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LOS ANGELES: Showtime has ordered the ten-episode drama The Affair, starring Dominic West, and the ten-episode comedy Happyish, featuring Oscar winner Philip Seymour Hoffman. The Affair is a one-hour drama that explores the emotional and psychological effects of an extramarital affair. The stories will be told separately from the male …

NEW YORK: Zodiak New York has hired Brent Burnette as senior VP of development and promoted Neil Regan to senior VP of development and current. Burnette will be managing Zodiak New York's development slate, generating new character-driven docuseries, creating original formats and adapting Zodiak formats from the company's international catalogue. …

STAMFORD: NBC Olympics is collaborating with Facebook for coverage of the upcoming XXII Olympic Winter Games in Sochi, Russia. The two companies will work to leverage NBC's Olympics content on Facebook to drive conversation about the games on the social networking platform. The NBC Olympics page on Facebook will feature …

NEW YORK: The global sports network ONE World Sports has added industry veteran Randy Brown to its team, naming him executive VP of distribution. He will be based in Los Angeles and New York and will report to company president and CEO Alexander “Sandy” Brown (no relation). The executive, whose …

NEW YORK: NickMom, a prime-time programming block for mothers on Nick Jr., has signed a development agreement for an untitled comedy project with Push it Productions' Wanda Sykes and Page Hurwitz. Additionally, NickMom has given the go-ahead to six episodes of Undercover Cupid, a tentatively titled hidden camera series that is …

LOS ANGELES: At this year's Screen Actors Guild (SAG) Awards, Breaking Bad walked away with the win for outstanding performance by an ensemble in a drama series, while Modern Family won on the comedy side. Breaking Bad's Bryan Cranston also won for outstanding performance by a male actor in a …

UNIVERSAL CITY: The Parks and Recreation star Amy Poehler has inked a three-year producing deal with Universal Television. Poehler has played Leslie Knope, a mid-level bureaucrat, on the NBC sitcom for six seasons. She recently won the Golden Globe for lead actress in a comedy for her role on the …

BURBANK: Announcing the premiere dates for its midseason dramas Black Box and Mind Games, ABC also revealed that it has lined up a new Toy Story holiday special, Toy Story That Time Forgot. The new Disney/Pixar’s Christmas special features the Toy Story characters in a post-Christmas play date during which …

PALISADES PARK: The 56th Annual Grammy Awards, which are set to broadcast live in the U.S. on January 26, have amassed record international sales for Alfred Haber, Inc. (AHI). AHI, which has represented the Grammys for 25 years, signed up broadcasters such as Channel 4 in the U.K., Rogers Media …

NEW YORK:  Comedy Central has upped Susie Kricena to the post of senior VP of program acquisitions. In her new role, Kricena will work under David Bernath, the executive VP of programming and multiplatform strategy at Comedy Central. She will continue to be responsible for supervising all program acquisitions for …