In Japan, where the craze started, youngsters have been dispatching their Tamagotchi to the big hen-house in the sky.

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Do people want to have it sky-written over their house every day?

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It was a somewhat unexpected move, as 20th Century Fox has been doing pretty well with Blue Sky Studios, the production house behind the insanely successful Ice Age series.

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Sky Media, Sky's advertising and sponsorship sales house, will continue to represent NBCU's channels.

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The house is green, the sky is gray, the fire engine is red.

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For long minutes, she would stare as the colors faded and a glassy light emerged from the sky and from the Scotch pines surrounding the house.

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"The last couple of weeks there has just been a shambles over the House of Lords, " she told Dermot Murnaghan on Sky News.

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