TV News: U.K.’s Competition Commission likely to investigate deal — News Corp.’s planned £8 billion ($12.4 billion) takeover of U.K. paybox BSkyB is likely to be subjected to a six-month long inquiry by Blighty’s Competition Commission.

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BSkyB takeover faces probe
TV News: Measure restricts growth of Berlusconi empire — The Italian government, under pressure from the communications watchdog Agcom, has renewed rules limiting ownership of media outlets that were due to expire on Jan.

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Italy extends media ownership law
TV News: Highest-rating series in France — He might not have caught Red John, but Patrick Jane’s certainly hypnotized France.

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‘Mentalist’ hypnotizes Gaul
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American Idol will replace the on-stage band with audience members (Realityblurred.com)
American Idol has hired Ray Chew as its new band director, but is planning to hide him and the musicians, replacing them on the stage with audience members, because as we all know, American Idol’s biggest problem was that it had too few coached audience members getting screen time. The Hollywood Reporter first reported that Ray Chew would join the show; he’s previously produced and conducted live music for live TV shows such as the… keep reading » » read the full story and comment , or find the latest news about American Idol 10 » follow reality blurred on Twitter and on Facebook .
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American Idol will replace the on-stage band with audience members
Some good news to start 2011: Discovery’s Man vs. Wild and Survivorman were credited with saving a 14-year-old’s life
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TV News: Dish, Comcast grapple over net, Style; Sinclair, Time Warner Cable scuffle — There was smoke but no New Year’s Day fire from two TV carriage fights that went down to the wire this weekend.

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Extensions for E!, Sinclair fights
TV News: Cymphonique to star in sitcom — Nickelodeon has picked up a sitcom pilot starring young recording artist Cymphonique.

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Nickelodeon dons ‘Braces and Glasses’
TV News: Station loses prominent VHF channel position after dropping PBS affiliation — As KCET dumped PBS and officially went indie Sunday, the station was downgraded by two Southern California cable operators.

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Cablers downgrade indie KCET