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MIAMI, June 5: In an effort to reduce clutter for its advertisers, Telemundo, the Spanish-language network serving the U.S. Hispanic market, will reformat its prime-time advertising breaks in order to introduce its new Power Pod, which makes the first commercial …

LONDON, June 5: Despite pleas from Prince William and Prince Harry not to broadcast pictures of the car crash that caused their mother’s death, Channel 4 will air Diana: The Witnesses in the Tunnel as planned on Wednesday night at …

LONDON, June 5: BSkyB’s pay-TV entertainment channel Sky One has secured the exclusive rights to the series Prison Break from rival terrestrial broadcaster Five, for premiere this fall. Sky One beat out Five for the rights to the third season …

NEW YORK, June 5: Spike Lee plans to return to New Orleans to follow up on the stories that were told in his four-hour Peabody Award winning HBO documentary When the Levees Broke: A Requiem in Four Acts, about the …

OTTAWA, June 5: Amberwood Entertainment has been commissioned by YTV in Canada to produce RollBots, a new 3-D animated action-comedy series targeted at kids aged 6-11. The new series will initially be comprised of 26 half hours, and will commence …

MIAMI, June 5: As part of its new strategy to localize the company, Viacom-owned MTV Networks Latin America (MTVNLA) has announced a number of new executive appointments for MTV and VH1 Latin America’s programming and production teams. In line with …

NEW YORK, June 5: United Nations (UN) deputy secretary-general Dr. Asha-Rose Migiro, and Bindi Irwin, daughter of Crocodile Hunter star Steve Irwin, celebrated the launch of the new Discovery Kids Channel series, Bindi: The Jungle Girl at the UN headquarters …

VANCOUVER, June 4: Nerd Corps Entertainment’s first original series, the 3-D animated Storm Hawks, premieres today on Cartoon Network in the U.S. The premiere follows a successful Friday night sneak peek of a one-hour special episode. New episodes of the …

LONDON, June 4: FremantleMedia Enterprises (FME) has announced a series of appointments and promotions within its ancillary rights business across Asia Pacific. Malti Peplow has been appointed to the newly created position of director of sponsorship and interactive in Asia, …

LOS ANGELES/TORONTO, June 4: Blueprint Entertainment has named Jesse Ikeman to the newly created position of VP of business development and co-production. In his new position, based in Toronto, Ikeman will be responsible for the packaging, development and financing of …