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CANNES, October 4: Cineflix Studios has secured a number of Scandinavian deals for Copper, as well as landed a slot for the show, a new crime drama produced in partnership with BBC America, with Shaw Media in Canada. Shaw Media …

MUNICH: The yourfamily pay-TV channel from Your Family Entertainment (YFE) has been added to Deutsche Telekom’s IPTV platform entertain. yourfamily will be part of the pay-TV packages Kinder and BIG TV. The channel has been available on Deutsche Telekom’s VOD …

LONDON: Former Endemol Asia sales and licensing manager Nuno I is to lead Electric Sky’s new operation in Hong Kong.  Nuno was with Endemol for a number of years, responsible for markets such as Korea, Japan, China and Singapore. Nuno later …

CANNES: Comedienne Margaret Cho is in Cannes with Beyond Distribution this week to promote her new stand-up special Cho Dependent. The 83-minute special was filmed in Atlanta and sees the Asian-American comedienne opening up about variety of topics. "It’s my …

CANNES: Gina Matthews and Grant Scharbo are intent on making "television for the world" with their new ABC Studios drama Missing, which Disney Media Distribution has licensed into more than 80 territories. The show had its world premiere screening at MIPCOM …

MUNICH: Netflix has taken the exclusive streaming rights for Lilyhammer, a new series distributed by SevenOne International that star Stevie Van Zandt tells World Screen Newsflash is a natural fit for U.S. audiences even though it originates from Norway. Van …

LONDON, October 4: The CBeebies preschool series Driver Dan’s Story Train, produced by 3Line Media in association with Blink Studios and twofour54 Abu Dhabi, heads into its second season of 50 new episodes on November 7. The series premiered in …

CANNES: ITV Studios Global Entertainment has won multiple commissions for its reality entertainment format May the Best House Win, with sales into Canada and Europe.  Canada’s Shaw Television is on board for 13 episodes, to be produced by Proper Television. …

CANNES: The four original documentaries jointly commissioned and funded by MediaCorp and NHK from The Asian Pitch in 2010 are now available for international sales at MIPCOM.  From India, Angels of Troubled Paradise follows the life of a young Kashmiri …

NEW YORK: Yahoo! and ABC News have struck up an alliance that sees the two sharing content and creating web originals for the digital landscape.  ABC News will be the premier news provider on Yahoo! News, with content prominently integrated …