Star TV finds new satellite platform
Asian satcaster Star TV is moving its satellite platform to AsiaSat 3S, a satellite launched March 21.
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Schaer to top USA’s syndies
Valerie Schaer is ankling her post at ABC Daytime to join Barry Diller's Studios USA as its Gotham-based head of syndie programming and development.
Stein tapped VP at HIT
HIT Entertainment, a U.K.-based producer-distributor of children's and natural history programming, has tapped Holly Stein as VP of consumer products for the company's newly established U.S…
Granada, NBC toast deal for pilot of ‘Small Beer’
Granada Entertainment USA has signed a partnership deal with NBC Studios for the pilot of a proposed hourlong series for early 2000 called "Small Beer."
Pix musical chairs
In the latest round of last-minute changes to the summer schedule, Paramount has shifted the release dates of three pics.
Public ‘Party’ plans
It's no secret that the Public Theater is hard at work producing the musical "The Wild Party." But now Public Theater insiders say that Hollywood and Broadway producer Scott Rudin has expressed…
‘Ark’ floats NBC’s boat
NBC deluged the April 26-May 2 primetime Nielsens competition with a torrent of ''Noah's Ark'' viewers, buoying NBC to an early May sweeps lead of epic proportions.
Italian expansion
Adding another key territory to its international expansion program, U.S. exhibition group Loews Cineplex Entertainment Corp. has pacted with Italian producer-distributor Aurelio De Laurentiis to…
Irked Eisner egged on in Katzenberg trial
In some of the most intense and provocative testimony so far, Disney chairman Michael Eisner on Tuesday flushed red with anger when asked if he had ever called Jeffrey Katzenberg "a little midget."
Lions Gate opens for Nicholson
Rapidly expanding specialized distributor Lions Gate Releasing has tapped former Universal homevid exec Susann Nicholson for the newly created post of director of ancillary sales.
L.I. fest opens with ‘Farmhouse’
The 16th annual Long Island Film Festival, running May 20-23 and five Wednesdays in June announced the pics slated to unspool at this year's fest, to be held at the Westhampton Beach Performing Arts…
