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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 …

SYDNEY, June 5: Following a successful market at MIPTV in April, Beyond Distribution has concluded a raft of new sales throughout Europe and Asia and for its factual entertainment catalogue. Spin Music in the U.K. licensed 12 episodes from 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 …

HILVERSUM, June 4: Endemol Netherlands has revealed that its one-off Dutch reality program the Big Donor Show was a staged stunt that was meant to raise awareness of the crisis surrounding organ donation in the Netherlands. The truth behind the …

NEW YORK, June 4: Hearst-Argyle Television, one of the largest operators of TV and radio stations in the U.S., has entered into a revenue-sharing deal with Google’s YouTube to distribute and monetize some of its television content. A number of …

LOS ANGELES, June 4: Si TV, the media company that caters to 18- to 34-year-old Latinos in the U.S. with English-language entertainment and content, is launching an HD channel, Si TV-HD, next year. Si TV-HD, a 24/7 channel, will offer …