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BURBANK: Bellum Entertainment has taken on distribution for the ITV Studios America and Raycom Media daily newsmagazine show America Now. Bellem Entertainment, led by Mary Carole McDonnell, has hired Boots Walker as the VP of sales. She and Boyd McDonnell, the VP of programming, will lead the team of five …

LOS ANGELES: Rive Gauche Television has promoted Tomas Silva to VP of international sales. Silva joined Rive Gauche in 2008 as international sales executive, heading the company’s distribution entry into Latin America. He has worked for the Buenos Aires-based Dinter Television, where he represented TV Globo for Argentina, Uruguay and …

CULVER CITY: Sony Pictures Entertainment’s multiplatform online entertainment network Crackle is to add the anime channel Animax to its lineup for U.S. and Canadian viewers. The Animax channel will be available via the Crackle site as well as on tablets, mobile and OTT devices. New episodes and/or series will launch …

LOS ANGELES: AEG, Ryan Seacrest Media and Creative Artists Agency (CAA) have established a joint venture to rebrand Mark Cuban’s HDNet as AXS TV. The channel, slated for this summer, will feature live entertainment and lifestyle programming. AEG’s presence in live events and affiliation with venues worldwide will bring viewers …

LOS ANGELES: News Corp.’s Jonathan Miller and Ross Levinsohn of Yahoo! will kick off the opening morning keynote event at NATPE, which has also added sessions with Lionsgate’s Jon Feltheimer and Televisa’s Emilio Azcarraga. Miller is the chief digital officer at News Corp. and is the chairman and CEO of the …

NEW YORK: Syfy has greenlit a two-hour pilot for the action thriller Rewind from BermanBraun and Universal Cable Productions. Rewind features a team of military field operatives and civilian scientists who must use untested technology to travel back in time to alter past events in order to change the future …

NEW YORK: U.S. TV ad spending is expected to remain largely unaffected by the growth of online this year, according to new estimates from eMarketer, which predicts total media ad spending to increase 6.7 percent in 2012 to $169.5 billion.  U.S. online ad spending is forecast to grow 23.3 percent …

LOS ANGELES: The hit anthology series Femme Fatales is set to return to Cinemax for a second season in 2012 with 13 all-new episodes, which Entertainment One (eOne) will be offering to international territories at NATPE. eOne handles distribution outside the U.S. for the series, which features modern noir and …

January 20: Former CBS exec Dan Harrison has been named the executive VP of scheduling at FOX. Harrison previously served as the senior VP of strategic development at CBS Corporation, and was responsible for identifying and implementing organic growth opportunities. Prior to that, he was the senior VP of the …

NEW YORK: Syfy has promoted Chris Regina, who is based in the New York office, to senior VP of programming. Regina’s responsibilities will include the oversight of acquisitions of studio-distributed theatrical films and series. He will also continue to manage Syfy’s scheduling and administration department, while continuing to work on …