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STOCKHOLM: NonStop Entertainment has awarded the exclusive pay-TV rights for its titles to C More for the Swedish, Norwegian, Danish and Finnish markets. Among the first NonStop titles to have their pay-TV and SVOD premiere with C More are Wes Anderson’s Moonrise Kingdom, David Cronenberg’s Cosmopolis as well as Beasts of the …

PREMIUM: Andrew Davies talks to TV Europe about his approach to telling the story of retail magnate Harry Gordon Selfridge in late-19th- and early-20th-century London with his latest project, Mr Selfridge, which ITV Studios Global Entertainment is distributing worldwide. TV EUROPE: How did Mr Selfridge come about? DAVIES: Kate Lewis, who …

PARIS: Twentieth Century Fox’s Marion Edwards, BSkyB’s Sophie Turner Laing and Russia Today‘s Margarita Simonyan are joining A+E Networks’ Nancy Dubuc on the panel at MIPCOM’s Women in Global Entertainment Power Lunch. Dubuc, the president of entertainment and media at A+E Networks, is joined by Edwards, the president of Twentieth Century …

LONDON: The Secret Dude Society, a tentatively-titled sitcom, has been ordered by BBC Three from Zodiak Media’s The Comedy Unit. The 6×30-minute studio show will be written and performed by Pappy’s, a popular U.K. comedy trio made up of Tom Parry, Matthew Crosby and Ben Clark. Filming will commence in 2013 at …

LONDON: UKTV’s Dave is bringing the Red Bull Cliff Diving World Series to British television for the first time ever, airing seven half-hour competitions this fall. Dave has also re-ordered the freestyle motocross series Red Bull X-Fighters for a fifth season. UMTV, which has been producing Red Bull X-Fighters for …

MADRID: Content from Televisión Española, including the historical series Isabel, will be presented for international buyers at MIPCOM by RTVE’s commercial department. Isabel is a prime-time series that spotlights Spain’s Isabella the Catholic. The drama is being offered by RTVE alongside the new comedy Stamos okupa2. The series features Carmen …

STOCKHOLM: Jonas Linnander-Manfred has been named the new managing director of international sales for MTG Studios, effective October 15. In his new role, Linnander-Manfred will work toward transforming the company—formerly named Modern Studios—into one of the industry’s top content providers. Linnander-Manfred previously worked for ITV Studios Nordic, where he served as the director of international …

MUNICH: The Walt Disney Company has bought the German commercial channel Das Vierte. The purchase is still subject to approval by the German federal cartel office Bundeskartellamt. Das Vierte, which translates to The Fourth, was purchased by Disney from the Russian media executive Dmitry Lesnevsky. Disney is already present in …

STOCKHOLM: Eccho Rights, the new distribution branch of the Sparks/Eccho Group, is slated to offer an array of new formats and series this MIPCOM. Unscripted formats include titles such as Exit, a room-escape challenge variety show from NTV; My Way, a KBS entertainment reality format involving a singing competition in …

PREMIUM: ITV’s singing contest The X Factor pulled the biggest audience of the week September 16 to 23 in the U.K., with other ITV shows also taking top spots in the ratings chart. With show creator Simon Cowell making a rare personal appearance, X Factor attracted 9.36 million viewers Sunday, …