entertainment - "television"

Cuba's state-run television broadcaster will start a 24-hour channel with mostly foreign content in a move to provide Cuban audiences with more variety.

New york - Friday Night Lights will shine again next season. The acclaimed football-and-family drama will return on NBC for a third year after 13 new episodes have aired on satellite-television provider DirecTV, in an unusual deal designed to spread production costs while rekindling a series whose audience until now has been as small as it is fervent.

TV News: Company closes licensing deals -- French toon company Xilam Animation is teaming with France television Distribution to produce a DVD Christmas special on Xilam's flagship animated cat 'Oggy.'

The NFL announced its 2008 preseason schedule on Thursday and a 13-game national television slate will feature all 12 playoffs teams from last season. It all starts with the Hall of Fame Game on Sunday, August 3 when the Indianapolis Colts and Was...

International News: $40 million must be cut in two years -- Pubcaster Swedish television is planning to pinkslip 400 staff as part of a drive to cut $40 million from the budget in the next two years.

Canadian Heritage Minister says she would wait a full year to wield new powers to deny film and television producers tax credits if their works do not jibe with taxpayer sensibilities

Bravo has now come up with 'Step It Up & Dance,' a competition that makes literal the cuts and bruises of the career-building genre.

The American Federation of television and Radio Artists says it will start contract talks with Hollywood producers on April 28.

Bravo's Project Runway became one of the first two reality series to receive a Peabody Award, which honors 'the best in electronic media.' The University of Georgia's Grady College of Journalism and Mass Communication, which gives the awards, explained the show's win like this: 'A series that redeems the reality-contest genre, this face-off competition among upstart fashion designers demands, displays and ultimately rewards creativity that can't be bluffed.'Although multiple news sources say that Runway is the first reality series to receive the award (Reuters, TV Guide, new york Magazine, another, albeit far less well-known reality series, also won an award this year. PBS' kid Design Squad, a competition between young product designers, also received an award this year. It was recognized because the show 'puts an educational emphasis into the reality-competition television format.' The Discovery Channel's documentary series Planet Earth also won a Peabody because it 'documented th