Random House and TV producer and distributor Freemantle Media will team up to launch Random House Television, which will develop TV shows based on the publisher's books or developed by Random House authors. Both companies are part of Bertelsmann AG. "Jeffrey Levine, formerly of Spring Creek Productions, has been hired as head of TV and will report to Random House Studio [the company's entertainment divison] president Peter Gethers," writes Laura Hazard Owen.