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SINGAPORE: Cartoon Network Asia is expanding its SNAPTOONS animation initiative to Singapore following rollouts in India, Malaysia and Australia, via a partnership with the Media Development Authority (MDA). SNAPTOONS (Short New Asia Pacific Cartoons) will enable Cartoon Network to connect …

LONDON: Sky has bagged the exclusive U.K. rights to Stephen Spielberg’s highly anticipated series Terra Nova in a deal with Twentieth Century Fox Television Distribution. The show, from Spielberg, Peter Chernin, Brannon Braga, René Echevarria and Aaron Kaplan, is launching …

LONDON: News Corporation has moved a step closer to taking full control of British satellite giant BSkyB, with Secretary of State for Culture, Olympics, Media and Sport, Jeremy Hunt, asserting that there has been no new evidence to change his …

HONG KONG: Fox International Channels’ (FIC) STAR Movies is bringing to Asia a lineup of exclusive premieres that includes Crazy Heart, Dear John and Date Night. The slate launching July 3 features "Big Heart Movies," with Crazy Heart, Dear John …

LONDON: The Paperny Films-produced series Eat Street has a 13×30-minute second season in the works for the fourth quarter of 2011, which Passion Distribution will be handling distribution for. In Eat Street, the mission is to find the best street …

SILVER SPRING: The SCIENCE channel is set to premiere the final flight of NASA’s Space Shuttle program in Last Shuttle: Our Journey, Friday, July 8, at 10 p.m. Last Shuttle: Our Journey will provide footage from the day’s launch of …

LONDON, June 30: Andrew Nicholson has been named executive producer for ITV Studios Factual (North) and in-house production team Shiver, while Sally Evans takes on the role of executive producer and head of development. Both Nicholson and Evans will be …

LONDON: Zodiak Kids’ live-action show Summer In Transylvania’s distribution has been expanded to Nickelodeon channels across Europe. Summer in Transylvania originally ran in the U.K., but will now be airing in Germany, Italy, Benelux, the Nordic region, Spain and Portugal. …

NEW YORK: Univision Communications has upped Randy Falco, the executive VP and chief operating officer, to president and CEO, with immediate effect. Falco also becomes a member of the Univision Board of Directors. He was appointed to his executive VP …

LOS ANGELES: FremantleMedia Enterprises (FME) has scooped up the worldwide distribution rights, excluding North America, to Lisa Kudrow’s 10×30-minute Showtime series Web Therapy. The show was reformatted from the short-form web series of the same name from Is or Isn’t …