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LOS ANGELES, March 3: Silicon Valley venture capital firms Accel Partners and Venrock are teaming with the William Morris Agency and AT&T to create a new investment vehicle to support digital media innovators in Southern California. Accel, William Morris Agency …

NEW YORK, March 3: The CW’s family comedy series Everybody Hates Chris will join Nick at Nite’s lineup in September 2009. The deal with CBS Television Distribution includes a four-year license period for a minimum of four seasons (80 episodes). …

STOCKHOLM, March 3: Modern Times Group’s (MTG) Viasat Broadcasting has inked an agreement to add TVNorge to its DTH satellite platform and for TV3 to be made available on the Canal Digital satellite platform. Viasat will include TVNorge in its …

MAINZ, March 3: ZDF Enterprises announced that actor Karl Markovics, who stars in the Oscar-winning film The Counterfeiters, will play the lead role in the UFA production Ship of No Return—The Final Voyage of the Gustloff. In Ship of No …

LONDON, March 3: Galleon Holdings has signed an exclusive co-production agreement with China’s Guangdong TV Sports Channel and the U.K.’s Chelsea Football Club for Super Soccer Star, a new multiplatform reality soccer talent program. The 13×30-minute show is currently going …

BRISTOL, March 3: Tigress Productions has been commissioned by Five to produce a new event series, Jaguar Adventure with Nigel Marven, set to air later this year. Jaguar Adventure with Nigel Marven follows the presenter and naturalist in search of …

SINGAPORE, March 3: Effective May 14, Man Shu Sum will resign from his post as the director of the Singapore Film Commission (SFC) and the director of strategic relations at the Media Development Authority of Singapore (MDA), to begin his …

SAN FRANCISCO, March 3: VIZ Media’s Blue Dragon will debut in the U.S. on Cartoon Network this spring. The series is based on a videogame for Microsoft’s Xbox 360 console, developed by Hironobu Sakaguchi, the creator of Final Fantasy, and …

PARIS, February 29: Lagardère Television International (LTI) has been selected as the exclusive representative for the international distribution of the English-language Art Channel, dedicated to short-form content on art, within Eastern Europe, Scandinavia, Africa and Russia. Launched in March 2007, …

NEW YORK, February 29: Viacom’s profit for the fourth quarter was up 16 percent to $559.5 million, while net income for the year gained 15 percent to $1.8 billion. For the full year of 2007, revenues increased 18 percent to …