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NEW YORK, April 13: HBO is giving non-subscribers a chance to watch its two new series Veep and Girls for free, offered the day after their network premieres.
TOKYO, April 13: Hulu has revealed a price cut of 33 percent for streaming customers in Japan in a bid to lure more subscribers.
LONDON, April 13: XII Tribes Entertainment has signed up Natacha Régnier to join the cast of its prime-time drama Signs, which is distributed by Panini Media.
SYDNEY, April 13: BBC Worldwide Australia has named Helen Pendlebury, who is relocating from ITV in the U.K., as its head of commercial, entertainment and children's brands.
NEW YORK, April 12: World Screen Newsflash recaps the deals and trends that dominated the headlines in Cannes last week.
NEW YORK, April 12: A video of the Q&A session featuring Josh Sapan, the president and CEO of AMC Networks, and World Screen’s Anna Carugati that took place at MIPTV following Sapan’s Media Mastermind Keynote is now available.
WASHINGTON, D.C., April 12: A report from the U.S. Commerce Department has found that intellectual-property intensive industries support at least 40 million jobs, contributing more than $5 trillion to the U.S. economy every year.
MONTREAL, April 12: Tasked with reducing its expenses by C$10.6 million over the next three years, Telefilm Canada has announced cuts to its development and production financing funds.
DALLAS, April 12: More than 25 percent of all video viewing in U.S. broadband households now happens on platforms other than the television, according to new research from Parks Associates.
MUMBAI, April 12: Turner Broadcasting System Asia Pacific is shuttering its Hindi-language general-entertainment network Imagine TV, acquired from NDTV in 2009, as a result of poor ratings.
NEW YORK, April 12: AMC is planning to adapt a second comic by The Walking Dead creator Robert Kirkman, entitled Thief of Thieves.
LONDON, April 12: Sky has scored the entire James Bond film library from Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studios for its Sky Movies service, where the titles will be available starting in October.
LONDON, April 12: The U.S. reality show Fear Factor, produced by Endemol USA, has been picked up by Channel 5 in the U.K. to air on its digital service 5*.
SINGAPORE, April 12: Marking its first ever format sale to China, NBCUniversal International has licensed the prime-time trivia format Still Standing to the Jiangsu Broadcasting Corporation.
LONDON, April 12: ITV has commissioned a two-hour film adaptation of Ian Rankin's bestselling book Doors Open, to be made by Stephen Fry's Sprout Pictures.
LONDON, April 12: Christiane Amanpour's new series, Amanpour, is to launch on April 16, serving as the centerpiece of a new CNN International lineup.
LOS ANGELES/TORONTO, April 12: In cooperation with the Estate of Marilyn Monroe, Entertainment One (eOne) is developing and producing Finding Marilyn, a series that will give 12 young women a chance at Hollywood stardom.
LONDON, April 12: The latest addition to the BBC One comedy roster is Me & Mrs. Jones, starring Sarah Alexander (Coupling) and Neil Morrissey (Men Behaving Badly).
LONDON, April 12: The new entertainment series Mother of Invention, which looks through patent archives for viable ideas, is being produced exclusively for Sky Atlantic HD.
LONDON, April 12: The CBS Drama channel is building up its new evening Happy Hour block with the addition of the hit classic sitcom Cheers.
BURBANK, April 12: Disney XD has ordered a new live-action comedy that features puppetry, Crash & Bernstein.
NEW YORK, April 12: All-new episodes of World's Wildest Police Videos join Spike TV's May schedule alongside the original series Undercover Stings.
LONDON, April 12: Cactus TV is bringing the U.K.'s Good Food channel a new series led by Madhur Jaffrey, who will explore Britain's modern love affair with Indian cuisine.
NEW YORK, April 12: Driving its push into film and television, Condé Nast Entertainment has hired Jeremy Steckler as executive VP of motion pictures and Michael Klein as executive VP of alternative programming.
LONDON, April 12: Simon Spalding, who previously held senior-level stints at FremantleMedia, has joined Yummi Media Group as CEO, spearheading the international rollout of formats.
PARIS, April 12: Marc Dorcel saw a 10-percent increase in its business volume last year, with sales figures reaching 25.5 million euros.
NEW YORK, April 11: World Screen Newsflash recaps highlights from this year’s edition of MIPDoc and the documentary and factual programming deals that followed at MIPTV.
PORT WASHINGTON, April 11: The monthly rates for pay TV have grown an average of 6 percent per year, with The NPD Group predicting monthly bills to reach $200 by 2020.
TORONTO, April 11: The 2012 Market Tools survey from QuickPlay Media has found increased interest and adoption of mobile TV and multiscreen services, with 57 percent of respondents reporting that they are interested in multiscreen viewing.
NEW YORK, April 11: Listen to comic-book legend Stan Lee as he talks to World Screen Newsflash about his new endeavors at POW! Entertainment, where he serves as chairman and chief creative officer; the art of creating memorable, long-lasting superheroes and upcoming cameos in the Spider-Man and Avengers feature films.
