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ATLANTA, August 21: Extending its Get Animated healthy lifestyles initiative, Cartoon Network has unveiled Props, a one-hour special that will give six select kids a chance to spend time with their celebrity heroes, including tennis icons Venus and Serena Williams …

NEW YORK, August 21: Comedy Central has announced its fall programming schedule, which will feature the return of series like South Park alongside the premiere of the comedic reality series Kenny vs. Spenny. Several series have made it back onto …

NEW YORK, August 21: The Associated Press (AP) has reached an agreement with NBC Sports and NBC Olympics to be the exclusive news agency for the online distribution of select NBC-produced text content and video links related to the 2008 …

LONDON, August 21: S4C International has announced new deals on its successful preschool property Hana’s Helpline with RAI, Nickelodeon Australia, Hop! Channel in Israel and France’s Piwi. The deals are in addition to previous sales to broadcasters including ZDF and …

LONDON, August 21: Ranking the Stars, a format distributed by Outright Distribution, has been licensed for a first run on Belgium’s VTM and a second season on BNN (on Ned 3) in the Netherlands, and has been optioned in seven …

LONDON, August 21: Cake Distribution’s animated series Skunk Fu! has been licensed into the U.S. via The CW’s Kids’ WB! Saturday morning block. The 52×12-minute property, created by Aidan Harte, is targeted to children aged 6 to 12. It is …

AMSTERDAM, August 21: Off the Fence has licensed a range of factual programming to channels in Russia, including a deal with NTS for 15 hours of content. Among the titles in the NTS deal are JFK’s Women—The Scandals Revealed, a …

BURBANK, August 20: The Friday prime-time premiere of High School Musical 2, executive produced by Bill Borden and Barry Rosenbush, attracted 17.2 million viewers, ranking as the most-watched basic cable telecast in history. High School Musical 2, which premiered on …

LOS ANGELES, August 20: Paramount Pictures and DreamWorks Animation have announced that they will exclusively support the HD DVD format instead of Sony’s Blu-ray technology. The exclusive HD DVD commitment will include all movies distributed by Paramount Pictures, DreamWorks Pictures, …

BASKING RIDGE/LOS ANGELES, August 20: Verizon Wireless and CBS Mobile have teamed to offer full-length commercial-free episodes of the Late Show with David Letterman and The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson to subscribers of Verizon’s V CAST Video service, …