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BURBANK, January 2: BBC Motion Gallery, the stock footage division of BBC Worldwide and the exclusive global representative for the CBS News Archive, has licensed archival CBS News footage for use in Universal Pictures’ new feature film Charlie Wilson’s War. …

NEW YORK, January 2: Lifetime Networks and MyLifetime.com have partnered with Paltalk, a real-time video-based community, to produce a weekly relationship program for the social network’s interactive video platform, PaltalkScene. Titled Why Hasn’t He Called?, the series will feature relationship …

LOS ANGELES, January 2: Fox International Channels (FIC) has promoted Rohit D’silva to general manager of FIC Middle East, effective immediately. In his new role, D’silva is responsible for all FIC and National Geographic Channel business in the Middle East, …

TORONTO, December 21: Canada’s CBC Television has announced a partnership with Temple Street Productions to produce a local version of the BBC’s How Do You Solve a Problem Like Maria?, a new seven-city talent competition series that searches for Canada’s …

TORONTO, December 21: Canadian broadcaster CTV has ordered two new, one-hour original drama series—Sniper (working title) and The Listener—with production on both shows to begin in spring 2008. The two series, consisting of 13 episodes each, were part of CTV’s …

TORONTO, December 21: Global Television will premiere The Guard, a Canadian-produced original drama series, on January 22, 2008. The 13-part, one-hour action series follows four members of the Canadian Coastguard’s Search and Rescue team, and their daily battles in and …

LONDON/PARIS, December 21: Laurent Taieb has been promoted to VP of Nickelodeon and Viacom Consumer Products (NVCP) for France, as part of the company’s efforts to expand its licensing and merchandising operations in the key European market. In his new …

PARIS, December 21: The private-equity firm The Carlyle Group has joined Cinven and Altice as a shareholder of French cable platform Numericable, taking a 35-percent stake for a reported 1 billion euros. Numericable, whose high-speed network covers close to 10 …

TORONTO, December 21: The Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission (CRTC) has approved the acquisition of Alliance Atlantis’s broadcasting assets by CanWest Global Communications Corp. “We are satisfied that this transaction meets the requirements for Canadian control both in law and …

LOS ANGELES, December 21: Just a few days since announcing its refusal to grant a waiver to the Golden Globe Awards, the Writers Guild of America has said that it will allow its members to work for the Independent Spirit …