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TBS hit a home run Sunday night as Game 7 of the American League Championship Series, with the Tampa Bay Rays beating the Boston Red Sox and going to the World Series, attracted 13.4 million total viewers. This game became the most-watched regular or postseason MLB game this year as well as in cable’s history. (Cynopsis 10/21)

Rob Riggle, correspondent on Comedy Central’s The Daily Show With Jon Stewart made a talent holding agreement with CBS and CBS Paramount Network Television to create and star in a half-hour comedy, according to Variety. Riggle has not yet committed to a storyline for his show although he may base it on his own background as a major in the U.S. Marine Corps Reserve. (Cynopsis 10/21)

Comcast-owned FearNet on Nov. 6 will premiere “The Dark Path Chronicles,” a series about a young vampire who explores parallel realities with a gal pal. The series is expected to have a strong musical element and was created by music video director Mary Lambert, who has worked with Madonna and Janet Jackson. Reuters/The Hollywood Reporter (10/21)

MSNBC Films will premiere on Oct. 29 its first theatrical release, “Dear Zachary: A Letter to a Son About His Father.” The film, about the custody battle that ensues after the murder of a Pennsylvania doctor, will debut in Manhattan and then be rolled out to select markets, including Los Angeles, Chicago and Santa Fe, N.M. Variety (10/20)

BBC is gearing up to broadcast our November 4 presidential election night to more than 200 countries worldwide. Broadcasting live from its Washington, D.C. bureau, BBC will present U.S. Election Night on BBC America and BBC World News with limited commercial breaks starting at 6p. (Cynopsis 10/21)

Comcast, the country’s largest cable TV provider, will continue to look for new ways to add original content to its video-on-demand menu, including more aggressively seeking out co-production deals with the broadcast networks, according to Steve Burke, the company’s chief operating officer. “We’re very interested as a company and as an industry in future product that becomes available for the VOD platform,” he said. Broadcasting & Cable (10/20)