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HERTFORDSHIRE: Parthenon Entertainment has sold 80 hours of programming to leading free-TV broadcasters in Scandinavia, including Norway’s NRK. TV10 in Sweden picked up 65 hours of blue-chip science and history series, including the 13×1-hour Sports Science, which tests top athletes …

SINGAPORE: The Outdoor Channel Asia has secured a partnership with the Coca-Cola Indonesian Surfing Championship (ISC) and the Asian Surfing Championship (ASC) to air the competitive events throughout the Asia-Pacific region. As a result of the deal, the Outdoor Channel …

SILVER SPRING: Investigation Discovery has added its first docu-series, Big Law: Deputy Butterbean, starring Eric “Butterbean” Esch, a 400-pound former heavyweight boxer who joins the Sheriff’s Narcotics Unit in Jasper, Alabama, to its lineup. The ten-part series will premiere Tuesday, …

MONTREAL: Telefilm Canada is again working with Rogers Group of Funds on a program to finance documentary films, in English and French, for theatrical release. The Theatrical Documentary Program aims to encourage the production of high-quality Canadian feature-length documentaries. It has …

LONDON: UKTV-owned factual channel Yesterday has taken the exclusive British rights to a new series from World Media Rights about World War II for broadcast as part of its Spirit of 1940s programming strand. Narrow Escapes of World War Two, a …

LONDON: Sky Italia chief Tom Mockridge has been tapped by News Corporation to succeed Rebekah Brooks as the CEO of News International, following her resignation today. Mockridge, a News Corp. veteran, has led the Italian pay-TV platform since 2003. He has …

PARIS: CANAL+ has finalized a deal to acquire 33.33 percent of the Orange Cinema Series package of channels from France Telecom. Under the terms of the new partnership, France Telecom’s Orange will maintain a 66.66 percent stake in Orange Cinema Series, …

LONDON: The Syfy channel in the U.K. has shored up the rights to the American superhero drama The Cape from NBCUniversal International Television Distribution. The ten-part series comes to British audiences on July 21. It is a Universal Media Studios …

NEW YORK: Quirky, a new non-fiction series about a website that helps inventors turn their ideas into real products, has been added to the Sundance Channel’s schedule. The six-episode series, launching August 30, focuses on Quirky.com, a product development company …

BEIJING: Metan Development Group’s Hello! Hollywood, an entertainment series produced for the Chinese market, reaches its 100-episode milestone on July 30. The series first debuted in September 2009 on ten stations in China, but is now available on more than …