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NEW YORK: Strawberry Shortcake’s Berry Bitty Adventures from American Greetings Properties (AGP) is headed into its second season of production and has scored a range of deals across the world. The CGI-animated series, which debuted last fall in the U.S. …

MIAMI: Throughout the first six weeks of the second quarter of this year, Telemundo was the fastest-growing broadcast network with the largest percentage gain in viewers among adults 18 to 49 and 18 to 34, according to Nielsen Media Research. …

LOS ANGELES: CBS and Warner Bros. Television have confirmed that Ashton Kutcher will be joining the cast of Two and a Half Men this fall. Kutcher first came on the scene as Michael Kelso in the comedy That 70’s Show. …

SINGAPORE: Following a successful fourth season, Sony Style TV Magazine is returning to AXN in its fifth run on May 24. The entertainment newsmagazine features the latest Sony gadgets and lifestyle events and places like the Sony Studio 3D Technology Center …

LOS ANGELES: Debmar-Mercury has appointed Darren Doyle and Jim Kramer to senior VPs of sales, with Doyle representing the company on the U.S.’s West Coast and Kramer taking the East Coast. Both Doyle and Kramer were key to launching The Wendy …

LONDON: Zodiak Rights has firmed up a deal with agent Bomanbridge Media that sees the light-entertainment format That’s My Kid being produced for Disney Channel in India. Sol, Zodiak Media Group’s Indian production company, will produce the episodes for Disney …

MADRID: Antonio Banderas’s film company Green Moon, Vértice 360 and Quinta Communications have inked a deal to co-produce and co-finance a slate of movies, including Spanish director Gabe Ibáñez’s Automata. Banderas will co-produce and star in Automata, which explores a futuristic …

NEW YORK: IndiePix Films has picked up the distribution rights for the award-winning documentary Bhopali, which tells the story of the survivors of one of the world’s worst industrial disasters. Directed by Van Maximilian Carlson, the doc looks at the …

TORONTO: A Solutions Research Group (SRG) survey has found that ABC is the top TV brand U.S. consumers must have, narrowly beating CBS, FOX and NBC. According to the fourth edition of the Must Keep TV report, which surveyed 1,400 American …

LONDON: The entertainment formats High Stakes, Holding Out for a Hero and Born to Shine are all to be produced by ITV Studios for ITV1’s prime-time schedule. ITV1 has given the go-ahead for 12 Yard Productions’ Holding Out for a Hero. …