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PREMIUM: Gary Carter, FremantleMedia’s COO, tells World Screen Newsflash about the company’s pact with Fuji, along with sharing his thoughts on what’s driving the gains within the digital-content division and the challenges of rolling out scripted formats. While perhaps best …

BURBANK: ABC Family has ordered another season of Make It or Break It, and has placed a back-order pickup for The Lying Game, alongside four new pilots. Make It or Break It, about Olympic hopefuls in training, will return with …

MONTREAL: Formaction.tv is set to debut six original formats created, developed and produced by Bubbles Television and La Boîte de Prod. of Attraction Media group, at MIPCOM. The format Bet’n Bond is a new game from Bubbles Television currently broadcast …

NORWALK: CABLEready has picked up several new original series for its catalogue, following newly inked agreements with Finland’s Aito Media and Spain’s D4D. CABLEready has expanded its food programming to include a pair of series hosted by chefs Eric Ripert …

HONG KONG: Tiger Gate Entertainment’s KIX channel has secured the exclusive TV rights for Asia to Mark Burnett’s action-reality series Expedition Impossible. The 24-hour pay-TV channel will air Expedition Impossible from October 12 every Wednesday night at 9 p.m. in …

MADRID: TOAC has completed a deal with Prointel to launch a revamped version of the game show One, Two, Three…Say It Again at MIPCOM. One, Two, Three was created in 1972 and has aired internationally for more than 30 years. …

PARIS: FremantleMedia Enterprises (FME) is to release a new range of licensed products of Rebecca Bonbon, a French bulldog character designed by Hello Kitty creator Yuko Shimizu, across France. FME exclusively represents Rebecca Bonbon globally (excluding Japan and Korea) on …

LOS ANGELES: MarVista Entertainment has landed the international distribution rights for three live-action kids’ series from Saban Brands, including Ninja Turtles: The Next Mutation. MarVista has the distribution rights for Ninja Turtles: The Next Mutation, the only live-action version of …

LONDON: Zinkia Entertainment has made CAKE the international distributor for its hit kids’ property Pocoyo in a number of territories. The deal excludes Spain, Latin America, the U.S., Italy, China and Portugal, which Zinkia handles. CAKE will be responsible for …

NEW YORK: Rental continues to be the preferred method of consumption for video content, according to a new report from PwC. The report, entitled Premium Content Consumption: Responding to the "Instant Access" Consumer, says that although the premium video content …