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TORONTO: CCI Entertainment has scored an agreement with Discovery Home & Health in Latin America for two new seasons of the lifestyle series Candice Tells All as well as Divine Design. Produced by Fusion Television, Candice Tells All and Divine …

MUNICH: Your Family Entertainment (YFE) has signed an exclusive long-term agreement for the worldwide distribution rights for the 3D series Heroes of the City. The first season, which features 26 episodes, tells stories about rescue vehicles in a little city …

MIAMI: Litzy and Eugenio Siller have signed on to star in the new Sony Pictures Television (SPT) and Telemundo co-produced novela Una Maid en Manhattan. Litzy and Siller will also perform the theme song for the original production, which is …

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 …

NEW YORK: Time Warner has reportedly thrown its hat in the ring for the potential purchase of a majority stake in Poland’s TVN. ITI Holdings is reportedly selling its entire 56-percent share in TVN. Markus Tellenbach, TVN’s CEO, is said …

LONDON: Channel 4 has ordered a comedy about newspaper phone hacking from Guy Jenkin, co-creator of Drop the Dead Donkey. The hour-long program, tentatively titled Hacks, is set within a fictional newspaper, where phone hacking, blagging and "pinging" are used …

LONDON: ITV Studios and the British online gaming company Gamesys have signed a deal for the creation of a series of web games surrounding the Syco TV series Red or Black? The deal with Gamesys is for a series of …

LONDON: Zeppotron, Endemol UK’s comedy and drama production arm, is to produce the two-hour detective spoof A Touch of Cloth for Sky1 HD. The production is billed as an all-encompassing parody of every British crime drama ever written. It follows …

LONDON: Passion Distribution has secured a raft of deals across Asia, ahead of its attendance at the upcoming BCWW TV Market in Korea, which runs from August 31 to September 2. In Korea, the second seasons of Cupcake Wars and …

BOSTON: Bill Moyers, a veteran of public television, is set to deliver the keynote speech at the APT Fall Marketplace on November 10, while his new series, Moyers & Company, is to premiere in January 2012. Moyers will be speaking …