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TORONTO: Canadian actress Molly Parker (Deadwood, Swingtown) has signed on for The Firm, a new legal drama from Entertainment One (eOne) and Sony Pictures Television Networks for broadcast on NBC, Global and AXN. Parker will play Abby McDeere, whose husband …

NAIROBI: Eastern Africa’s Wananchi Group has signed a deal with Zee Network to carry three of the Indian broadcaster’s channels—Zee Cinema, Zee Zing and Zee Punjabi—on its Zuku cable and DTH platforms. The three-year deal expands the Zuku triple-play brand …

NEW YORK: Al Jazeera English has secured further U.S. carriage through Time Warner Cable and Verizon FiOS, bringing the English-language news service to 2 million homes in the New York City region via a deal with Regional News Network (RNN). …

BURBANK: Nickelodeon has picked up a third season of the animated series T.U.F.F. Puppy from creator Butch Hartman to roll out in 2012. Season three of T.U.F.F. Puppy will include 20 episodes. The show ranks as the number-two animated series …

NEW YORK/SINGAPORE: Saugato Banerjee has been named the director of strategy and business development for Asia at A+E Networks. Banerjee will be based in Singapore and report to Alan Hodges, the managing director for Asia Pacific at A+E Networks. He …

LOS ANGELES: The Oprah Winfrey Network (OWN) has set a premiere date of October 10 for Rosie O’Donnell’s new talk show, The Rosie Show, as well as the program Own Your Life, featuring the best of The Oprah Winfrey Show. …

PARIS: Egmont Kids Media is to develop a line of books and magazines based on the new CGI Studio 100 series Maya the Bee for Central and Eastern Europe. Egmont will release storybooks, activity, audio and novelty books, and branded …

SILVER SPRING: SCIENCE has slated the new factual series JUNKies and Stuck with Hackett to debut on August 18. Jimmy Ruocco, the “Junk Genius,” hosts JUNKies, which schools viewers on finding spare parts in Long Island’s Freeport Junk and Wrecking …

MIAMI: Telemundo International’s telenovela The Queen of the South (La Reina del Sur) debuted yesterday in Israel on Viva Platina following success in the U.S., Latin America and Europe. The Queen of the South is currently being broadcast in Ecuador, …

LONDON: Profit for the year ended June 30 as BSkyB dipped 7.7 percent to £810 million, on revenues that were up 16 percent to £6.6 billion. The satellite platform reported 10.3 million customers at end June 30, including 3.8 million …