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LONDON: ITV has commissioned The Exit List, a new game-show format in which contestants can win up to £200,000. Hosted by Matt Allwright, the program features a pair of contestants in a 24-room maze with every room containing cash, and …

DOHA: The Al Jazeera Media Network has plans to launch a new dedicated sports news channel next month, coinciding with the 15th anniversary of Al Jazeera. Al Jazeera Sports News is slated to launch on November 1. The channel will …

LONDON: The HISTORY channel has secured further distribution in Hungary through an agreement with Antenna Hungária. The deal makes HISTORY available to subscribers on Antenna Hungária’s DTT MinDig TV Extra service. A+E Networks UK currently offers HISTORY and HISTORY HD …

STOCKHOLM: Viasat Broadcasting has added nine catch-up channels, including TCM, CNN and Nickelodeon, to its Viaplay service across the Nordic region. The channels offer select programs that have previously aired. Subscribers with an Internet-connected set-top box can access the catch-up …

SILVER SPRING: Discovery Networks International (DNI) has commissioned Nutopia to produce the new documentary series How We Invented the World. How We Invented the World will be adapted and customized for each of Discovery’s key territories, with audiences able to …

MOSCOW/BURBANK: The Walt Disney Company and UTH Russia have signed a deal to bring an ad-supported free-to-air Disney Channel to Russia early next year. Under the terms of the deal, Disney will, through one of its subsidiaries, acquire a 49-percent …

LONDON: CBeebies has ordered 52 11-minute episodes of the new 3D CGI animated preschool series Dinopaws from Impossible Kids, the children’s division of Impossible Pictures and Kindle Entertainment. Dinopaws features three young dinosaurs on a mighty mission to discover something …

MADRID: FOX International Channels (FIC) has struck a deal to acquire Viajar, a Spanish documentary pay-TV channel previously owned by Prisa TV. Viajar, dedicated to travel and travellers, will retain its positioning, style, formats and programming. The service continues to focus …

LONDON: CBBC has commissioned Zodiak Kids’ production company The Foundation Scotland to produce Ultimate Sports Day, a new children’s sports series to air in 2012. The 11-episode half-hour series hosted by Ore Oduba (BBC Sport presenter, CBBC’s Newsround) features four …

DOHA: Miramax is partnering with the Doha Film Institute to offer a summer internship opportunity for the university-level students in Qatar to work with Miramax executives in the company’s Los Angeles and London offices. The focus of the Media Immersion …