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LOS ANGELES/NEW YORK, October 4: Jon Helmrich, the founder and president of International Broadcast Communications (IBC), is heading for MIPCOM with a diverse slate of programs. Helmrich, who established IBC in 2001, divides his business between program sales and channel …

LONDON, October 4: BBC Worldwide has concluded a new distribution deal with Kudos Film and Television, taking on more than 55 hours of prime-time output from the British independent. The deal increases the total Kudos catalogue with BBC Worldwide to …

LOS ANGELES, October 4: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studios’ worldwide television group has appointed Christopher Ottinger as executive VP of international television distribution. Ottinger will be based in MGM’s Los Angeles headquarters and is charged with direct oversight of MGM’s pay-TV licensing and …

MAINZ, October 4: ZDF and its commercial arm, ZDF Enterprises, have teamed with the CBC for India Reborn, a four-part, high-definition multimillion-dollar documentary coproduction. Three India Reborn episodes are being led by CBC teams, with the fourth being done by …

NEW YORK, October 4: The stock footage library HBO Archives has announced that newly restored footage from the Academy Award-winning newsreel and documentary series The March of Time is now available to producers in all fields. Produced by Time Inc., …

LONDON, October 4: Discovery Networks UK will premiere the Discovery Channel show Chop Shop: London Garage on its online video service Discovery On Demand today, four days before the linear TV launch. “Our goal is to bring Discovery programming to …

HILVERSUM, October 4: Endemol has notched up a slate of format deals ahead of MIPCOM, including agreements on the game show 1 vs. 100 in Thailand and Israel. Thailand’s Channel 13 has signed on for a run of 13 episodes, …

LOS ANGELES, October 4: CaribeVisión, a new television network targeted to the Hispanic-Caribbean market in the U.S., will premiere an original entertainment news program, Hollywood Café, on October 21 at 7:30 p.m. The half-hour weekly series will be hosted by …

LONDON, October 4: HIT Entertainment has appointed two new publishing partners for its recently acquired girl-skewing property Rainbow Magic, and offered a first look at the upcoming television series based on the property at the Brand Licensing show. HIT has …

LONDON, October 4: FremantleMedia will head to MIPCOM armed with a diverse range of formats, led by The Next Great Band, Hole in the Wall, The Gift, Temptation and I Know You Know. FOX’s musical talent show The Next Great …