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TORONTO/LOS ANGELES: Entertainment One (eOne) is working with Avi Lerner’s Nu Image to develop and produce a TV series based on the iconic action film Rambo. The pair have signed an exclusive option agreement to collectively develop the series and shop it to broadcasters in the U.S. and internationally. Negotiations …

ATLANTA: TBS has ordered third seasons of the original sitcoms Sullivan & Son and Men at Work, as well as a second season of the game show Deal with It. The Steve Byrne-led Sullivan & Son is produced for TBS by Wild West Picture Show Productions in association with Warner Horizon Television. The …

NEW YORK: CBS Corporation and Verizon Communications have agreed to a new three-year deal that includes retransmission consent for CBS-owned stations on Verizon FiOS TV. CBS-owned stations in various Verizon markets, including New York, Los Angeles and Dallas—where the group is currently in a blackout with Time Warner Cable—will continue …

NEW YORK: Time Warner Cable is giving away a limited number of TV antennas to customers in markets affected by its blackout of CBS stations. The cable provider is giving away basic indoor antennas at its retail locations in New York, Los Angeles, Dallas and parts of Wisconsin. Alternately, it is …

BURBANK: ABC Family is producing three new comedy pilots, including one starring Tori Spelling. Spelling stars in Mystery Girls, about a former starlet who gets into the business of solving crimes with her former mystery TV show co-star. Work Mom is a half-hour workplace comedy following Heather, who gets promoted at …

LOS ANGELES: E! has tapped Noah Pollack, most recently the VP of reality programming at Lifetime, as its new senior VP of programming and developing. At Lifetime, Pollack had been overseeing the development and production of such series and pilots as Pretty Wicked Moms, The Week the Women Went and The Houstons: …

NEW YORK: Time Warner Cable’s TWC TV application is now available on the Xbox 360 console, delivering subscribers who are Xbox Live Gold members the ability to watch up to 300 live TV channels. The TWC TV app for Xbox Live allows customers to share and see what friends are watching and …

LOS ANGELES: Hulu has ordered the ten-episode comedy Deadbeat, co-produced by Lionsgate and Brad Pitt’s Plan B Entertainment. The supernatural comedy is from creators Cody Heller and Brett Konner, who previously worked on the FX show Wilfred. It focuses on a male medium who helps New York’s ghosts to settle …

SAN FRANCISCO: Twitter has acquired Trendrr, a company that tracks and analyzes real-time conversations about TV shows on Twitter and other social media outlets. Mark Ghuneim, the founder of Trendrr, announced the purchase on his blog. "Over the last five years we have led the way in working with real-time data …

LOS ANGELES: Daniel March, formerly the president of Echo Bridge Entertainment International, has launched a new production and distribution company, Dynamic Television. The company will make its debut at MIPCOM with around 200 hours of original content. Its launch slate includes 160 hours of Conan O’Brien’s TBS late night series …