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MAINZ: At this year’s MIPCOM, ZDF Enterprises will be introducing a new premium short-video service, contunico, aimed at media professionals who want a quick and economical way of adding audiovisual from ZDF’s archives to their projects. contunico provides short films, …

WESTLAKE VILLAGE: A new wireless VOD service from Row 44 brings in-flight passengers access to movies and TV shows from partners such as Disney, Universal, Twentieth Century Fox and Warner Bros. to be streamed on smartphones, tablets and laptops. Passengers …

BONN: Deutsche Welle’s DW-TV Arabia has slated a six-hour block of programming in Arabic, with the core schedule made up of four half-hour segments of the news flagship Journal. DW-TV Arabia has launched the six-hour block in Arabic for prime …

Nigel Lythgoe has been a pioneer of the modern talent-competition show. Starting with Popstars and Pop Idol in the U.K. and then American Idol and So You Think You Can Dance, whether as a judge or an executive producer, Lythgoe …

ENCINO: Anthony Masi and Ryan Turek’s new documentary Still Screaming: The Ultimate Scary Movie Retrospective is being distributed internationally by Solid Entertainment. Still Screaming looks into the Scream trilogy film phenomenon. It features on-set footage and interviews with cast and …

MUNICH: SevenOne International has secured the distribution rights to the family feature film The Greening of Whitney Brown, produced by Perfect Weekend. The feature film stars Aidan Quinn (Legends of the Fall), Brooke Shields (The Blue Lagoon), Kris Kristofferson (Blade) …

HOLLYWOOD: Richard Goldsmith has been named the executive VP of global distribution at The Jim Henson Company. Goldsmith will report to Peter Schube, the president and COO of the company. He will oversee worldwide distribution of all company properties in …

TORONTO: Portfolio International is to launch sales for Brilhante F.C. and Young Abraham at MIPCOM. Brilhante F.C. is a teen dramedy about five girls who form the first all-girl football team in a small town in Brazil. The series is …

CHICAGO: The U.S. channel Vibrant TV, which is to launch in 2012, has made Victoria Quoss the senior VP of network development. Quoss will report to Dan Zifkin, the president and CEO of Vibrant TV and will be based in …

BEVERLY HILLS: Fun World Media is making its international debut at MIPCOM, with the tween comedy series The Jadagrace Show, as well as a range of family programs. The Jadagrace Show is a 26 half-hour episode series about an 11-year-old …