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LONDON, November 21: Ed Williams, the director of corporate affairs at Reuters, has been named the head of corporate communications at the BBC. Williams succeeds Sally Osman, who left the BBC in September to pursue other interests. He takes up …

LONDON, November 21: A new Screen Digest study predicts that growth in true video-on-demand services among Western European households will generate increased revenues, boosting the value of video-on-demand and pay-per-view (PPV) markets in the region to 3 billion euros by …

LONDON, November 21: Disney Channel Worldwide’s Global Original Programming Division has announced deals to develop two new children’s television shows in the U.K. Following a pan-European search for creative talent, Disney Channel Worldwide has signed agreements with U.K. production companies …

LOS ANGELES, November 21: CBS Corporation’s president and CEO, Leslie Moonves and Warner Bros. Entertainment’s chairman and CEO Barry Meyer have sent letters out to their employees updating them on the status of the Writers Guild of America (WGA) strike …

NORWALK, November 20: CABLEready has closed a number of deals in Europe and Asia for factual programming, including It Could Happen Tomorrow, Perfect War and Brat Camp China. In Europe, CABLEready secured deals for Dominick Dunne's Power, Privilege & Justice …

NEW YORK, November 20: CBS members of the Writers Guild of America (WGA) voted to authorize a strike, after working without a contract for two years. About 81 percent of the nearly 300 CBS members of the WGA voted for …

SINGAPORE/HONG KONG, November 20: Actress Lucy Liu, star of the new ABC series Cashmere Mafia, will present Traffic: An MTV EXIT Special, a documentary on human trafficking that premieres in Singapore today. The documentary is aimed at raising awareness and …

LOS ANGELES, November 20: David Hasselhoff is in talks to appear on NBC’s Knight Rider in his role as Michael Knight from the original series, with The Young & the Restless’s Deanna Russo to play the female lead and fellow …

STUDIO CITY, November 20: As a reflection of its on-air rebranding earlier this year, Hallmark Channel has refreshed its consumer website and has designed several microsites dedicated to upcoming programming and marketing initiatives. On November 26, a new microsite will …

TORONTO, November 20: Prodigy Pictures and Cipango, in association with Power in the U.K., have begun principal photography on the action mini-series XIII, which will shoot in Hamilton and Toronto, Ontario through January 30. The $20-million four-hour, two-part mini-series is …