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
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
TV News: Exec may drive strategy toward mainstream — Gaul’s film and TV support body Centre National de la Cinematographie has a new prexy.

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Garandeau to head the CNC
TV News: Al Jazeera, France 24 to bow English-lingo channels — India’s ministry of information and broadcasting has approved the entry of news channels Al Jazeera and France 24 into the country.

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India opens doors to news channels
TV News: Teutonic, Gallic, Dutch webs drive third quarter rally — Pan-European broadcasting giant RTL Group continued its upward trend into the third quarter thanks to strong performances from its TV operations in Germany, France and the Netherlands.

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RTL sees 8.8% revenue boost
TV News: France Televisions, Le Monde worst hit — Gaul is being whammied by a fresh round of strikes and protests over the government’s pension reform plan, which raises the retirement age by two years. The media sector hasn’t been spared either.

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Gallic media suffers as protests bite
TV News: Deauville film fest hosts meeting of television minds — Franchises such as “CSI” and “Criminal Minds” routinely take a third of the primetime audience.

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H’wood showrunners advise on Gallic TV woes
TV News: FT should ‘modernize’ French fiction — A greater emphasis on fiction and a broader news agenda will be among Remy Pflimlin’s priorities once he becomes president of Gallic pubcaster France Televisions.

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Pflimlin focuses on drama, news
Amazing Race host Phil Keoghan is trying again with a non-TAR reality series: He’ll produce and host a series about the 30,000-mile Velux 5 Oceans Race, which is between high-speed yachts crewed by a single person. Its web site describes it as “the ultimat… (source: Realityblurred.com) – Share on Twitter – Share on Facebook – RSS and RSS Feed on Feedzilla.com

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Phil Keoghan will host, produce another race reality competition (source: Realityblurred.com)
TV News: Network picks up ‘Charlot,’ 3D ‘Christmas’ — French pubcaster France Televisions has bought three 3D animated series, “Charlot,” “Peter Pan” and “Loopdidoo’s Zany Christmas,” which will screen in 3D on the pubaster’s web platform.

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France Televisions picks up animated skeins
Bunim-Murray Productions, the company that created The Real World and thus is largely responsible for establishing reality TV’s early aesthetic and structure, was acquired in March by Banijay Entertainment for the mid eight figures, Variety reported. Co-founder Mary-Ellis Bunim died in 2004, after an eight-year battle with breast cancer
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Bunim-Murray’s acquisition "goes a little way to filling that void" left by Mary-Ellis’ death