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CABLEU U WANT TO HAVE YOUR VOICE HEARD? Sound off on our industry at the CableU Confidential Blog ! The CU Confidential Blog features exclusive articles written by industry professionals, interviews with programming execs, and now, it's YOUR place to hear and be heard. CableU Confidential - Now U Know. www.CableU.tv Cynopsis: International 07/11/08 Good morning. It's Friday, July 11, 2008, and this is your first early morning International & Multicultural briefing. INTERNATIONAL MARKET: Watch, GOLD and Alibi are the names of UKTV's redone entertainment channels with all three set to make their re-grand entrance in the beginning of October. The first, formerly UKTV Gold +1, will be a subscription network airing current BBC shows as well as original commissions such as the weekday Richard and Judy talk show. The GOLD, previously UKTV Gold, is an acronym for Go On Laugh Daily, will switch over from a classic series channel to one airing classic and current comedies in addition to two new shows, Blackadder Exclusive: The Whole Rotten Saga and Blackadder's Most Cunning Moments. UKTV Drama becomes Alibi, which will broadcast only crime programs. Nickelodeon Poland joins as the newest addition to MTV Networks International's cache of channels in Central and Eastern Europe. Targeting the K2-12 audience, the Polish-language network started airing midday yesterday on Vectra, UPC, Aster and Multimedia, among others. In addition to international content from Nickelodeon's animation library, localized productions will be part of the mix. The first will be the 20x5-minute Dancing Nick, which teaches kids some dance moves. Nickelodeon Poland also launched online simultaneously at the Polish-language www.nick.com.pl while more content will also be available on mobile via the Orange network. STAR is all set to launch STAR CHINESE MOVIES 2 on July 21 on now TV in Hong Kong. Airing in both Cantonese and Mandarin, it will be all about Hong Kong movies from the 1970's to 1990's. Chinese titles across genres such as kung fu/martial arts, action, crime/thriller, comedy, drama and romance will be screened with a Bruce Lee Retrospective kicking off the launch as a tribute to the 35th anniversary of his death. Toronto's Breakthrough Films & Television has started production on a new documentary series entitled Greatest Tank Battles in association with History Television. The 10x60-minute war program looks back at history's more cataclysmic (just like saying that word) armored battles. Warner Bros. International Television Distribution (WBITD) is tip top with Top Up TV after signing a deal with the premium TV content provider on Freeview. Premium entertainment on-demand content will be available to Top Up TV Anytime subscribers through Warner TV, a dedicated Warner Bros.-branded VOD channel. Warner TV programs from have been available since June 30 with plans within the next few months including bringing PPV movies to all Top Up TV customers. Two new rights deals announced from U.K.-based companies ...
EXECUTIVE MOVES: Factual entertainment/daytime series producer Flame TV is undergoing a bit of an internal restructuring, which will see co-founder Roger Bolton (founded with Barbara Altounyan) become Chairman and keep a particular eye on documentary commissions. The Roger Bolton Productions subsidiary company will be integrated completely into Flame TV. Barbara Altounyan will continue as Director/Programs. Claire Featherstone, Director/Production and Julius O'Dowd, Commercial Director, will join Flame TV's Board. Film and Television consultant Jonathan Olsberg has been named as a non-executive Advisor to the Board. In a restructuring of a different sort, Virgin Media Television has redone its look and given Amy Barham some more responsibilities. She will become Virgin Media Television's Head/Acquisitions,overseeing Bravo, Challenge and Trouble's teams in addition to her current LIVING, LIVING2 and Virgin1 tasks.As part of the restructure, Ronan Hand has been upped to Acquisitions Manager/Virgin1, Bravo and Bravo 2 while Alex Ayling comes on board as Acquisitions Executive/LIVING and LIVING2 from his Research and Insight Manager position at MTV UK. Brad Wood continues as Acquisition Executive/Challenge with all the execs reporting to Amy. Friday Fun Fact: The most venomous animal in the world is the gold poison arrow frog which has enough poison in its system to kill 20 humans. Answer to Yesterday's Trivia Question: Now that we all know that The Cisco Kid's horse was Diablo, what was the name of Pancho's horse? LOCO Kudos to just one: Kathy Alexander-SpotPlus y Mas/Dallas Today's Trivia Question: Food Network host Wolfgang Puck is originally from what country? (Email with your answer and be sure to include your name, company, city and time zone. Unofficial rules: Only the second four correct answers from each time zone will be mentioned; and once you've been mentioned in any of the Cynopsis editions, you can't be mentioned again that calendar week.) Later -- Cyn 07.11.08 Cynopsis International Ad Sales: Jason Cesare - 732-718-0629 / Classifieds - Trish Pihonak- 203-926-9878 / Cynopsis website - Video Resumes, Extended Classified Ads, Archives, and the Cynopsis Daily Video To subscribe to any Cynopsis edition(s) click here . To unsubscribe , click here or click the button at the end of this email. CableU - Know Networks Better. Pitch Smarter. Click here A CYNOPSIS MESSAGE FROM CYNOPSIS MEDIA: TOP TIER
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