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WESTON: World Media Pictures (WMP) has been tapped as the exclusive distributor for Turner Broadcasting System Latin America’s original series The Band for Eastern Europe, and is currently showcasing the title as part of its DISCOP slate. The Band takes …

LONDON: Content Television has secured the worldwide distribution rights, outside of China and Japan, for the factual series World Heritage of China, via a deal with China Stories Inc. The HD doc series was produced by China Central Television (CCTV), …

LOS ANGELES: Addressing some of the logistical difficulties from this year’s NATPE Conference and Market, the event’s organizers have unveiled some changes for the 2012 edition, including adding additional exhibition meeting room options and spreading out the exhibitor suites at the Fontainebleau …

BUDAPEST: Banijay International’s Seasons of Life is to receive a local treatment for STB in Ukraine, with five half-hour episodes to air in the fall. The docu-reality format tells the stories of four families as they go through life’s four …

NEW YORK: Denis Leary is developing and co-writing a half-hour pilot adapted from the upcoming Channel 4 comedy Sirens, about a group of young paramedics, for USA Network. Leary is writing the pilot with Bob Fisher (Wedding Crashers, Traffic Light). Both …

PREMIUM: Eglinor Ramaj, the acquisitions manager at DigitAlb, Albania’s leading pay-TV platform, must buy programming for a number of channels, and says she is currently working with a healthy budget to do so. What age groups do you target?   …

PARIS: The documentary Twice, a collaboration of Europe Images International and NHK that spotlights a survivor of both the Hiroshima and Nagasaki atomic bombings, is set to air on France 2. The documentary has been in production from Europe Images …

PREMIUM: Bogdan Czaja, the deputy programming director for Poland’s TVN, tells World Screen that while the channel’s strength lies in local productions, acquisitions are used to fill certain slots. What age groups do you target?   As a general-entertainment channel, …

NAIROBI: MTV Networks Africa has re-upped its partnership with the Staying Alive Foundation, the President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR) and the Partnership for an HIV-Free Generation (HFG) to produce a second season of the drama Shuga in Kenya.  …

SINGAPORE: The Voice, which has been atop the ratings heap on NBC, is to debut in Southeast Asia on AXN, reaching 97 million households. Sony Pictures Television Networks, Asia has picked up the show for AXN to air later in …