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HONG KONG, September 21: MGM Channel Germany has renewed its agreement with Celestial Pictures for the pay-TV rights to 15 titles from Celestial’s Shaw Brothers library. The titles are for MGM Channel Germany’s Kung Fu Classics nights, which air in …

LOS ANGELES, September 21: MGM, the cable network G4, Brooksfilms Limited and Berliner Film Companie are teaming up to produce a TV series based on Mel Brooks’ comedy Spaceballs. G4, which targets a male audience and is available in 59 …

LOS ANGELES, September 21: Galan Entertainment and HBO will be working together to create a series of 90- to 120-second segments of mobile content geared to the Hispanic community. The series of mini telenovelas, entitled La Traductora (The Translator), is …

SAN FRANCISCO, September 21: Yahoo! and Current TV, the media company founded by former Vice President Al Gore, are creating an online video programming venture. The new service, called Yahoo Current Network (video.yahoo.com/currenttv), will combine professional and user-generated video clips …

TORONTO, September 21: As part of its continued roll out of broadband video, Global Television will be offering American prime-time programming as well as completed episodes from the network's Canadian news, drama, comedy and documentary programming, on its website. This …

NEW YORK, September 21: Despite increasing competition from new media platforms and devices, such as iPods and streaming video, television viewing is on the rise in the U.S., according to Nielsen Media Research. During the 2005-2006 television year, which ended …

HONG KONG, September 20: Indonesian broadcaster Indosiar (PT Indosiar Visual Mandiri) will premiere a locally produced version of Sony Pictures Television International’s (SPTI) U.S. sitcom The Nanny on September 25, 2006. The Indonesian show, called Si Neny, is SPTI’s first …

BEVERLY HILLS, September 20: Liberty Media Corporation has completed the first stage of its acquisition of IDT's entertainment division, including a stake in Stan Lee's POW! Entertainment Inc. Now IDT and Liberty will work together in the distribution and development …

CENTURY CITY, September 20: Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment (TCFHE) is launching FOXFAITH, a new branded distribution label to house its growing portfolio of faith-based programming. This new brand is targeted at Christian retailers as well as churches and ministry …

BURBANK, September 20: The Walt Disney Company predicts it will sell some $50 million worth of movies in the first year of its partnership with Apple Computer’s iTunes Music Store. In less than a week since Disney made available movies …