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BERLIN: EuroArts Music International and NHK have produced a charity concert to benefit the March 11 earthquake and tsunami victims in Japan, and will start worldwide TV and DVD distribution of the event, donating the revenue to the Japanese Red …

HILVERSUM: Ynon Kreiz has left his post as the chairman and CEO of Endemol, resigning after a three-year tenure. Kreiz’s departure comes in the wake of reported financial troubles at the Dutch media giant. Endemol confirmed last month that it …

SANTA MONICA/VANCOUVER/MONTREAL: Lionsgate has sold its Canadian distributor, Maple Pictures, to Alliance Films for approximately $38.5 million. The Alliance group acquires Maple and its film library, taking over responsibility for Maple’s exclusive five-year output deal for the Canadian distribution of …

SHERMAN OAKS: My Ride Rules, a new show from ITV Studios America for the SPEED channel, is to premiere August 3 at 9 p.m. In the 13-episode half-hour show, four motor enthusiasts riding in each other’s cars will compete for …

NEW YORK: Viacom has filed suit against Cablevision Systems Corp. for making its channels available on an iPad app that allows subscribers to stream live video feeds. Viacom says that Cablevision’s Optimum app, launched April 2, violates its agreement to …

LONDON: The game show Pointless, from Endemol’s Remarkable Television, is moving from BBC Two to BBC One starting next month. The show will debut on BBC One in July, kicking off its run with five episodes of Pointless Celebrities, which sees well-known …

LONDON: A second season of Jungle Junction, from the British production outfit Spider Eye, is to premiere on Disney Junior in the U.K. on June 25. Jungle Junction is the first animated preschool series to come from Disney’s European development …

OTTAWA: Pre-production has begun on Genuine Pictures’ live-action/CG-animated series Beats in Bites, set for broadcast on TVOntario in early 2012 with distribution being handled by CCI Entertainment. Beats in Bites celebrates the art of beatboxing. It features Canadian beatbox artists …

PARIS: The Brazilian mobile operator TIM has added the French-language France 24 service to its offerings. The 300,000 subscribers of the TIM TV offer now gain free access to France 24 throughout all Brazilian states. The moves comes as part …

LONDON: Season two of the in-house produced Nickelodeon UK kids’ show The Bopps is to premiere June 27. The series will air every day at 7:35 a.m. on Nick Jr. on the Wake Up World morning block. The live-action sing-along …