TV News: Fox Look to sell Juma, IMG’s ‘Elevator Up!’ — Hold the door — Juma Entertainment (“The Singing Bee”) and IMG Media have lined up Fox Look to sell a new elevator-themed gameshow to international buyers.
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Quiz show could rise at Mipcom
TV News: Sirius Radio taps thesp to anchor fantasy football show — After years of playing the sidekick, Jerry Ferrara is happy to step into the spotlight, even if it’s on a different wavelength.
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‘Entourage’s’ Ferrara fields radio gig
TV News: Mipcom keynoter cites growth potential in genre for studio — Jon Feltheimer doesn’t want a new “Mad Men.”
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Lionsgate looks beyond ‘Men’
TV News: Reality show part of Manato 1′s lineup — Iran is rightly renowned for its cuisine, but quite what the country will make of an Iranian version of the hit Brit irreverent reality skein “Come Dine With Me” is anyone’s guess.
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Iranian network to serve ‘Come Dine With Me’
TV News: Syndie yakker to debut in fall 2011 — CNN anchor Anderson Cooper will attempt to succeed where many have failed, launching a new syndie daytime yakker in fall 2011.
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Anderson Cooper set for new talkshow
TV News: Deal covers series, movie distribution — Spanish broadcaster Telecinco and the Walt Disney Company have inked a significant multi-year, strategic TV and movie deal.
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Disney pacts with Telecinco
TV News: TLC to launch, use locally produced shows — Discovery Communications is ramping up in Russia.
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Discovery increases Russia activities
TV News: Digital net goes out to non O&O’s for the first time — The broadcast nets are finally starting to get serious about programming and distribution for the fledgling digital channels run by their O&O stations.
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ABC’s Live Well net to land on five more affiliates
TV News: ‘Supah’ gets series order — Nickelodeon has given a series order to “Supah Ninjas,” a new live-action comedy from Varsity Pictures’ Brian Robbins.
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Nick nabs more ‘Ninjas’
TV News: Characters with disabilities on TV one percent — The new “Where We Are on TV” report from the Gay & Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation says characters with disabilities represent only 1 percent of scripted series regular characters — six out of 587 — on the five major networks.
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Report: Disabilities not represented fairly
