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LOS ANGELES: Scott Garner, Tina Perry and Debi Pomerantz, senior executives at OWN: Oprah Winfrey Network, have been promoted. Garner has been upped from senior VP to executive VP of scheduling and acquisitions. He will continue to manage strategic planning and scheduling of the channel and VOD platform, as well …

ARLINGTON: PBS has revealed its prime-time lineup for the fall that launches with the premiere of Ken Burns' seven-part series The Roosevelts: An Intimate History. The Roosevelts launches on September 14 with a seven-night premiere. The 14-hour documentary will air nightly at 8 p.m. through September 20. The series weaves …

LOS ANGELES: World Media Pictures is representing the new series Gilgamesh: The Immortal, based on a successful comic book published in the 1970s and ’80s in Latin America and Europe. The comic featured the story of the legendary Sumerian prince turned king, who is said to have ruled circa 2500 …

NEW YORK: Five new dramas, two event series, four comedies and one unscripted show join FOX's 2014-15 schedule, which sees Gotham airing on Mondays and Brooklyn Nine-Nine moving to Sundays. The Batman prequel Gotham is paired on Monday nights with the returning Sleepy Hollow. Tuesdays kick off with the new …

NEW YORK: NBC has revealed its revamped prime-time schedule, which sees the regular Thursday night comedy block being broken up midseason to make way for The Blacklist. Mondays see the return of The Voice at 8 p.m., this time with new coaches Pharrell Williams and Gwen Stefani, followed by The …

ATLANTA/PHILADELPHIA: Turner Broadcasting System and Comcast Corporation have signed a deal that provides Xfinity TV customers with on-demand access to current and previous seasons of programming from networks such as TBS, TNT, Cartoon Network and truTV. Starting this summer, Turner is providing full seasons of popular shows to Xfinity TV …

BOSTON: Ultra HD (UHD) TV ownership is expected to grow from less than 10 percent of homes in the U.S. for the next four years to 33 percent by 2020, according to Strategy Analytics Connected Home Devices service report. UHD TV shipments are forecast to account for 41 percent of …

NEW YORK: FOX Sports will be beefing up its prime-time soccer coverage after signing an eight-year, multiplatform deal with Major League Soccer (MLS). The agreement kicks off next year and is due to extend to 2022. Through the deal, FOX Sports is slated to launch an exclusive Soccer Night in …

NEW YORK: ABC has presented its 2014-15 prime-time schedule, which features three new series on Tuesday nights, Selfie, Manhattan Love Story and Forever, paired with Marvel's Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. Dancing with the Stars returns to lead off the Monday lineup, followed by Castle at 10 p.m. Tuesdays feature the new …

NEW YORK: CBS is leading off its 2014-15 prime-time schedule, which features eight new series, on Monday nights with The Big Bang Theory, followed later in the evening by the freshman drama Scorpion. The Big Bang Theory, which is currently the number one scripted series, moves to 8 p.m. to …