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LOS ANGELES/LONDON: Lawless Entertainment has been appointed as the worldwide representative for animation, licensing, merchandising and publishing for the Big Giggles children’s properties Superbike Sam and TeeHee. “Superbike Sam and TeeHee have great potential and we are excited to represent …

VANCOUVER: The HGTV reality series Consumed, produced by Paperny Entertainment, has been renewed for a second season that is set to premiere on HGTV Canada in summer 2012. Consumed challenges Canada’s biggest pack-rat families to survive for 30 days with …

LOS ANGELES: The new original adventure series Da Vinci’s Demons, written by David Goyer and developed and produced by BBC Worldwide Productions, has been greenlit by Starz Entertainment. The eight-episode series, written by Goyer—co-writer of the films Batman Begins and …

NEW YORK: Comedy Central has renewed its single-camera comedy Workaholics for a third season. The series, starring Blake Anderson, Adam Devine, Anders Holm and Kyle Newacheck from the sketch-comedy group Mail Order Comedy, is about recent college graduates who work …

NEW YORK: CBS has given full season orders for its new dramas Unforgettable and Person of Interest. Unforgettable, the season’s number one new drama in viewers, stars Poppy Montgomery, Dylan Walsh, Michael Gaston, Kevin Rankin and Daya Vaidya. It features …

NEW YORK: A video excerpt from MIPCOM’s Acquisition Superpanel—What Do Buyers Want? session, which featured an engaging conversation between CTV’s Mike Cosentino, Sky’s Sarah Wright, Channel 5’s Jeff Ford, Televisa’s Carlos Sandoval and World Screen‘s Anna Carugati, is now available. …

LONDON: BBC Worldwide has named Philipp Schmid the co-production manager of factual for Germany and France. The newly created role meets the demand for locally tailored programs in France and Germany, and Schmid will be responsible for seeking out and …

NEW YORK: A digital edition of World Screen’s AFM 2011 issue is now available, as well as Screening Rooms for a number of distributors heading to the market. Hot Topics: Give Me a Break—Tax incentives and lush locations are luring …

LOS ANGELES: Showtime has ordered a second season of its new drama series Homeland consisting of 12 new one-hour episodes, which will begin production in spring 2012.   The series, which debuted as the network’s highest-rated freshman drama series ever, …

HAMILTON: Central European Media Enterprises (CME) has reported positive third-quarter revenues, up 23 percent on the year-ago period to $165.5 million. Operating income before appreciation and amortization (OIBDA) for the three months ended September 30 was $8.9 million, from a …