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LONDON, October 2: British independent Feelgood Fiction has notched up new deals in the U.S., including a pickup by HBO of the format rights to the Five and Paramount Comedy series Suburban Shootout. In addition, CBS has commissioned a pilot …

A Time of Reckoning Address by Bob Wright, Vice Chairman, GE, and Chairman and CEO, NBC Universal at a summit entitled Threatening Health, Safety, and Jobs: The True Cost of Counterfeiting and Piracy, at the U.S. Chamber of Commerce in …

LONDON, October 2: National Geographic Television International has signed on the BBC and NHK as co-production partners on its new blue-chip wildlife special Gabon: Eden On The Edge. Currently being made by the natural history unit at National Geographic Television, …

PARIS/CANNES, October 2: Anne Sweeney, the co-chair of Disney Media Networks and president of the Disney-ABC Television Group, will deliver a keynote entitled “The Today and Tomorrow of TV and The New Entertainment Consumer” on the first day of MIPCOM …

MUNICH, October 2: Mediaset has picked up a further 100 episodes of Bavaria Media Television’s hit telenovela Storm Of Love for broadcast on Canale 5. Broadcast as Tempesta d’Amore, the show is currently one of the most popular afternoon programs …

PARIS, September 29: A variety of Twentieth Century Fox’s current and library films will be offered on-demand to subscribers of CANALPLAY, Groupe CANAL+’s VOD platform. “We continue to pursue distribution opportunities which make it more convenient for consumers to access …

STOCKHOLM, September 29: Modern Times Group’s Viasat Broadcasting is working with Danish broadband network operator Dansk Bredband to distribute its channels over IPTV. The move follows the successful launch of similar IPTV offerings in Sweden and Norway in 2004 and …

AMSTERDAM, September 29: Van den Ende & Deitmers Crossmedia Fund, the venture capital fund set up by Joop van den Ende and Hubert Deitmers, has acquired a 30-percent interest in Fruitlounge Media, a developer of interactive television formats. Fruitlounge Media …

NEW YORK, September 29: For the first time ever, MTV will air the season finale of one of its series—Two-A-Days—exclusively on MTV.com. The show, from MTV’s News & Docs division, focuses on a high school football team. It has already …

TORONTO, September 29: Jane Root, the executive VP and general manager of Discovery Channel in the U.S., will be one of the keynote speakers at the World Congress of Science and Factual Producers (WCSFP), set for November 11 to 14 …