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SYDNEY, November 30: Australia’s Network Ten has unveiled the lineup for its new high-definition digital channel, TEN-HD, set to roll out December 16. TEN-HD will feature award-winning documentaries, movies, science fiction and drama series. Key titles in the science-fiction genre …

BEVERLY HILLS/PALO ALTO, November 30: Online entertainment platform Vuze has signed a mutually exclusive agreement with Hollywood talent agency United Talent Agency (UTA) to serve as their agent for business development and representation. As part of the deal, UTA will …

LONDON, November 30: Virgin Media Television’s recently launched entertainment channel Virgin 1 has announced two one-off commissions for its peak-time Envy strand: Boob Envy and Money Envy, airing this December. Boob Envy, presented by Thaila Zucci (Star Stories, Balls of …

NEW YORK, November 30: qubo, the bilingual multiplatform kids’ service, will roll out a range of new on-air programming next month, and has also expanded its online offerings with several new interactive applications. Beginning Monday, December 3, the qubo Channel …

NEW YORK, November 30: Albie Hecht’s digital entertainment studio Worldwide Biggies has inked a two-year extension agreement with Spike TV to executive produce its annual Video Game Awards. The fifth annual broadcast of the awards, taped from Mandalay Bay Events …

LONDON, November 30: FremantleMedia Enterprises (FME) has announced that the hit Australian soap Neighbours is set to roll out across Scandinavia early next year, after shoring up sales in Sweden, Norway and Finland. Neighbours, which is already shown in 57 …

LONDON, November 30: Pilot Productions has wrapped up new international sales for a range of its travel programming, including several for its Globe Trekker franchise. Pilot has pre-sold Metropolis, a 6×30-minute travel-based architectural show, to ATV Hong Kong and Viajar …

BOSTON, November 30: APT Worldwide, the international sales division of American Public Television, has picked up the international representation rights for two documentaries from New York-based Lumiere Productions: Democracy on Deadline: The Global Struggle for an Independent Press and Kansas …

SINGAPORE, November 29: FremantleMedia Enterprises (FME) has licensed 1,200 hours of programming to broadcasters in Hong Kong, Malaysia, Thailand and the Philippines. Among the new titles licensed into the region are Essence of Emeril, featuring chef Emeril Lagasse, and the …

NEW YORK, November 29: MTV Networks will make every clip from every episode of the animated Comedy Central series South Park available for free online, beginning next year. The launch of the South Park clip site—which can be found at …