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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 …

LONDON, September 25: FremantleMedia Licensing Worldwide (FLW) will be taking three TV brands to this year's Brand Licensing show, two of which are being introduced to the market for the first time. New for this year is the game show …

HONG KONG, September 25: Star Chinese Channel in Singapore will launch a local version of Sony Pictures Television International’s (SPTI) unscripted game show format Blackjack Bowling. This local version is called Lucky Star and will be hosted by well-known TV …

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 …