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TORONTO: ION Television has secured the rights to seasons one and two of The Listener, produced by Shaftesbury in association with CTV and Fox International Channels, as production begins on season three of the drama. The series is broadcast on …

LONDON: As of yesterday, Turner Broadcasting UK is offering free episodes from five Adult Swim series on Facebook in the U.K. via Milyoni’s Social Cinema technology. The shows available to watch on Adult Swim U.K.’s Facebook page are Robot Chicken, …

LONDON: Warner Bros. International TV Production (WBITVP) has named former Endemol executive Peter Langenberg the VP of business management, a newly created position.   Langenberg will be based in London and will be responsible for supporting WBITVP and all local …

MUNICH: SevenOne International has sold the U.S. movie The Greening of Whitney Brown, which stars Aidan Quinn and Brook Shields, to the Swiss free-TV channel 3+. The family adventure features Quinn (Legends of the Fall) and Shields (The Blue Lagoon) …

CANNES: The Banijay Group’s Nordisk Film TV has been commissioned to co-produce The Voice Of… for Norway’s TV2. The local adaptation of the hit singing competition will launch within the next six months. Magne ‘Mags’ Furuholmen from ’80s pop sensation …

PARIS: Banijay International has sold its format Date My Car to QIYI, China’s first online TV portal, which is to produce 20 half-hour episodes of the show for a sponsorship partner.   This is the second adaptation deal for Date …

CANNES: FremantleMedia Enterprises (FME) has scored a five-year deal with Fox International Channels that sees the recently launched Dutch channel 24Kitchen become the new home for Jamie Oliver shows, while a separate deal sees a package of titles featuring the …

LONDON: The new preschool series Mouk is headed to Disney Junior channels across EMEA this fall.   The Walt Disney Company EMEA has inked a multi-territory deal for the show with Millimages. The agreement covers rights for the U.K., France, …

CANNES: Some 500 hours of new lifestyle content is headed to Fine Living Network for its internationally distributed channel, including a license agreement with Veria for more than 200 hours HD programming. Among the titles picked up from the Veria catalogue …

CANNES: The first project to come out of the recently announced partnership between FremantleMedia Enterprises (FME) and Animation Collective is Black Dawn, a live-action and animated series. Black Dawn, created by Animation Collective CEO Larry Schwarz, is a science fiction action-adventure …