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SILVER SPRING, March 28: Bindi Irwin, the daughter of the late The Crocodile Hunter star Steve Irwin, will be featured in Bindi: The Jungle Girl, a new weekly series debuting on the Discovery Kids Channel on June 9, and will …

ENCINO, March 28: Documentary distributor Solid Entertainment has secured the international broadcast rights for The Real Lost World, a documentary that aired on Animal Planet about the Venezuelan site that inspired the classic novel The Lost World. Solid Entertainment plans …

LONDON, March 28: Entertainment Rights (ER) has announced that its top-rated BBC children’s series Postman Pat will premiere in the U.S. this fall as part of qubo, the multiplatform children’s service on NBC, Telemundo and ION; and that production has …

NEW YORK, March 28: VH1 has renewed its original broadband comedic series Home Purchasing Club for a second season of eight new weekly episodes, which will be available exclusively on demand on its broadband channel VSPOT and its companion syndicated …

WASHINGTON, March 28: The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) has approved the buyout of Univision Communications, the leading Spanish-language broadcaster in the U.S., by a consortium of private investors. At the same time, as the FCC gave its OK to the …

ORLANDO, March 28: Viacom today presented several new partnerships and programming developments across a number of its mobile media offerings. Philippe Dauman, Viacom’s president and CEO, unveiled these initiatives during his keynote address at the CTIA Wireless 2007 Conference, mentioning …

TORONTO, March 28: CanWest Global Communications Corp.’s acquisition of Alliance Atlantis Communications Inc is expected to be completed in July or early August of this year, the two companies announced today. As announced on January 10, 2007, Alliance Atlantis entered …

LOS ANGELES, March 28: Jason Alexander, one of the stars of the hit comedy Seinfeld has joined the cast of an untitled ABC comedy pilot. Alexander will guest-star as the internal affairs superintendent responsible for tracking down "bad apples," according …

NEW YORK, March 28: The History Channel has greenlit five new weekly series, currently in production, for premiere in prime time this year and in 2008, with the topics ranging from Alaskan survival techniques to prehistoric dinosaur clashes. The five …

LONDON, March 28: Jetix U.K. has made two acquisitions to boost its comedy lineup and has also put a new programming team in place to support programming director Dominic Gardiner. The first of the two acquired comedies is the Australian …