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LAS VEGAS, January 9: NBC.com announced a new slate of content for midseason, including a partnership with iVillage on a Lipstick Jungle-related property, the launch of a new chapter in Heroes Evolution and a slew of online sites for television …

TORONTO, January 9: Corus Entertainment has extended its multi-year broadcast partnership with MTV Networks International to encompass all digital rights for Nickelodeon and related brands, covering broadcast, broadband, mobile, video-on-demand, pay-per-view, electronic sell-through and gaming. Under the new multiplatform agreement …

TORONTO, January 9: Disney’s Bernard Gershon, along with ESPN’s chairman emeritus Herbert A. “Herb” Granath and Greycroft’s Drew Lipsher have been added to the schedule for the History Makers 2008 Summit, which is scheduled to take place in New York …

NEW YORK, January 9: RHI Entertainment’s two-hour movie Journey to the Center of the Earth will premiere during ION Television Network’s RHI Movie Weekend block on Sunday, January 27. The newest adaptation of the classic novel by Jules Verne stars …

LONDON, January 9: ALL3MEDIA International has inked a deal with independent Swiss producer allcomm productions for the distribution rights to the weight-loss format Village on a Diet. Village on a Diet was produced by allcomm productions for SF Channel 1 …

MUNICH, January 8: SevenOne International has secured new format deals with SBS 6 in the Netherlands and TV2 in Hungary for The Successor—The Next Uri Geller, which premiered in Germany today on ProSieben. The talent competition series, based on an …

LONDON, January 8: Power has tapped Andy Schreiber, a former executive at Playboy Entertainment Group, to head up its newly launched home-entertainment division as senior VP. Schreiber will relocate from Los Angeles to Power’s central London headquarters to take up …

LAS VEGAS, January 8: Comcast Corporation has revealed three major content initiatives at the 2008 Consumer Electronics Show, including Project Infinity, the company’s plan to offer consumers the ability to watch any movie, television show, user-generated content or other video …

SÃO PAULO, January 8: Globo TV International has reported an increase in its business across Asia, securing interest from broadcasters region-wide for productions like the telenovela Pages of Life and the mini-series Amazonia. “Asia is a strategic market with great …

HOLLYWOOD, January 8: The 65th Annual Golden Globe Awards gala ceremony, slated to take place at the Beverly Hilton in Los Angeles on Sunday, has been scrapped as a result of the Writers Guild of America (WGA) strike and replaced …