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NEW YORK: Select performances from the Comedy Theatre at the Bonnaroo Music and Arts Festival will be filmed and edited into an original one-hour compilation stand-up special that will air on Comedy Central this summer. The Comedy Theatre at Bonnaroo has been around since 2004. This year’s comic lineup will …

LOS ANGELES: The freshman comedy New Girl has been given a second-season order by FOX, which is also bringing back Raising Hope and Glee. New Girl is currently the number one new series among adults 18 to 34 and the number two new scripted series among adults 18 to 49. …

NEW YORK: More than 167,000 preview clips from the Historic Films archive have been added to the Footage.net library. Footage.net users can screen preview clips from Historic Films’ stock-footage collection, which spans 1895 to 2010. This includes more than 50,000 hours of news, lifestyle, travel, fashion, celebrity, military and cartoon …

SAN FRANCISCO: Virgin America has beefed up the offerings on its Red in-flight entertainment platform, including the addition of the new Virgin Produced Channel. Starting this month, Virgin America flights across North America can access the new channel, created via a unique partnership with Virgin Produced. The channel will offer …

TORONTO: The 2012 Market Tools survey from QuickPlay Media has found increased interest and adoption of mobile TV and multiscreen services, with 57 percent of respondents reporting that they are interested in multiscreen viewing. This figure is up from the 48 percent reported in 2011. Of the respondents, 35 percent …

PORT WASHINGTON: The monthly rates for pay TV have grown an average of 6 percent per year, with The NPD Group predicting monthly bills to reach $200 by 2020. The average pay-TV subscription for basic pay-TV service and premium TV channels in the U.S. reached $86 in the U.S. According to …

NEW YORK: Listen to comic-book legend Stan Lee as he talks to World Screen Newsflash about his new endeavors at POW! Entertainment, where he serves as chairman and chief creative officer; the art of creating memorable, long-lasting superheroes and upcoming cameos in the Spider-Man and Avengers feature films. Spider-Man, Hulk, X-Men, …

DALLAS: More than 25 percent of all video viewing in U.S. broadband households now happens on platforms other than the television, according to new research from Parks Associates. PCs, smartphones and tablets now comprise around one-fourth of all where all videos are viewed in the U.S. "One-third of U.S. broadband …

WASHINGTON, D.C.: A report from the U.S. Commerce Department has found that intellectual-property intensive industries support at least 40 million jobs, contributing more than $5 trillion to the U.S. economy every year. The report calls attention to the importance of IP protection systems. Rebecca Blank, Deputy Commerce Secretary, noted, "The …

NEW YORK: Driving its push into film and television, Condé Nast Entertainment has hired Jeremy Steckler as executive VP of motion pictures and Michael Klein as executive VP of alternative programming. Steckler will acquire and develop film properties for the company. He comes to the role, based in Los Angeles, …