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NEW YORK, November 20: The International Academy of Television Arts & Sciences has given producer-director Steven Spielberg its Founders Award for his "long and distinguished career in television,” and named Ronald S. Lauder, former U.S. ambassador to Austria, recipient of …

LONDON, November 20: Ofcom has announced a total ban in Britain on junk food advertising around all children's programming, on all children's channels and any program in any daypart that has a "particular appeal" to under 16-year-olds, according to Media …

LONDON, November 20: Fireworks has acquired the international rights to a new 22 x 1-hour drama series called Blood Ties. Blood Ties, produced by Toronto’s Kaleidoscope Entertainment and Vancouver’s Insight Film Studios in association with CHUM Television, is scheduled to …

LONDON, November 20: FremantleMedia Enterprises’s slate of programming at the Asia Television Forum (ATF) will focus on entertainment and reality shows. A music television event spearheads FremantleMedia Enterprises’s slate: the series Live From Abbey Road. The Killers, Diana Ross, Pink …

LOS ANGELES, November 20: E! Entertainment Television has greenlit a third season of The Girls Next Door, the reality series that revolves around the lives of Hugh Hefner's three girlfriends at the Playboy Mansion. The 10 half-hour episodes of the …

NEW YORK, November 20: Cartoon Network has signed veteran animation executive and creator Sam Register to a first-look deal to develop programming. The deal was announced by Jim Samples, executive VP and general manager for Cartoon Network, and encompasses both …

LONDON, November 20: Buena Vista International Television (BVITV), the international TV distribution division of The Walt Disney Company, has promoted two members of its London-based Europe, Middle East and Africa sales team. Catherine Powell has been upped to VP of …

PARIS, November 20: Cookie Jar Entertainment has appointed Wiebke Hoefer as director of European sales. In her new position Hoefer will oversee European television and home video sales on behalf of Cookie Jar Entertainment and will report to Jean-Michel Ciszewski, …

LOS ANGELES, November 17: Granada America has formed a joint venture with Play On TV, a company specializing in viewer-participation television, to expand its interactive television initiatives in the U.S. market. Through its parent ITV, Granada is already a major …

LOS ANGELES, November 17:The FOX Broadcasting Co. has ordered more episodes of two freshman shows: the hostage drama Standoff and the Brad Garrett comedy ‘Til Death. Fox ordered six more episodes of Standoff, about hostage negotiators, played by Ron Livingston …