MTV to air Michael Jackson’s ‘This Is It’

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MTV has won the TV rights to the Michael Jackson movie, This Is It.

Variety has reported that the TV network will retain the rights to the film for six years from 2011.

The concert film shows Jackson rehearsing for a his planned concerts in London O2 Arena. In it’s opening weekend it grossed over $23 million – in the United States alone. With the film’s current worldwide revenue gross of over $196 million, the film is the highest grossing concert movie in history.

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