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Article: Leo Headlines for Green.(Leonardo DiCaprio to launch Discovery Communications' Planet Green)
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- July 23, 2007
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By Linda Moss
Beverly Hills, Calif.- Actor Leonardo DiCaprio will help launch Planet Green, Discovery Communications' eco-lifestyle channel, by resurrecting a tiny Midwestern town as part of a new TV show.
DiCaprio will be working on the first series that Discovery Communications has green-lit for Planet Green, Eco-Town , Discovery CEO David Zaslav said at the recent Television Critics Association summer tour.
Discovery is relaunching Discovery Home as Planet Green in the first quarter of next year.
A casually attired Zaslav, dressed in an open white shirt and blue jeans, said that Planet Green's 13-part series will be about the ...