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SAN DIEGO: The U.S. luxury lifestyle and entertainment network WealthTV has added the crime series Intelligence to its lineup, debuting the two-hour pilot on October 4.  The series stars Ian Tracey as the head of a West Coast crime family. …

CANNES: The new television adaptation of John Grisham’s The Firm will be much more than a standard legal drama, its executive producer, Lukas Reiter, tells World Screen Newsflash: "You get that action component but you also get a family drama …

CANNES: In addition to driving sales on two new buzz-generating dramas at MIPCOM this week, Entertainment One Television will be looking to further expand its roster of co-production partners, its CEO, John Morayniss, told World Screen Newsflash in Cannes today. …

CANNES: World Screen Newsflash sat down with three of the stars of AMC’s new period drama Hell on Wheels—being offered up to the international market by Endemol Worldwide Distribution and Entertainment One Television—to talk about the series’ depiction of the …

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 …

DALLAS: The number of U.S. consumers planning to purchase a smart TV has nearly doubled in less than a year, according to new research from Parks Associates.  The report, Consumer Decision Process: Summer Update, finds that 10 percent of broadband …

LONDON: CBeebies has ordered the new 3D CGI animated preschool series Dinopaws from Impossible Kids, the children’s division of Impossible Pictures and Kindle Entertainment. Dinopaws follows three young dinosaurs—Gwen, Tony and Les—on a mission to discover something new every day …

CANNES: Broadway Video Digital Distribution will be in Cannes this week introducing international broadcasters to a catalogue of U.S. soap operas, including As the World Turns and Guiding Light. Earlier this year, Broadway Video Digital Distribution scored the international distribution …

LOS ANGELES: Rive Gauche Television has licensed 100 hours of programming to Foxtel and Seven Network in Australia. The two Rive Gauche series sold are Operation Repo and Dog Whisperer. Operation Repo is about the world of car repossession and …

CANNES: The newly rebranded Cineflix Rights has lined up a broad portfolio of new and returning shows to exhibit at its bigger booth at MIPCOM. "The name change emphasizes how we have been stepping up the company’s growth by exploiting …