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NEW YORK, September 26: Sky News’s coverage of last year’s London bombings and a special from the Netherlands on a platoon of U.S. soldiers in Afghanistan have picked up International Emmys in the news category. London Bombings July 7th, 2005, …

MILAN, September 26: A slate of feature films from Sony Pictures Television International (SPTI) will be made available on the IPTV service Alice Home TV and the ADSL portal Rosso Alice, via a deal with Telecom Italia. As of this …

MARINA DEL REY, September 26: Universal Pictures’ The Fast and the Furious: Tokyo Drift will be available for consumers to download and burn to DVD from CinemaNow beginning today, the same day as the title’s retail DVD release. The entire …

LONDON, September 26: Entertainment Rights has posted a half-year after-tax loss of £2.2 million, versus its £500,000 profit at the same time last year, on revenues of £5.9 million, less than half of the £12.4 million recorded last year. Announcing …

SINGAPORE, September 26: Six weeks since launching in Hong Kong, National Geographic Channels International’s new wildlife channel has secured carriage in Singapore, on StarHub’s digital cable platform. National Geographic Wild is a new 24-hour English-language channel focusing on wildlife and …

SILVER SPRING, September 26: Discovery Communications has lined up a range of multi-platform extensions for its highly anticipated new series Discovery Atlas, including high-definition DVDs and online components. Discovery Atlas: China Revealed, the first installment of this multi-year global media …

SINGAPORE, September 26: The Media Development Authority of Singapore (MDA) will have its strongest presence to date at this year’s MIPCOM, with 15 outfits taking part under the Singaporean pavilion, as well as a new branding campaign entitled Singapore Media …

LONDON, September 25: Target Entertainment has boosted its distribution catalogue by signing an output deal with the British independent production company Scarlet Television. Scarlet was established in November 2004 and is the Manchester-based, factual-entertainment production division of Medal Entertainment. The …

LOS ANGELES, September 25: Program Partners has acquired the U.S. broadcast syndication rights to Degrassi: The Next Generation to run as a strip beginning in the fall of 2007. Degrassi: The Next Generation is a runaway hit on The N, …

HONG KONG, September 25: The STAR subsidiary Fortune Star Entertainment has begun production on a new high-definition feature film Dead Air, from acclaimed Hong Kong filmmaker Teddy Chen, for broadcast across Asia on the Star Chinese Movies channel. “We’re excited …