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LONDON, February 9: Confidential with Neil Sean, a new series featuring the British gossip columnist for Sky News and publications such as Metro and New, will launch on The Biography Channel in the U.K. on February 17. The 13×30 minute …

LONDON, February 9: Factual distributor TVF International has licensed more than 20 hours of programming into Spain via Televisió de Catalunya and Sogecable’s travel channel Viajar. The deals include the sale to Televisió de Catalunya of the 4×56-minute acclaimed environmental …

TORONTO, February 9: Solutions 2 GO Inc, a Canadian-based provider of electronic entertainment products, has reached a deal with 20th Century Fox Licensing and Merchandising to develop a line of video game accessories in North America based on FOX’s hit …

NEW YORK, February 9: News Corporation’s chairman and CEO, Rupert Murdoch, told attendees at McGraw-Hill’s Media Summit in New York yesterday that while he finds YouTube “hypnotic,” he questioned the user-generated content site’s ability to deliver significant ad revenues. According …

ATLANTA, February 9: Jim Samples, the executive VP and general manager of Cartoon Network, resigned today over the cable network’s marketing ploy that caused a bomb scare in Boston last week. Cartoon Network has not yet formally announced Samples’ exit, …

BURBANK, February 9: Stephen Slesinger Inc.’s (SSI) long-running battle against The Walt Disney Company over Winnie the Pooh rights is back in the news with the company petitioning the U.S. Patent Office to cancel several of Disney’s trademark registrations from …

NEW YORK, February 9: According to The Nielsen Company, the average commercial aired during the Super Bowl on CBS last Sunday received a 32.1 rating with a viewership of 92.8 million. The average viewer rating for the Super Bowl program …

BURBANK, February 9: Touchstone Television, Disney-ABC Television Group’s in-house production company, is being renamed as ABC Television Studio, as part of a company-wide initiative to focus on the core Disney, ABC and ESPN brands. The newly named ABC Television Studio …

SYDNEY, February 9: Network Ten is sublicensing up to 25 segments per year from 60 Minutes in the U.S. to fellow Australian broadcaster Nine Network, which is home to the local version of the investigative magazine series. TEN has the …

UNTERFOEHRING, February 9: EM.Entertainment has taken a 22.5-percent stake in Kabillion, the multiplatform kids’ destination launched by Taffy Entertainment in conjunction with REMIX Entertainment Ventures last month. Kabillion is targeted to kids aged 5 to 12. It is available on …