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LOS ANGELES, July 12: Among a host of announcements made at the Television Critics Association (TCA) press tour today, HBO unveiled plans for a new comedy series, executive produced by Simon Fuller, featuring Matt Lucas and David Walliams, the stars …

BARCELONA, July 12: Neptuno Films has taken on selected distribution rights to the 3-D animated preschool series Katakune, a co-production between Singapore’s Character Farm and China’s Wogee Toons. The 52×11-minute episodes or 260×2-minute episodes are scheduled to be completed by …

ALVISO/SEATTLE, July 11: TiVo subscribers can now purchase and rent movies and TV shows from Amazon Unbox directly from their DVRs. The service is available to all broadband-connected TiVo Series2 and Series3 subscribers. "We are excited to make Amazon Unbox …

LONDON, July 11: Sony Pictures Television International (SPTI) has appointed former Warner Bros. Animation chief Sander Schwartz to head up the company’s global production efforts as the president of international production, reporting to SPTI’s president, Michael Grindon. Schwartz will relocate …

ATLANTA, July 11: Court TV, owned by Turner Broadcasting System, is rebranding as truTV, effective January 1, 2008, and has put four new projects into development, including ones from Granada America and Bunim/Murray Productions. “The success of the Turner Entertainment …

LONDON, July 11: The British television producer and distributor DCD Media has acquired three independent television production companies: Prospect Pictures, September Holdings and West Park Pictures. DCD Media has conditionally agreed to acquire the entire issued share capital of each …

NEW YORK, July 11: NBC News has created Peacock Productions, a new nonfiction production company that will offer a wide-range of programming to NBC Universal television, its cable channels, including MSNBC, and other global broadcast and cable networks. Peacock Productions …

NEW YORK, July 11: Twentieth Century Fox has agreed to a long-term extension of its U.S. output deal with Home Box Office (HBO). Twentieth Century Fox’s renewal of its deal with HBO extends the relationship between the two companies well …

SINGAPORE, July 11: Mark Burnett Productions has partnered with Singaporean company Imagine OmniMedia to produce a version of the U.S. reality boxing series The Contender in Singapore, to be broadcast on the AXN network throughout Asia from October. Entitled The …

HO CHI MINH CITY, July 11: At a seminar in Vietnam co-organized by the Cable & Satellite Broadcasting Association of Asia (CASBAA), the industry association hailed the gains made in that market, but stressed that regulations needed to be put …