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CANNES: Shaftesbury and its digital media division, Smokebomb Entertainment, are launching their first original mobile app series, Totally Amp’d. The series, aimed at kids 8 to 14, combines a live-action broadcast-quality comedy series with interactive activities designed to bring viewers …

SANTA MONICA/CANNES: Lionsgate Television International and ex-MGM exec Maryann Pasante have come together to form Lionsgate-TISA Television International, focused on bringing the studio’s slate of TV series and films into Latin America. Pasante, the former MGM Television International head of …

CANNES: The animated series Zumbastico Fantastico from Chile’s Sólo por las Niñas Audiovisual will make its way to Cartoon Latin America.   Zumbastico Fantastico is a Sólo Por Las Niñas Audiovisual production in co-production with Televisión Nacional de Chile and with …

CANNES: More than 450 hours of programming from the A+E Networks catalogue have been scooped up by broadcasters worldwide, with deals on series such as Pawn Stars and Storage Wars. Pawn Stars has been sold to Seven Network (Australia), History …

CANNES/MAINZ: ZDF Enterprises has sold the Scandinavian crime series The Bridge and Sebastian Bergman to BBC Four for a 2012 debut.  The Bridge, a Danish/Swedish co-production, is a ten-part investigative crime drama. The series kicks off as the body of …

CANNES: Married…with Children and The King of Queens are both getting new international treatments following sales made by Sony Pictures Television (SPT).  SPT licensed the scripted format Married…with Children to Keshet in Israel, with 50 episodes to air on Channel …

CANNES: Exhibiting for the first time at MIPCOM, Miramax is keen to drive its international revenues to between 50 percent and 70 percent of its overall business within the next three years, the independent studio’s CEO, Mike Lang, told World …

LONDON: Season one of the reality show Mob Wives has been sold by Electus-Engine Distribution to Discovery Networks for the TLC channel across Europe.  The show, which follows the lives of four women whose husbands or fathers are in prison …

CANNES: The International Academy of Television Arts & Sciences unveiled 40 nominees in ten categories for the 39th International Emmy Awards, spanning a record 20 countries. The winners will be announced on November 21 at a black-tie ceremony in New …

CANNES: DCH Capital is investing $100 million in a fund to support media companies, co-production projects and media hub infrastructure. The DCH Media Fund will be based in Singapore, focusing on the funding of production companies and/or their projects, along …