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TORONTO: Canada’s Shaftesbury is setting up a new division, Shaftesbury U.S., with headquarters in Los Angeles, to focus on development for the U.S. market. Tom Mazza, former president of Columbia TriStar Network Television, and senior development executive Maggie Murphy will …

RIO DE JANEIRO: DIRECTV Latin America has secured the first and second seasons of the hit BBC Worldwide series Mad Dogs and Outcasts. Mad Dogs, which stars Max Beesley (Survivors, Hotel Babylon), Philip Glenister (Life on Mars, Cranford) and John …

NEW YORK: BBC America and Logo are to serve as joint U.S. co-producers on three brand-new specials for Absolutely Fabulous, which will be represented for global distribution by BBC Worldwide. Absolutely Fabulous, a BBC Comedy production, was introduced  20 years ago. Jennifer …

SYDNEY: Beyond Distribution has picked up the distribution rights for A List Entertainment’s catalogue of comedy specials and programs. A List’s collection of 33 titles will be released at MIPCOM. The programs featured include Arj Barker, David Strassman, Puppetry of …

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MUNICH: PULS 4 in Austria has ordered a second season of the SevenOne International dating series Love Bites. Love Bites (Messer, Gabel, Herz) will air on the Austrian TV station PULS 4 daily at 7:45 p.m. The series features four …

LONDON: Passion Distribution is to offer a range of factual and factual-entertainment programs at MIPCOM, including Disco Diva Mums and Pamper Parlour Mums. Passion will be offering the one-hour special Disco Diva Mums from Landmark Films. It follows a group …

SINGAPORE: mio TV has launched two new Asian channels for Jingxuan Pack subscribers, Celestial Movies and Jia Le Channel. Jia Le, a new 24-hour Asian entertainment channel with content in Hokkien dialect and Mandarin from top producers in Taiwan and …

EDINBURGH: ITV1 received its first win as the terrestrial channel of the year at the MediaGuardian Edinburgh International Television Festival, while BBC Three won in the digital channel category. This is BBC Three’s second win in the category. BBC One’s …

CUPERTINO: Apple has withdrawn the option to rent TV shows, which had been offered to customers for $0.99 an episode, from its iTunes digital store and its Apple TV set-top box service. "iTunes customers have shown they overwhelmingly prefer buying …