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CHEVY CHASE: Next month Travel Channel is scheduled to begin airing its third annual Weekends to Die For, a Halloween-themed programming event. The lineup will include new seasons of Making Monsters and The Dead Files. It will feature such one-hour specials as Ghost Adventures: Up Close & Personal, Halloween Night …

DURHAM: The 13 largest multi-channel video producers in the U.S., representing about 94 percent of the market, lost around 345,000 net additional video subscribers in the second quarter of 2013, according to new findings from Leichtman Research Group. The top pay-TV providers account for 94.6 million subscribers; the top 9 cable …

BEVERLY HILLS: A new multi-year licensing pact sees Netflix become the exclusive U.S. subscription TV service for first-run films from The Weinstein Company starting in 2016. The deal kicks off with its 2016 theatrically released feature films. New titles from TWC and Dimension Films will be made available for Netflix members …

NEW YORK: Leslie Farrell and Jeff Oliver have been appointed as the new VPs of current production for Bravo Media. Both Farrell and Oliver will work out of New York under Shari Levine, the senior VP of current production and original programming for Bravo Media. Farrell will serve as executive producer …

NEW YORK: HISTORY has greenlit the new four-hour scripted mini-series Houdini, in which Academy Award-winner Adrien Brody will take on the title role as the ace magician. Brody (The Pianist) is joined by Kristen Connolly (House of Cards, The Cabin in the Woods), who plays his wife Bess. The mini-series …

NEW YORK: NBC News Digital Group has established an original video unit, with an in-house production team dedicated to creating video for social media, mobile and the web. The unit will create video for brands such as NBC News Digital and TODAY Digital. Bill Smee will be leading the team as executive …

KNOXVILLE: Bob Baskerville, who currently serves as the COO of Scripps Networks Interactive’s international business, has been appointed as the company’s chief information officer. Baskerville succeeds Ron Johnson, the current chief information officer who is intending to retire at the end of the year. Baskerville will report to Mark Hale, …

NEW YORK: EPIX has promoted Amit Ziv to VP of business operations, development and strategy from senior director of business operations and strategy. In his new role Ziv will be expected to handle strategic business planning. He will collaborate with EPIX executive leadership in managing content distribution agreements, developing and …

NEW YORK: Al Jazeera America, which made its debut yesterday, has filed a lawsuit against AT&T’s U-verse after the provider dropped the channel. The decision by AT&T’s U-verse pay-TV service came from a contract dispute over terms to carry the new network. Al Jazeera has responded by suing for breach of …

UNIVERSAL CITY: NBC has ordered a ten-episode second season of Hollywood Game Night, a game show hosted by Jane Lynch that airs on Thursday nights. Hollywood Game Night looks on as contestants play games with such celebrities as Kristin Bell, Rose Byrne, Nick Cannon, Kristin Chenoweth, Minnie Driver, Patricia Heaton, Lisa …