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LONDON, June 8: Following a better-than-expected TV subscriber performance during April and May, Virgin expects the loss of TV subscribers to stabilize for the second quarter. This announcement revises a previous statement made on May 9, when Virgin Media forecast …

NEW YORK, June 8: After 86 episodes over the course of eight-and-a-half years, The Sopranos, one of the most groundbreaking dramas in the history of television, will air for the last time on June 10. Fans of the HBO drama …

LONDON, June 8: Ocean, a new eight-part documentary series commissioned by BBC Two, will reveal the hidden stories of our planet’s oceans. The proposed team of adventurers—explorer Paul Rose, maritime archaeologist Dr. Lucy Blue and marine biologist Tooni Mahto—will journey …

BUENOS AIRES, June 7: Telefe International has sold the mini-series Detectives, Brothers & Co to the Brazilian broadcaster Bandeirantes, marking the first time that an Argentine series will be aired on television in Brazil. The deal is also significant because …

LOS ANGELES, June 7: Bob Barker, 83, taped his last round of The Price is Right Wednesday morning, ending his 35-year run as host of the longest-running game show in the U.S. and his five decades on network television. The …

NEW YORK, June 7: The National Hockey League (NHL) has reached an agreement to use Sling Media’s upcoming Clip+Sling technology to allow all current and future Slingbox customers to clip and share live or recorded segments of NHL programming online …

LONDON, June 7: The entertainment-rights company Entara has secured the U.K. licensing rights to the classic French children’s series The Magic Roundabout, and will be developing a comprehensive U.K. licensing program from the series. Created by Serge Danot in 1965, …

LONDON, June 7: Disney Channel has inked a deal to supply its three branded channels—Disney Channel, Playhouse Disney and Disney Cinemagic—to the IPTV platform Tiscali TV in the U.K. Starting this month, Disney Channel and the preschool channel Playhouse Disney …

LOS ANGELES, June 7: Lifetime Television has begun production on the Lifetime Original Movie The Murder of Princess Diana, which will premiere this August to coincide with the 10th anniversary of Princess Diana’s death in a fatal car crash. Produced …

OTTAWA, June 7: Amberwood Productions’ live-action animated special The Snow Queen, which was produced for the BBC in the U.K. and CBC in Canada, has received an award from The Alliance for Children and Television in the All Genres category …