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LOS ANGELES: A number of DVD and licensing deals are in place across Latin America for Toei Animation’s Dragon Ball Z and Saint Seiya. For Dragon Ball Z, Chenson in Mexico is on board for backpacks, while Superbrands of Brazil …

PARIS: A fifth season of Moonscoop’s hit show Code Lyoko is in the works, this time with a live-action and 3D version. France Television and Canal J are co-production partners on the fifth season, which will feature 26 half-hour episodes. …

MUNICH: m4e has firmed up additional broadcast and licensing deals for the series Mia and Me, slated for launch in spring 2012. The live-action/CGI animation series is from Lucky Punch (a joint venture between m4e AG and Gerd Hahn) in …

SHERMAN OAKS: Leeza Gibbons is to join Bill Rancic as co-host for America Now, a daily news program from Raycom Media and ITV Studios America. The show launches as a daily first-run series starting this fall. America Now has been …

SILVER SPRING: Investigation Discovery’s I Married a Mobster looks at the reality of New York mafia families who have been embroiled in the world of organized crime. The show sits down with the women and family members who have experienced …

BOGOTÁ: RCN Television is heading to DISCOP with a lineup of hit Colombian series like El Joe and telenovelas such as Doña Bella. RCN will be in Hungary this month with El Joe, la leyanda, about the life of Caribbean music …

TORONTO: CBC’s fall schedule includes Camelot and two new Canadian comedies, plus the recently announced Cover Me Canada, which will air as part of a reality TV block on Sunday nights. The new Canadian comedies are Michael: Tuesdays & Thursdays and Mr. …

LONDON: BBC Magazines and Spellbound Entertainment have entered into an agreement that sees a preschool magazine app created for The Koala Brothers. The app will feature the Koala Brothers characters worked into the context of the editorial of BBC Pre-School …

LOS ANGELES: Former Universal Networks International chief Roma Khanna is joining MGM as the president of its television group and digital, reporting to co-chairman and CEOs Gary Barber and Roger Birnbaum. Formerly president of Universal Networks International & Digital Initiatives at …

ROME: Switchover Licensing is the newly established in-house licensing, franchise management and brand marketing unit of Italian broadcaster Switchover Media. Switchover Media owns the kids’ free-to-air channels K2 and Frisbee. Switchover Licensing will then be developing licensing, sponsorship and brand …