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UNIVERSAL CITY: NBC has teamed up with Volkswagen of America for a web series based on the hit comedy Parks and Recreation, with the five-episode, online-only plot line to feature the characters embarking on a road trip. The November 3 …

LONDON: ITV has locked in a third season of the hit period drama Downton Abbey, with the new installment of the Julian Fellowes drama to launch in fall 2012. The final episode of the second season is to air this Sunday …

NEW YORK: The stars of the new AMC original series Hell on Wheels, Anson Mount, Colm Meaney and Dominique McElligott, sat down with World Screen to talk about their characters and the show, which premieres this Sunday in the U.S. …

CENTURY CITY: Twentieth Century Fox Consumer Products has partnered with SimEx-Iwerks for the Ice Age franchise’s new attraction, Ice Age Dawn of the Dinosaurs: The 4-D Experience, set to debut in March at Merlin Entertainment’s two theme-park resorts. Ice Age …

SINGAPORE: StarHub has inked new VOD licensing agreements with Twentieth Century Fox, NBCUniversal and Walt Disney Studios, and has renewed its agreement with Sony Pictures Television for StarHub’s On Demand service. Library movies from Twentieth Century Fox, NBCUniversal and Walt …

MUMBAI: The BIG CBS Prime channel in India is launching the new U.S. legal drama series The Defenders on November 7. The Defenders features Las Vegas defense attorneys who lead the law firm of Morelli & Kaczmarek, with Jim Belushi …

SYDNEY: The international co-production Teenage Fairytale Dropouts, distributed by CCI Entertainment, has been added to Seven Network’s lineup for 2013. The 52-episode 11-minute series is a co-production between Anima Estudios, SLR Productions, Home Plate Entertainment and Telegael. CCI Entertainment signed …

NEW YORK/LOS ANGELES: Abigail Harvey and Noah Pollack have both been named VP of reality programming for Lifetime Networks for the East and West Coast, respectively. Harvey and Pollack will be responsible for developing and overseeing production of non-fiction projects …

LONDON: ITV Studios Global Entertainment’s Asia-based channel ITV Granada has secured new carriage deals with major pay-TV platforms in the Middle East, India and South Korea. The deal sees ITV Granada launching in the Middle East on the OSN DTH …

LONDON: HISTORY in the U.K. has commissioned Shaun Ryder On UFOs, a new series from the production company Back2back. The eight-episode hour-long series features Ryder, who claims to have seen a UFO at the age of 15 and attributes other …