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Italy’s Lux Vide, which has been pushing into the U.S. and international markets with high-end shows such as “Medici” and “Leonardo,” recently appointed former Warner Bros. Italy senior exec Barbara Pavone as its chief marketing and sales officer.

As part of her job Pavone, who is attending Mipcom, is dealing with Lux’s international co-productions and partnerships. Not surprisingly, one of her biggest challenges is retaining IP when she negotiates with streamers such as Netflix.

“It’s a privilege to work with global streaming platforms,” says Pavone who recently helped seal Lux’s first deal with a major streamer, details of which are being kept under wraps.

“For Lux it’s a priority to really act as a media company and retain as much as possible [of] the rights,” she notes.

But “with the streamers it’s a constant negotiation: they want them [the rights] all” Pavone adds, proudly pointing out...

Previously, on Smash

My, has it been a week already? Oh, no, it hasn't, it's just Smash moving to its Saturday night death slot.

So we open on some ridiculous shot of a bright light shining down on Ivy as a booming voice calls her name. It's Tom on a microphone, correcting a piece of Ivy's stage movement in “Public Relations”. They've been working on it for the last three days and she is completely over it. Me too. You know what would solve this? Cutting that turkey of a number.

Stage Manager Linda calls for a reset while Tom grabs a Twizzler and heads back to sit with Julia so he can bitch about how being a director isn't as much fun as he thought it was going to be. This man has had several Broadway hits; how can he be so oblivious to their requirements? He complains that...

As part of the ongoing Nöel Coward exhibit "Star Quality," the New York Public Library for the Performing Arts will host a rare presentation of footage from Coward's 1929 operetta "Bitter Sweet" Aug. 10. A short Q&A with exhibition curator Brad Rosenstein will follow. New York Public Library for the Performing Arts, Bruno Walter Auditorium, 40 Lincoln Center Plaza, Manhattan. 6 p.m. Free. www.nypl.org.

Asia: XXX (Frontiers)

That title's not triple-x as in porn, it's Roman numerals marking this supergroup's thirtieth anniversary (though I bet the confusion will increase this page's hits). Yup, three decades ago, "Heat of the Moment" was a massive hit. However, critics have tended to dislike Asia, either for dealing in pop rather than the glorious prog-rock of its members' previous bands -- Yes, Elp, and King Crimson -- or (if said critics are on the other side of the great divide) as dinosaurs still too proggy for naysayers in the post-punk era. Not this critic, through; I have always enjoyed John Wetton's voice, layered vocal harmonies, and melodic sense in every context, and never found Geoff Downes's keyboards and catchy songwriting/production the sacrilege that purist proggers did.

While there are some slight production differences from thirty years ago, basically this third studio album since the original lineup (Wetton,...

Season 2 of The Voice may have been a little coaches-centric for my taste, but Tuesday’s two-hour telecast was — and I say this with no sarcasm whatsoever — structured more perfectly than any reality-competition finale I’ve ever seen. Oh, sure, there were a few awkward moments where the Top 4 were painfully grafted onto performances by big-name artists with products or tours to promote — Juliet with Flo Rida? Tony, Jermaine, and Chris relegated to undetectable backup for Hall & Oates? — but their “victory lap” ditties allowed them to bring back fallen comrades in a celebration of the weeks and months of music...

Justin Bieber, Flo Rida, Lady Antebellum and Hall & Oates also perform leading up to Team Blake's victory.

By James Dinh

Blake Shelton and Jermaine Paul celebrate on "The Voice"

Photo: NBC

Universal Records added a new artist to their roster Tuesday night (May 8) when Jermaine Paul of Team Blake was named season-two champ during the finale of "The Voice," which also featured some major star power appearances from the likes of Justin Bieber and Flo Rida.

"I just wanted to say thank you for everyone that voted for me," the former Alicia Keys backup singer said on the sparkler-filled stage, before giving credit to his wife, children and parents. "God bless y'all, man. Nobody but Jesus, man, nobody!"

It was a close call, as host Carson Daly revealed just moments before the announcement that only a mere 4 percentage points separated Paul and runner-up Juliet Simms.

Kicking off the two-hour episode...

So Lando Calrissian is throwing one of his famous dance parties in the carbonite sewers of Cloud City, which I guess is the rough equivalent of a rich Manhattan socialite hosting a chicly unchic party in outer Brooklyn. Stormtroopers are dancing. My boy Lobot is spinning the discs. “Cloud City’s always lookin’ for new talent,” says Calrissian, who is a club promoter in his spare time. “You think you have what it takes?” At that point, Han Solo emerges from the carbonite container and starts dancing. And the song he’s dancing to is called “I’m Han Solo,...

The final trends covered in this brief overview of this year’s pilot season are the new bout of network sitcoms and also the new cable shows that are fighting their way onto your screens.

Sitcoms appear to be following the trend of success stories like Modern Family and New Girl and becoming more single-camera based than traditional multi-camera. Multi-camera sitcoms being the shows recorded in front of audiences on sets a la Friends and Seinfeld, whilst single camera sitcoms are the ones that are shot more like films with plenty of different locations a la Parks and Recreation and Community. This trend doesn’t seem to apply, however, if you’re CBS, the network appears to be enjoying a renaissance of multi-camera sitcoms with the successes of How I Met Your Mother and The Big Bang Theory which were both picked up for multiple seasons earlier this year.

The...

New Delhi, Feb 12: Whitney Houston's death elicited reactions from celebrities all over the world, including those from Bollywood.

The 48-year-old singer was found dead in the Beverly Hilton Hotel on Saturday, but police said there were "no obvious signs of criminal intent".

Both Shah Rukh Khan and Priyanka Chopra took to social networking sites to express their grief.

"Bitter sweet memories. That is all I'm taking with me. So goodbye please don't cry. Rip Whitney, you made me believe in magic and dreams," Chopra said.

Shah Rukh Khan tweeted about Houston's death through his twitter account 'Iamsrk'.

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The fan buzz surrounding the film adaptation of Cassandra Clare's hit Ya series The Mortal Instruments hit a record peak when Twilight star Jamie Campbell Bower was cast as Jace opposite Lily Collins' Clary Fray. Glamour UK interviewed Bower via Twitter livestream and the actor answered questions from said rabid fans, often about the upcoming shoot of the first film in The Mortal Instruments series, City Of Bones, and occasionally about Twilight: Breaking Dawn Part 1.

Lily Collins weighs in on the casting for Simon in The Mortal Instruments

Lily Collins weighs in as Alex Pettyfer as Jace in The Mortal Instruments, sorta

Here are his answers, via Glamour UK:

@felinavamp Will you do all your stunts in City of Bones?

If they let me

@beau_boogaart Have you changed much since Sweeney Todd?

Only my underwear

@JennSelby What are you most looking forward to in 2012?

Filming The Mortal Instruments...

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Radiohead’s “Paranoid Android” was selected by NME.com as the best song of the last 15 years. The British band’s song was followed by Arcade Fire, “Rebellion (Lies)“; Outkast, “Hey Ya!“; The Strokes “Last Nite“; The Killers, “Mr. Brightside“; The White Stripes, “Fell in Love with a Girl“; Hot Chip, “Over and Over“; Amy Winehouse, “Rehab“; The Verve, “Bitter Sweet Symphony“; and The Libertines, “Time for Heroes.” A complete list of the 150 best songs in the last 15 years can be found here.

Yep, you guys read that right. The beloved cult show “Arrested Development” is going to grace our TV screens once again….but only for a mini season of 10 episodes. Bitter sweet, but it’s something before the film finally hits the big screen in 2013. How do I know all this? It’s all over the Internet. Well, you guys can thank series creator Mitchell Hurwitz who managed to wrangle his whole “Arrested Development” cast during Sunday’s New Yorker Festival and announced the news at the event. While on stage, Hurtwiz announced that he’ll produce another nine or 10 episodes, but each installment would focus on a different Bluth in order to to catch audiences up on the characters’ lives in the five years since the series ended. “Arrested Development” star Jason Bateman confirmed the news by tweeting the following: It’s true. We will do 10 episodes and the movie.