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LUCERNE, November 15: The Rose d'Or Festival, which honors the best of international television programming, has announced that it is now accepting submissions for the 2008 Rose d’Or awards and has unveiled several newly revised award categories. The awards will …

SYDNEY, November 15: The Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC) will roll out ABC3, a new dedicated terrestrial commercial-free children’s TV channel, by April of 2008, with financial backing from the government. The Australian government has committed to provide $82 million over …

WASHINGTON, November 15: Retirement Living TV (RLTV), the first network dedicated to people 55 and older, has announced that former CBS news anchor Walter Cronkite has joined the channel as a contributor to its live daily program Daily Café. Cronkite’s …

LOS ANGELES, November 15: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studios (MGM) has tapped Paul Verhoeven to direct the thriller The Thomas Crown Affair 2, which will be produced with Pierce Brosnan’s Irish DreamTime Productions. Verhoeven has directed films like Basic Instinct, RoboCop, Starship Troopers …

LONDON, November 15: Five has commissioned Lion Television to produce a 15-part travel series titled The Rough Guide To…, based on the travel books of the same name. The show will be presented by Julia Bradbury from BBC One’s Watchdog …

MUNICH, November 15: SevenOne International will distribute ProSieben’s new antiwar-themed movie The Bridge, starring Franka Potente. The Bridge has just finished filming in Latvia under the direction of Wolfgang Panzer. The movie is a modern remake of Gregor Dorfmeister’s autobiographical …

TORONTO, November 14: Peace Arch Entertainment has acquired all the worldwide distribution rights to the thriller Devil’s Mercy. Currently in post-production, the film stars Stephen Rea (V For Vendetta, The Crying Game) and Deborah Valente (Resident Evil: Apocalypse), and centers …

NORWALK, November 14: CABLEready has secured the exclusive worldwide rights outside of the U.S. to the Weather Channel series Epic Conditions and the TV Guide Network series Celebrity Says!, for debut at the Asia Television Forum this month. Epic Conditions, …

NEW YORK, November 14: The NBC Owned-and-Operated Stations Group has been renamed the NBC Local Media Division, and has announced two key leadership appointments within the unit. The new name NBC Local Media Division reflects the group's mission to be …

STOCKHOLM, November 14: Following the recent acquisitions of production companies Kanakna and Bullseye TV, Zodiak Television has announced organizational changes in all four of its regions—Continental Europe, West, East and Nordic. The acquisition of the Benelux production company Kanakna secured …