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ATLANTA: Cartoon Network has picked up the television rights to The Annoying Orange, a web series watched by millions on YouTube. The new half-hour television series based on the web series will premiere in 2012 as part of Cartoon Network’s …

NEW YORK: CBS has ordered 25th and 26th editions of the hit reality competition Survivor for the 2012-13 broadcast season. Jeff Probst will return as host and executive producer for the new installments. He has been the host of Survivor …

BARCELONA: TV3 has signed with DreamWorks Television for the adaptation of the series The Red Band Society that will air on ABC in the U.S. The series’ first season, originally titled Polseres Vermelles, aired on TV3 in the 10:30 p.m. …

NEW DELHI: Discovery Turbo, the 24-hour male-skewing channel dedicated to speed, has expanded its reach in India with a launch on the DTH platform Reliance Digital TV. The service is already available in India on Dish TV, Tata Sky, Airtel Digital …

MADRID: Vértice 360’s El líder de la manada, hosted by César Millán, will launch at the end of the month on Cuatro in prime time. Nathalie García, the general director of content production and development at Vértice 360, said “the …

BRUSSELS: Former Zodiak USA exec Ludo Poppe’s new outfit EcchoMedia has landed two deals for the Peking Express format, which is returning to Net5 in the Netherlands for a fifth season and M6 in France for an eighth. EcchoMedia’s EcchoLine …

MONACO: Monaco Mediax, which organizes such industry events as the Monte-Carlo Television Festival, Imagina, SportelMonaco and SportelAsia, has promoted Laurent Puons to the role of general manager, as David Tomatis leaves his CEO duties to take on a new senior …

LOS ANGELES/NEW YORK: Debmar-Mercury and ITV Studios America are bringing back The Jeremy Kyle Show for the 2012-13 season, with the syndicated talk show cleared in more than 50 percent of the U.S. Renewals for the FOX and Sinclair stations bring …

BURBANK: Andie MacDowell and Erica Dasher star in the new ABC Family series Jane By Design, premiering January 3. The one-hour series is about a regular high school girl who hides her true identity in order to work as an …

NEW YORK: A new deal for three additional seasons of the animated comedy South Park will see Comedy Central airing original episodes through 2016, taking the show into its 20th run. Trey Parker and Matt Stone will continue to write, …