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Showtime series: Former “X-Files” star David Duchovny will return to television in a comedy series scheduled to premiere in August on Showtime. The network has ordered 12 half-hour episodes but doesn’t have a title for it yet.
Book prize: Banco del Libro, a nonprofit Venezuelan network that has been distributing books to children for nearly half a century, is the 2007 winner of the Astrid Lindgren Memorial Award for Literature. The award, which includes a cash prize of $710,000, was established by the Swedish government in 2002 and is the largest children’s book award in the world.
Safe landing: Leonardo da Vinci’s “Annunciation,” whose overseas loan sparked outrage in Italy, was unloaded unscathed Friday at Tokyo’s National Museum and sealed behind bulletproof glass by white-gloved workers. It’s part of an exhibition that opens Tuesday.
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