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VIDEOAGE "PAPER CLIPS": A WEEKLY PRESS REVIEW PROGRAMMING
NYPD Blue alum Rick Schroder, 36, is in for one hell of a day when he
joins the cast of 24 as CTU operative Mike Doyle when Day six (or season six)
begins on Sunday, January 14 on Fox in a two-hour season premiere. The former
child star, who appeared on Silver Spoons, is the latest in a string of familiar
faces 24 viewers will be treated to this winter. Peter MacNichol, formerly of
Ally McBeal; Ray's Regina King; and L.A. Confidential 's James Cromwell will
all be on hand to help Kiefer Sutherland's Jack Bauer save the world -- for at
least one more day.
E! Online
The Disney Channel is set to create a new animated series based on British
author Enid Blyton's Famous Five, but has decided to update some of the 60-year-old
language. Disney will develop a 26-episode cartoon to be produced in Britain
with the aim of airing it on the Disney Channel in 2008. Disney will work with
Chorion, a British company that owns the rights to the books, to give the 1940s
tale a contemporary twist.
Smallscreen News
He may lag behind Jay Leno in the ratings, but CBS still knows a good thing
when it sees it. The funnyman host of The Late Show with David Letterman has
inked a contract extension with the network that will keep him hosting through
2010. The new deal ensures that Letterman will remain on the air a year longer
than Leno, his main timeslot competitor. Since he began as host, The Late Show
has racked up 54 Emmy nominations and won nine awards, including six for Outstanding
Variety, Music or Comedy Program.
E! Online
After hosts-to-be Paris
Hilton and Britney Spears dropped out of the Billboard Music Awards, the
show still went on Monday, December 4 -- albeit with no one at the helm --
with Mary J. Blige scoring an impressive nine trophies, including R&B/Hip-Hop Artist of the Year and R&B/Hip-Hop
Album of the Year. Seventeen-year-old Chris Brown took home New Artist of
the Year and the top prize, Artist of the Year. Rihanna was named Female
Artist of the Year, while The Fray won a trio of awards recognizing digital
sales performance.
E! Online
BUSINESS
Fees for TV networks would probably anger audiences, John Cassday, CEO of broadcaster
Corus Entertainment, told the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications
Commission during the second day of a review into the state of Canada's TV
industry. The two-week review, which began in late November, is the first
major inquiry into the rules governing the region's TV networks since the
late 1990s. A number of nets, including CTV, CBC and Global have called for
regulatory changes, including a controversial request to start charging cable
and satellite companies fees for their signal.
The
Globe & Mail
Chinese subscribers to direct satellite TV will exceed 15 million by 2010,
according to the 2006-2007 Report on China's Satellite Television Industry.
By the first half of 2006, there were 140 million Chinese subscribers to cable
TV. Two-thirds of Chinese households still receive wireless TV signals and
some regions receive no signals at all. Direct satellite television has an
advantage in signal coverage and can be applied in commercial operations.
China Gateway
TECHNOLOGY
Researchers can already detect tampering in still images, but are only beginning
to tackle the same problem when it comes to video. Dartmouth researchers
have come up with a method for detecting if high-quality video has been re-saved
-- a sign indicative that someone has tampered with the original file. While
the technique will not work well with low-quality YouTube images, it is well
suited for high-quality video such as that from surveillance cameras.
Technology Review
PIRACY
In China last week, a man was sentenced to life in prison for running what
the state media called the country's largest-ever film disc smuggling ring.
A court in the southern Guangxi region convicted Lin Yuehua and 11 gang members
of buying five production units to make DVDs and VCDs, setting them up in
a foreign country and smuggling in over 30 million bootleg discs into China
between 2002 and 2005.
China Digital Times
FILM
Telefilm Canada plans to pour an additional $700,00 annually into beefing up
Canada's international film presence. In a pilot program, the federal agency
said it will allocate up to $200,000 a year to support the profile of French-and
English-language films officially selected for screening at five key festivals
-- Cannes, Berlin, Pusan, Sundance and Venice. A second initiative would
spend $350,000 to $500,000 to boost the marketing and promotion campaigns
of French-language films in international markets. Each project would receive
a maximum of $50,000.
The
Globe & Mail
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