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LOS ANGELES/UNTERFOEHRING, June 6: Rüdiger Böss, the head of program acquisitions at ProSiebenSat.1 Media gives World Screen Newsflash his perspective on the new crop of pilots he screened in Los Angeles. After watching the new shows presented by the studios …

NEW YORK, June 6: Total advertising expenditures in the first quarter of 2007 decreased by 0.3 percent to $34.93 billion as compared to the same period in 2006, according to TNS Media Intelligence. “After a sluggish January, the pace of …

NEW YORK, June 6: FremantleMedia Enterprises (FME) and @radical.media, announced a first-look development deal and alliance, which will enable the worldwide distribution of traditional and non-traditional content across all platforms. The arrangement, which takes effect immediately, is expected to bring …

LONDON, June 6: The U.K. commercial broadcaster ITV has acquired Pushing Daisies from Warner Bros. International Television, and Swingtown and Cane from CBS Paramount International Television. Pushing Daisies, a forensic fairytale about a young man who has the ability to …

NEW YORK, June 6: Ron Meyer has signed a new five-year contract to continue as president and COO of Universal Studios. Meyer will remain Universal Studio's top executive through at least 2012, continuing to lead NBC Universal's motion picture, parks …

LONDON, June 5: BSkyB’s pay-TV entertainment channel Sky One has secured the exclusive rights to the series Prison Break from rival terrestrial broadcaster Five, for premiere this fall. Sky One beat out Five for the rights to the third season …

NEW YORK, June 5: Spike Lee plans to return to New Orleans to follow up on the stories that were told in his four-hour Peabody Award winning HBO documentary When the Levees Broke: A Requiem in Four Acts, about the …

OTTAWA, June 5: Amberwood Entertainment has been commissioned by YTV in Canada to produce RollBots, a new 3-D animated action-comedy series targeted at kids aged 6-11. The new series will initially be comprised of 26 half hours, and will commence …

MIAMI, June 5: As part of its new strategy to localize the company, Viacom-owned MTV Networks Latin America (MTVNLA) has announced a number of new executive appointments for MTV and VH1 Latin America’s programming and production teams. In line with …

NEW YORK, June 5: United Nations (UN) deputy secretary-general Dr. Asha-Rose Migiro, and Bindi Irwin, daughter of Crocodile Hunter star Steve Irwin, celebrated the launch of the new Discovery Kids Channel series, Bindi: The Jungle Girl at the UN headquarters …