TV News: Producer offset stimulates local projects — The value of feature and TV productions in Australia rose 2% to $A731 million ($740 million) in the past 12 months, according to a Screen Australia report.
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Australian production sees slight rise
TV News: Exec named senior VP of programming, multiplatform strategy — Comedy Central has promoted Val Boreland to senior VP of programming, promotion and multiplatform strategy.
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Comedy Central ups Boreland
TV News: Countries that fight and unite remain worthy themes for longform — Kary Antholis, president of HBO Miniseries, estimates he listens to between 100 and 150 pitches a year. Given that HBO generally produces a single miniseries a year, he’s incredibly selective.
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Miniseries mantra: Make movies the length of novels
TV News: TBS yakker to try new tools — As his TBS yakker bows Nov.
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Conan O’Brien’s evolving talkshow
TV News: Negotiations break down over video use — AT&T dropped its Scripps Networks offerings from its U-verse lineup at 10 p.m. Thursday as a result of stalled negotiations over subscriber fees.
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AT&T ejects Scripps from U-Verse
TV News: O’Brien exec producer Jeff Ross explores the process — Having done it twice in the last year and a half, Conan O’Brien exec producer Jeff Ross knows a thing or two about mounting a large-scale latenight talkshow.
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‘Conan’ topper talks
A star of Discovery’s Storm Chasers killed himself in May, but Matt Hughes’ death was made public on last night’s episode of the show.
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Storm Chasers star Matt killed himself in May
TV News: Series premiere nabs 5.3 million viewers — AMC’s “The Walking Dead” drew 5.3 million for its premiere episode Sunday night, the most of any original series telecast on the network.
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‘Walking Dead’ kills for AMC
Dancing with the Stars dumped former The Hills star Audrina Patridge from the show last night, but she’ll soon be on another network in her own show.
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Audrina Patridge out of DWTS but gets her own VH1 series
TV News: Andrew Lenchewski, Michael Raugh ink two-year pacts — “Royal Pains” exec producers Andrew Lenchewski and Michael Rauch have signed exclusive two-year deals with Universal Cable Prods.
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‘Royal Pains’ producers sign Universal Cable deal
