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TORONTO, June 21: Canada’s Cuppa Coffee Studios is working with E! Entertainment Television in the U.S. on a stop-frame animation tentatively titled Starveillance. Created by Eric Fogel, the creator of Celebrity Deathmatch, the show promises a unique look at celebrities. …

NEW YORK, June 21: A PricewaterhouseCoopers report released today predicts that the global media and entertainment industry will rise at a 6.6 percent compound annual growth rate (CAGR) to $1.8 trillion in 2010. PricewaterhouseCoopers' Global Entertainment and Media Outlook: 2006-2010 …

LOS ANGELES, June 21: The gay/lesbian network programming service here! is currently developing a new television movie, In the Name of Love, co-written by Chastity Bono and Garth Belcon. The film tells the tale of an influential Hollywood lesbian who …

LOS ANGELES/MEXICO CITY, June 21: The Televisa-led consortium of investors looking to acquire U.S. Hispanic broadcaster Univision missed THE bid deadline, the New York Times reports, in part because Carlyle Group dropped out at the last minute in a dispute …

AMSTERDAM, June 20: Ahead of the Sunny Side of the Doc documentary market, Off the Fence has confirmed the sale of a number of nature documentaries. France 5 has acquired the rights to Appalachia—The Endless Forest and Death Valley, both …

NEW YORK, June 21: Time Warner is looking into whether company funds were used by its CFO, Wayne Pace, to buy gifts for a woman accused of operating a high-priced prostitution ring. The alleged madam, Andrea Schwartz, told two New …

LONDON/LOS ANGELES, June 21: FremantleMedia North America has upped Julie Uribe to senior VP of development, and has tapped James Sunderland from Granada in the U.K. to serve as executive producer. Uribe, previously development VP, will oversee all unscripted programming …

NORWALK, June 20: Hubbard Broadcasting’s ReelzChannel has acquired all seven seasons of CABLEready’s The Directors in advance of its September 27 U.S. rollout. The series, first launched on Starz Encore, profiles Hollywood’s top filmmakers, among them Steven Spielberg, Martin Scorsese, …

LOS ANGELES, June 20: TV Guide Channel continues its new focus on original content by announcing Trapped in TV Guide, a weekly one-hour hidden-camera series hosted by Growing Pains alum Tracey Gold. Trapped TV Guide puts unsuspecting fans in the …

MALIBU/NEW YORK, June 20: Jakks Pacific has signed a multi-year, multi-product licensing agreement with HIT Entertainment to develop a range of merchandise based on Barney. Categories will include learning toys and plush, with product slated to begin hitting retail stores …