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NEW YORK, February 15: Nick at Nite, Nickelodeon’s nighttime programming block, has added feature films to its sitcom-heavy schedule this month with the classic 1980s comedy adventures Crocodile Dundee and Planes, Trains & Automobiles. Crocodile Dundee and Planes, Trains & …

SYDNEY, February 15: Filming began this week in Mount Barker, South Australia, for the new six-part drama series Rain Shadow from Southern Star Entertainment for public broadcaster ABC TV. Rain Shadow is set in the dry land farming community of …

LONDON, February 15: Optimistic Media, the international TV and radio production division of Optimistic Entertainment, has appointed Paul Ging as Participation Radio and Television development producer and Lee Ali as head of technology. Ging, a trained journalist and BBC radio …

NEW YORK, February 15: Christy Spitzer, a former development manager at MTV, has joined Lion Television USA as its director of development. Based in New York and reporting to Tony Tackaberry, the EVP of Lion TV USA, Spitzer will be …

ORLANDO, February 15: The Nielsen Company has found “significant differences” in the way viewers use digital video recorders (DVRs), depending on how soon after the original broadcast they watch the show, and what genre of programming they are viewing. The …

NEW YORK, February 15: Billionaire investor Carl Icahn, who last year went on a mission to break up Time Warner in order to up its share price, sold stock in the media company worth about $880 million in the fourth …

AUSTIN, February 15: A judge has dismissed the lawsuit filed against MySpace by the family of a teenage girl who says she was sexually assaulted by a 19-year-old man she met on the site, according to reports. Last month, four …

PARIS, February 15: MIPDOC has selected eight documentary filmmakers for the second edition of International Trailblazers, an initiative to recognize achievements in the factual genre. The 2007 International Trailblazers' are Marshall Curry from the U.S., Larry Weinstein from Canada, Paolo …

TORONTO, February 15: Bell Canada has launched a new service delivering full-length pay-per-view movies to its subscribers with video-capable phones, including titles from Buena Vista International Television and Sony Pictures Television International. “It’s a Canadian first and we’re happy to …

LONDON, February 15: Virgin Media is undercutting BSkyB with its new sports package, delivering Sky Sports 1, 2, 3 and Xtra, along with 39 other digital channels, including E4, CBeebies and ITV2, for a total monthly subscription of £26 ($51). …