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New comedy series Party Down hits Starz in 2009

[Above: Show creator/producer Rob Thomas with his Veronica Mars star Kristen Bell]Starz is really getting into this whole original programming thing. The network's first drama series, Crash, premiered on Friday and it already has one half-hour comedy planned for 2009 entitled Head Case. Now, the cable channel is announcing plans for an additional comedy, Party Down, to premiere alongside it....  read more

Netflix deal with Starz adds 1,000 films to Watch Instantly

Amid varied threats from like-minded competitors, Netflix has steadily maintained its dominance among nontraditional DVD services with a superior selection, social networking and other features. Most important among the company’s recent innovations, though, is Watch Instantly, a streaming catalog of thousands of film and TV titles that are available for free to most Netflix subscribers and help ensure Netflix’s long-term vitality as instant video becomes more widespread online....  read more