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NEW YORK: FOX has unveiled its lineup for the 2012-13 season, which features a heavy focus on comedy and sees the hit show Glee moving to Thursdays following The X Factor. Monday night on FOX will feature Bones returning at 8 p.m. and the new series The Mob Doctor, about …

TORONTO: For the fourth time out of five cycles of research, ABC tops the "must-keep TV" poll, conducted by Solutions Research Group (SRG). The fifth edition of the independent tracking survey is based on interviews with 1,400 U.S. consumers, who evaluated 73 TV brands. ABC was the number one "must-keep" TV brand, …

LOS ANGELES: CBS has axed the long-running show CSI: Miami as well as the freshman dramas Unforgettable and A Gifted Man. CBS did, however, lock in a deal for a tenth season of Two and a Half Men. CSI: Miami, which stars David Caruso, has aired more than 200 episodes …

Hunted is one of several new shows that Shine International is bringing out to the L.A. Screenings. “This market we will be launching over 450 hours of all-new and returning prime-time programming, produced by an exceptional list of TV’s most successful network producers,” says Matt Vassallo, the company’s VP of …

 This interview originally appeared in the L.A. Screenings 2012 issue of World Screen. Lionsgate Television Group’s production philosophy of less is more has certainly paid off. At its inception, with fewer re­sources available than at the major studios, Lions­gate chose to focus on a lower volume of shows, but ones …

This feature, by Elizabeth Guider, originally appeared in the L.A. Screenings 2012 issue of World Screen. Forget the wow factor. When it comes to Hollywood’s international-television business, it’s the how factor that counts. As in how to maximize revenues from program sales when big-time broadcasters abroad are increasingly making their …

LOS ANGELES: The classic film collection of Paul Naschy, which includes horror titles such as Night of the Werewolf and Vengeance of the Zombies, has been acquired by BoPaul Media Worldwide for distribution globally, excluding Germany. Twelve features starring Naschy have been added to the BoPaul portfolio. These include The …

BURBANK: ABC, which added a slew of comedies to its lineup, has moved Revenge to Sundays, in the slot that used to be occupied by Desperate Housewives. The Monday schedule for fall prime time will feature Dancing with the Stars returning at 8 p.m. and Castle coming in at 10 …

NEW YORK: Todd Sokolove has been appointed VP of marketing for Sonar Entertainment, which recently rebranded from RHI Entertainment. Sokolove was with Hallmark Entertainment in 2000 as senior manager of trade advertising and became marketing director in 2003. Three years later, Hallmark Entertainment was purchased and relaunched as RHI Entertainment. …

NEW YORK: Using social media to track interest in the U.S. networks’ new series, Networked Insights’ lead television analyst, Sean Reckwerdt, offers up his picks for the NBC shows that will prove to be hits, and the ones that will likely fail to resonate with viewers. Networked Insights, a Goldman …