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ATLANTA: The comedy Cougar Town is moving from ABC to TBS for its fourth season, with the cable network also giving the greenlight to a pair of series from Warner Horizon Television. Cougar Town, which stars Courtney Cox, is headed to cable after three seasons on network TV. TBS also …

ATLANTA: TBS has signed an exclusive agreement with DumbDumb, the advertising and digital production outfit launched by Jason Bateman and Will Arnett, in partnership with Ben Silverman’s Electus that will see the creation of branded digital comedy shorts. DumbDumb will produce up to six short-form comedy videos for TBS.com. Each …

LOS ANGELES: Marc Cherry, the creator and executive producer of Desperate Housewives, is to serve as the keynote speaker at this year’s PitchCon, which NATPE is presenting June 7 and 8 at the Hollywood Roosevelt Hotel. Cherry will participate in a one-on-one conversation on June 7. He will be discussing …

ATLANTA: Bounce TV is adding a second original series to its schedule, with the comedy Uptown Comic to launch on June 18 following the premiere of the recently announced sitcom Family Time. The new half-hour series will feature stage and skit performances by up-and-comic comics. The show is currently in production, …

HOLLYWOOD: Guillermo Del Toro and Mark Gustafson are co-directing the 3D stop-motion feature Guillermo Del Toro’s Pinocchio, a production from The Jim Henson Company. Based on Carlo Collodi’s classic story and illustrated by Gris Grimly, the new Pinocchio will be co-directed by Gustafson, who was the animation director on The …

LOS ANGELES: Thomas Valentino, a former sales support coordinator for Reed Exhibitions, has been hired as international sales coordinator for BoPaul Media Worldwide. Valentino will be administering contracts and assisting the company’s sales staff located in Los Angeles, New York and Paris with client relations in all territories. Previously, Valentino …

LOS ANGELES: Go On, The New Normal, Guys with Kids and 1600 Penn are among the comedies lined up for NBC, which has slated The Voice to return this fall in its third season. The Voice returns Mondays at 8 p.m., with an additional weekly hour on Tuesdays at 8 …

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 …