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LOS ANGELES/MEXICO CITY, June 7: Carlos Sandoval, the general director of content acquisitions at the Mexican media giant Televisa, says he will surely be buying a number of shows he saw at the L.A. Screenings. “We don’t need any specific …

MIAMI: Telemundo Internacional’s Cruel Love has made its debut in Turkey on Star TV, while Generation Y premiered in Romania on Acasa TV. The telenovela Cruel Love, filmed in locations around Miami in HD, debuted in the 8:45 p.m. slot …

LOS ANGELES: Several new properties are slated to make their debut at the Licensing International Expo in the catalogue of The Jim Henson Company. Wilson & Ditch: Digging America was produced for the Internet destination PBSKIDSGO.org. The property invites kids …

LONDON: Sony Pictures Television’s new football documentary How to Win the FIFA World Cup has clinched deals in numerous territories across Europe, Latin America, Asia and Africa. Produced in partnership with Castrol, the doc includes footage from World Cup tournaments …

SILVER SPRING: Discovery’s HD Theater is to debut the new series Lightscapes on June 21. Lightscapes features the work of Japanese media artist Akira Hasegawa. He uses his unique Digital-Kakejiku (D-K) art form that projects large-scale, abstract-painting-like images onto famous …

NEW YORK: In time for MIPCOM, World Screen is launching its latest portable directory, the TV Formats Distributors Guide, providing comprehensive information on format-distribution companies and their top titles. TV Formats Distributors Guide is the latest in World Screen‘s series of portable …

TORONTO: Canadian broadcaster CTV has added a total of 11 series to its 2010/2011 schedule, with seven premiering in the fall—including the new Law & Order spinoff and the Michael Chiklis ABC drama No Ordinary Family—and has also announced the acquisition …

PARIS: The deals continue to roll in for AB International’s B.F.F. Best Friends Forever, following sales to Disney in Latin America, India, Spain, Germany and Italy. Nickelodeon Benelux and Scandinavia signed up for 74 7-minute episodes and a Christmas special, …

NEW YORK: Icon Films has been commissioned to produce a third season of River Monsters for Animal Planet, after the second run became the network’s most-watched series in its history. Season two of River Monsters averaged more than 1.5 million …

NEW YORK: Hallmark Channel has added a slate of all-new programming from Martha Stewart Living Omnimedia, with an original "how-to" block set to launch exclusively on the cable network this fall. The new programming includes the debut of The Martha …