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SYDNEY: The live-action drama series My Place, which comes from Australian Children’s Television Foundation, has been picked up by a range of broadcasters, including ABC TV in Australia and RTP in Portugal. The show is based on a classic Australian …

NEW YORK: Coinciding with the 150th anniversary of the U.S. Civil War, HISTORY has lined up a week-long programming event, which kicks off with the two-hour feature Gettysburg. Executive produced by Tony and Ridley Scott, Gettysburg looks to present the …

WESTON: Florida-based distributor World Media Pictures, led by former Dori Media and RCTV Internacional executive Juan Antonio Fernández, will be at the L.A. Screenings with a slate of novelas, light entertainment, documentaries and more. The novelas on offer next week …

SAN FRANCISCO: The Women and Girls Lead campaign is a new public media initiative from the Independent Television Service (ITVS) that uses independent documentary films to tell stories that support female leadership and development. The initiative from ITVS is being …

ROCKVILLE: TeleGraff Media has secured a range of deals on behalf of its clients Marc Pingry HD Productions, Partners in Motion and Quester. Marc Pingry’s hour-long Dragon Boat Carnival was picked up by Velocity, the channel that replaced HD Theater; …

DUNEDIN: NHNZ’s Moving Images is to serve as the footage sales agent for National Geographic Channels Worldwide, which has a library of blue-chip factual programming that dates back 20 years and includes hundreds of hours of HD content. The deal …

NEW YORK: Andrew Beecham, the senior VP of programming for Sprout, talks about his overall programming strategy and offers advice to those wishing to pitch to the channel.   In September, Sprout launched Noodle and Doodle, its first long-form original …

SAN BRUNO: A selection of feature-film releases from Sony, Warner Bros. and Universal are available for online rental on YouTube, including recent blockbuster hits such as Despicable Me, The King’s Speech and Inception. The online video site’s expansion into movie rentals …

ARLINGTON: PBS has lined up a new slate of fall programming that includes Ken Burns’ and Lynn Novick’s Prohibition, along with Brian Greene‘s The Fabric of the Cosmos from Nova. This fall will also mark the first-ever PBS Arts Fall …

MILANO: Giochi Preziosi Group has scored a toy distribution deal with NewBoy to represent Scan2Go, a car-racing toy based on an animated series targeting 4- to 12-year-old boys, for Western Europe. Scan2Go toy cars use technology that allows kids to …