandon Tartikoff Legacy Awards, to be presented on January 28 during the NATPE 2008 Conference & Exhibition …

NEW YORK/LOS ANGELES, October 17: BBC Worldwide America and Sony Pictures Television have been commissioned by FOX to co-produce a U.S. pilot of Some Mothers Do Ave Em, the classic British comedy created by Ray Allen. Philip Stark (That 70’s …

LONDON, October 17: Just two weeks since The Tudors’ launch on BBC Two, the pubcaster has announced the acquisition of the second season of the acclaimed Showtime drama. Starring Jonathan Rhys Meyers, The Tudors chronicles the early life of Henry …

LOS ANGELES, October 17: Judd Apatow, the hit filmmaker behind Knocked Up, The 40 Year Old Virgin and Superbad, has come on board as principal and partner in FunnyorDie.com, the popular online destination founded by Hollywood comedians Will Ferrell and …

TORONTO, October 17: Peace Arch Entertainment Group has inked an exclusive multi-picture deal with Insight Film Studios to distribute four feature films in Canada: When a Man Falls In The Forest, Operation Espionage, Higher Education and Numb. The comedy Numb …

LOS ANGELES, October 16: Playboy TV has launched Playboy Prime, a new daily prime-time format featuring short-form programming that is designed to appeal to the “YouTube Generation,” its key 18- to 34-year-old male viewer demographic. Airing every night from 8 …

SINGAPORE, October 16: ESPN STAR Sports (ESS) will broadcast the weekly hour-long program Championship Gaming Series (CGS), focusing on professional gaming, every Monday evening across Asia. The program premiered yesterday at 6 p.m. Hong Kong time. CGS features highlights from …

LONDON, October 16: Granada International has secured a raft of sales in Latin America, including a package of more than 100 hours to Hallmark for its Latin American feed. Ideal, a new channel that launched in Brazil on October 1, …