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LONDON, October 19: LIVINGtv has commissioned TwoFour Broadcast to produce an 8×1-hour factual entertainment series that goes behind the scenes at the British extras agency Envenio. The Real Extras will offer an in-depth look at Envenio, which represents about 10,000 …

BURBANK, October 19: On November 3, Toon Disney will present the world television premiere of Bambi II, the recent sequel to Disney’s animated classic. The film will air at 5 p.m. on November 3 in the Big Movie Show block. …

LONDON, October 19: Southern Star International’s successful Australian drama series Love My Way launched in the U.K. over the weekend on the new channel Five Life. Soon to be in production on season three in Australia, the show focuses on …

MUNICH, October 19: Bavaria Media Television secured a range of deals at MIPCOM last week, and signed on five co-production partners in Eastern Europe for the new avalanche disaster TV movie Val Montana. Partners on board include Nova TV from …

MAINZ, October 19: ZDF Enterprises’ brisk business at MIPCOM last week surpassed the expectations of the company’s president and CEO, Alexander Coridass, the German distribution entity announced today. "We had set ourselves very high goals, not least because of the …

SANTA MONICA, October 19: Genius Products has entered into a deal to be the exclusive home entertainment distributor for ImaginAsian Entertainment’s portfolio of Asian and Asian-American motion pictures and television programs in the U.S. Under the five-year agreement, Genius has …

NEW YORK, October 19: About 5 percent of NBC Universal’s workforce—some 700 people—will be let go by the end of 2008 as part of a company-wide restructure announced today called NBCU 2.0. NBC Universal said today that the move is …

NEW YORK, October 18: Time Warner Cable is planning an initial public offering, wire reports indicate, applying to list its shares on the New York Stock Exchange under the ticker TWC. According to the AP, the platform, the second-largest cable …

SEATTLE, October 18: A number of titles from Showtime, including the critically acclaimed drama The L Word and the pilot for the new show Dexter, have joined the lineup on the digital content download service Amazon Unbox, which launched in …

LOS ANGELES, October 18: Image Entertainment has won its proxy battle with Lionsgate, with all seven of the home entertainment outfit’s board members reelected, defeating the independent studio’s nominees. Lionsgate holds a 19-percent stake in Image and has been trying …