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SINGAPORE, March 7: ESPN STAR Sports has secured the broadcast rights in Asia for the American golf tournament, The Masters, from 2008 to 2010. ESPN STAR Sports has aired The Masters across Asia since 2003. This new deal will see …

TORONTO, March 7: The Telefilm Canada Content Creators Fellowship Program will launch at the 29th edition of the Banff World Television Festival (BWTVF), which takes place in Alberta from June 8 to 11. The deadline for entry submissions is April …

TORONTO, March 7: Hot Docs has announced the lineup of filmmakers, industry professionals and journalists who will be a part of this year’s festival jury to select the winning films in official competition. The jury will decide the winners in …

OXFORD, March 7: CITV has commissioned Novel Entertainment to produce an additional 52, 11-minute episodes of its hit animated series Horrid Henry, to broadcast on ITV1 and CITV in spring 2009. The new season of the 2-D animated series, produced …

BURBANK, March 7: Steven Piorkowski has been promoted to VP of corporate communications at Warner Bros. Entertainment. Piorkowski will work with the corporate communications team to craft overall messaging and positioning of the company for both internal and external audiences. …

NEW YORK, March 7: The Walt Disney Company will begin making its classic television series available on the Internet, according to remarks that the company’s president and CEO, Robert A. Iger, made to shareholders at an annual meeting yesterday. “In …

LONDON, March 7: The BBC has selected SIS as the preferred bidder for the Outside Broadcasts division of its commercial subsidiary, BBC Resources. The selection of SIS follows a rigorous evaluation process of bids from financial and industry buyers. The …

MUNICH, March 6: Germany’s ProSieben and Tandem Communications are working with SCI FI Channel in the U.S. on Lost City Raiders, a new $6.4 million movie starring Emmy- and Golden Globe-winner James Brolin. Principal photography on the two-hour movie is …

SANTA MONICA, March 6: VH1, which for the first time in its 23-year history has ranked among the top-10 basic-cable networks among viewers 18 to 49 in prime time according to Nielsen Media Research, has greenlit seven new productions. The …

LONDON, March 6: LIVING network has ordered Living with the Dead, an eight-part series from Original Productions UK. The show explores the most haunted homes around the U.K., and features psychic mediums Johnnie Fiori and Ian Lawman and paranormal investigator …