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UNIVERSAL CITY: Universal Cable Productions (UCP) and Blumhouse Productions have entered into a multiyear production agreement that will implement a "micro-budget" financial and creative structure for TV series. The deal is the first to materialize from the first-look production agreement Blumhouse signed earlier this year with NBCUniversal and will focus …

LOS ANGELES: On-location filming in Los Angeles has increased 9.6 percent in 2014, with TV production rising 12.2 percent. According to FilmL.A., on-location feature film production was down 3.2 percent for the year, with a 28-percent drop in Q4 alone. TV production, however, is a bright spot. On-location production of …

LOS ANGELES: NATPE is hosting a dedicated Masters of Marketing track on January 21, featuring execs from Chipotle, L'Oreal Paris, MasterCard, PepsiCo, Unilever and others, alongside leading branded entertainment media companies. The series, sponsored by BMO Capital Markets, kicks things off at the top of the day with The Content …

SANTA MONICA: Ovation TV has appointed seasoned cable exec Mike Pons as its new senior VP of content distribution, while Scott Woodward moves up to executive VP of programming and production. Pons is charged with overseeing the network's key relationships with national accounts, including DIRECTV, Dish, AT&T U-verse and Charter. …

BURBANK: A third season of the hit original drama The Fosters is headed to ABC Family, which has also lined up Job or No Job, a new reality series from the producers of Undercover Boss. New episodes from the second season of The Fosters will kick off on January 19 …

MONTEREY: Broadcast station M&A volume in the U.S. reached $8.77 billion in 2014, including $1.3 billion worth of station swaps, according to SNL Kagan. This marked the second-highest annual figure since 2007, falling short of 2013's record-breaking $12.4 billion. The decline compared to the previous year is mainly due to …

LOS ANGELES: Mike Myers has entered into an overall deal with HBO, including TV exclusivity and runs for two years. Myers, a Saturday Night Live alum, recently made his directorial debut with the doc Supermensch: The Legend of Shep Gordon. He also wrote and starred in Wayne's World and Wayne's …

LOS ANGELES: The video humor site Break has expanded its content offering to include a free movie streaming service, Movies on Break, which launches with a slate of 200 Lionsgate films. The DEFY Media-owned Break moves into streaming full-length, premium ad-supported content with this launch. Movies on Break is divided …

NEW YORK: A ten-episode third season of Broad City is headed to Comedy Central, which has also launched an app based on the hit scripted series created by and starring Abbi Jacobson and Ilana Glazer. Broad City centers on two young women living in New York. The program is exec …

MONTREAL: Cirque du Soleil Média has entered into a first-look deal with 20th Century Fox Television, aiming to develop live-action prime-time scripted TV projects. Cirque du Soleil Média, which is a joint venture between Cirque du Soleil and Bell Media, and 20th Century Fox Television will work together to develop …