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CANNES: Best Boy Entertainment has sold the series The Skinny Dip to Travel Channel across territories in Europe, Africa, the Middle East and Asia Pacific. The Skinny Dip features gutsy globetrotter Eve Kelly recruiting total strangers to join her as …

BURBANK: Ty Pennington, the host of ABC’s Extreme Makeover: Home Edition, is joining Project Runway’s style mentor Tim Gunn and renowned fitness and nutrition expert Harley Pasternak on The Revolution, ABC Daytime’s new daily show about health and lifestyle transformations. …

CANNES: Armoza Formats has firmed up a multi-territory deal for 24/7 Love Lab with Viasat, for channels in Sweden, Norway and Denmark.  This is the first deal on 24/7 Love Lab, a relationship reality format. The series aired on Israel’s Channel 10, …

CANNES/NEW YORK, October 4: AMC/Sundance Channel Global has picked up the rights to a range of new series for its international channel portfolio in 2012, including Hell on Wheels and Breaking Bad. From Entertainment One Television (eOne), AMC/Sundance Channel Global …

CANNES: The European Broadcasting Union (EBU) and Steps International unveiled at MIPCOM plans for a global media event in November 2012 focused on why a billion people around the world are still living in poverty. Forty pubcasters from across the …

CANNES: Studio100 Media has sold the exclusive free-TV rights for the newly re-mastered 3D series Maya the Bee, Vicky the Viking and Heidi to Radio Television Suisse (RTS). The deal covers a four year period with unlimited runs. The three …

LOS ANGELES/TORONTO: Entertainment One (eOne) has aligned with Viasat Broadcasting for a distribution financing co-venture for The Firm.  The deal, which marks Viasat’s foray into the distribution financing arena, covers the TV broadcasting rights in Denmark, Norway, Sweden and Eastonia, …

CANNES: LI TV Holdings has acquired the Sony Pictures Television series The Nate Berkus Show for its pay-TV channel Life Inspired (Li) to air in multiple territories across Asia starting in January 2012.  The one-hour lifestyle show features practical and …

CANNES: Endemol Worldwide Distribution has secured a slew of international sales for the U.S. sitcoms Happily Divorced and The Exes, both produced for TV Land.  Both shows are headed to SBS in the Netherlands, SABC in South Africa, Shaw TV in …

CANNES: The Brazilian TV Producers Association (BTVP) and the Producers Alliance for Cinema and Television (PACT) are co-hosting a breakfast matchmaking event on October 5 at 8:45 a.m. BTVP is representing 35 Brazilian companies at MIPCOM, while PACT has 41 …