FOSTER CITY, March 9: Sony Computer Entertainment America (SCEA) has secured agreements with 20th Century Fox, Walt Disney Pictures, Paramount Pictures, Sony Pictures Entertainment, Universal Pictures and Warner Bros. Digital Distribution to offer HD movies for purchase and rental on the PlayStation Network video delivery service in the U.S.

NEW YORK, March 9: ABC's broadcast of the 82nd annual Academy Awards on Sunday brought in an average audience of 41.3 million total viewers, qualifying as television's most watched entertainment telecast since 2005, according to Nielsen's "Fast National" ratings.

BURBANK, March 9: FOX has given a third-season order to the J.J. Abrams drama Fringe, which is to resume airing in its second season with eight fresh episodes on April 1.

BURBANK, March 9: ABC Family has picked up the network TV premiere rights to The Blind Side, which stars Sandra Bullock in her Oscar-winning role.

MUNICH, March 9: Tandem Communications has begun principal photography on its newest movie, The Lost Future, for commissioning broadcasters RTL Television of Germany and Syfy in the U.S.

HOLLYWOOD, March 9: David Chase, the creator and producer of The Sopranos, is to make his feature film directing debut with a music-driven coming-of-age story set in 1960s suburbia for Paramount Vantage.

NEW YORK/UNIVERSAL CITY, March 9: NBC has renewed its exclusive agreement with Donald Trump and the Miss Universe Organization to broadcast the Miss Universe and Miss USA pageants for an additional three years, effective in 2011.

LOS ANGELES, March 8: In addition to scoring the night's big win as best picture, The Hurt Locker took home five additional Academy Awards, including a best director nod for Kathryn Bigelow.

BURBANK, March 8: ABC Family has clinched the rights to Walt Disney Pictures' new blockbuster Alice in Wonderland for a 2012 U.S. network television premiere.

UNIVERSAL CITY, March 8: NBC has renewed three more series for its Thursday night comedy lineup, with 30 Rock, The Office and Community set to rejoin Parks and Recreation.

TORONTO, March 8: Cream Productions has completed production on the new 4x1-hour Aftermath series for National Geographic Channel in the U.S. and History Television in Canada, and the show will be launched at MIPTV by ITV Studios Global Entertainment.

NEW YORK/LONDON, March 8: Philip Bourchier O’Ferrall has been upped to senior VP of digital media for MTV Networks International.

ALVISO, March 5: A U.S. appeals court has sided with TiVo in the latest development in its long-running dispute against DISH Network and EchoStar over patent infringements of its DVR technology.

BURBANK, March 5: The CW is bringing back Smallville, a modern retelling of the Superman legend, in the fall for a tenth season.

NEW YORK, March 5: Martha Stewart Living Omnimedia (MSLO) has greenlit a new eight-episode unscripted series, called Help Me, Martha!, which is being produced in association with Mark Burnett.

NEW YORK, March 5: David Bernath has been promoted to executive VP of program strategy and multiplatform programming at Comedy Central.

SEATTLE, March 4: RealNetworks has agreed to cease supporting its RealDVD software and will shell out $4.5 million to settle lawsuits with the Hollywood studios and the DVD Copy Control Association.

NEW YORK, March 4: Shine Group's chairman and CEO, Elisabeth Murdoch, was interviewed by World Screen's group editorial director, Anna Carugati, at NATPE this year.

NEW YORK, March 4: Jeff Gomez and Nathan Mayfield will be hosting a session at the MIPTV Producers' Forum—a two-day initiative organized in association with World Screen—about developing stories and concepts across multiple platforms.

LOS ANGELES, March 4: The Paley Center for Media has tapped Steve Mosko, Tony Vinciquerra and Dick Lippin to serve as co-chairs of a planning committee that will explore the creation of an awards show.

NEW YORK, March 4: Production on the second season of Warehouse 13 starts this month in Toronto, with 13 new episodes returning in the summer, kicking off on July 13.

LOS ANGELES, March 4: MarVista Entertainment has acquired the worldwide distribution rights for the feature film Mandie and the Secret Tunnel, the first movie in a series based on the books of the same name by Lois Leppard.

LOS ANGELES, March 4: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Pictures (MGM) and Rubicon Group have announced the launch of Pink Panther & Pals, the first new series in the iconic franchise in 17 years, on Cartoon Network on March 7 at 7:30 a.m.

NEW YORK, March 3: The Producers' Forum is a new two-day initiative at MIPTV, organized in association with World Screen. Kicking off a series on the panelists at Producers' Forum, David Lyle, the president of Fox Reality Channel, discusses the Entertainment Master Class on selling and protecting formats.

BRUSSELS/SILVER SPRING, March 3: Discovery Communications is launching the female-skewing lifestyle channel TLC globally, starting in Norway on March 4.

NEW YORK, March 3: The Daily Show and The Colbert Report will be removed from Hulu next week, after the video site was unable to clinch a new deal with Viacom-owned Comedy Central.

NEW YORK, March 3: Disney Channels Worldwide has unveiled the 2010-11 programming highlights for Disney Channel and Disney XD in a presentation to U.S. advertisers.

WASHINGTON, D.C., March 3: National Geographic is launching the new network Nat Geo Wild, which spotlights the the animal kingdom, on March 29, along with an HD feed.

NEW YORK, March 3: Comedy Central has greenlit the new half-hour weekly scripted series Workaholics from Avalon Television and Gigapix Studios.

LONGWOOD, March 3: The Television Syndication Company (TVS) has picked up the U.S. syndication rights for the DIY home-improvement series Ron Hazelton's HouseCalls, previously distributed by MGM.