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NEW YORK, July 13: Visitors to the TVLand.com website will soon be able to access several classic TV shows, including Star Trek, as well as interstitial series, celebrity interviews and other content via a new broadband video player. "TVLand.com has …

LONDON, July 13: Former members of successful boy bands will be brought together in a new series from MTV Networks International that will be made available to all MTV channels globally and will air in a terrestrial slot in the …

TORONTO, July 13: Lightworks Program Distribution has appointed Peace Arch Television as its exclusive television distributor in the Canadian market. Among the titles included in the new partnership are CS Lewis: Beyond Narnia; the stop motion animation Davey & Goliath …

MIAMI, July 13: Todobebe, the producers of the Spanish-language Todobebe TV show about pregnancy and parenting that airs on Telemundo in the U.S., are working with branded entertainment and product placement specialists Branded Pictures and AIM Productions to develop an …

LONDON, July 13: Channel 4 has commissioned Lion Television produce a one-hour documentary about the strange occurrences following the discovery of the mummified remains of a prehistoric man known only as Oetzi in Italy in 1991. The Curse of the …

NEW YORK, July 13: 4Kids Entertainment has promoted Daniel Barnathan to president of its 4Kids Ad Sales subsidiary. Previously executive VP of sales, marketing and promotions, Barnathan will now oversee the unit of 4Kids that sells advertising on the Saturday …

HILVERSUM, July 13: Endemol International is looking to boost its finished programs distribution business in Latin America with the appointment of Ariel Tobi as sales manager for the region. In the newly created post, Tobi, based in Argentina, will responsible …

SYDNEY, July 13: The Australian government today announced a slate of reforms for the media industry, including the relaxation of cross-media and foreign-ownership rules, the lifting of programming restrictions on ABC and SBS’s digital channels, and granting commercial free-to-air broadcasters …

HOLLYWOOD, July 13: According to wire reports, The Walt Disney Company is planning a significant work force reduction and is set to slash its annual feature film output from 18 to 8. Further, according to Daily Variety, the bulk of …

SUN VALLEY, July 13: At Allen & Company’s Sun Valley media conference this week, senior Televisa executives reportedly met with representatives from the consortium that is in the process of buying Univision about the possibility of retaining its stake in …