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TV News: Network acquires rights to mountaineer docuseries — Travel Channel has acquired docuseries “First Ascent” and will debut it Friday.

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Travel Channel buys ‘First Ascent’

TV News: ABC, CBS and Fox all neck and neck in demos — Entertainment lineups on ABC and CBS battled to a demo draw among the broadcasters on Monday, but Fox figures to challenge or perhaps take the lead when numbers for its World Series finale — in which the San Francisco Giants prevailed — come in later today.

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Tight ratings race on Monday

TV News: Kebbi, Karam to head Middle East shingle — Sony Pictures Television has launched a Middle East production arm, SPT Arabia.

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Sony sets up Arabic TV company

TV News: Foxtel to release pics at same time as homevid release — Paybox Foxtel has struck a deal to shorten the Aussie pay-per-view window so it coincides with the homevid release.

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Oz shortens pay-per-view window

TV News: Odds were against show becoming long-running success — When “Dancing With the Stars” premiered on ABC as a six-week summer replacement series on June 1, 2005, everyone involved — the network, the producers, host Tom Bergeron — thought that, if they were lucky and the ratings were decent, they might give it another go the following summer.

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‘Dancing’ celebrates unlikely milestone

TV News: Casting boosts success no matter the locale — You know something’s a smash when the Guinness Book of World Records gets involved.

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‘Dancing’ format waltzes to riches

TV News: ‘Dancing’ highlights exec’s expanded role — Moving from Dickens to “Dancing With the Stars” might seem like a jarring transition, but BBC Worldwide exec Jane Tranter sees a fair amount of continuity between the scripted and unscripted sides of her broadcasting organization.

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Tranter promotes BBC values on unscripted side

TV News: ‘Rhinestone therapy’ of utmost importance to dancers — Contestants on “Dancing With the Stars” sweat and toil through hours of practice perfecting their routines, but they don’t get near the stage until costume designer Randall Christensen bedazzles them from head to toe.

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Costuming for ‘Dancing’ goes down to the wire

TV News: Other events include Beatles, Rolling Stones and papal tours — “Wheel of Fortune” announcer Charlie O’Donnell died Nov. 1 in Sherman Oaks, Calif

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‘Wheel of Fortune’ announcer O’Donnell dies