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LONDON: The original TV Land sitcoms Happily Divorced and The Exes (working title) are to be represented by Endemol Worldwide Distribution following on the successful partnership the two have with the hit comedy Hot in Cleveland.  Happily Married stars Fran …

NEW YORK: The Hub has picked up an additional 13 episodes of the CGI animated series Strawberry Shortcake’s Berry Bitty Adventures for a second set to debut this fall. The series debuted last fall on The Hub and ranked number …

PHILADELPHIA: In the run-up to the royal wedding of Prince William and Kate Middleton, Comcast is providing customers with a range of content on demand and online at XfinityTV.com that focuses on the upcoming nuptials. Comcast customers throughout the month …

MODENA: The Licensing Machine (TLM), the licensing and media division of the Panini Group, is heading to Cannes with a range of children’s titles that "are not competing with each other and can fill the complete range of time slots …

ATHENS: Among the recipients of Peabody Awards at the 70th annual event, honoring the best in electronic media, were HBO’s The Pacific and TNT’s Men of a Certain Age. Also scoring Peabody wins were Reel Injun: On the Trail of …

SÃO PAULO: Globo TV International has nine new titles within its GloboDOC franchise to launch in Cannes.  Among the highlights are Invisible Blanket, produced in HD. The doc shows the damage caused the the Greenhouse Effect. There’s also Brazil 2014: …

STOCKHOLM: Collaboration Inc. and TV Tokyo have aligned for the fast-turnaround doc SOS Japan: Voices from the Destruction, which has already been picked up from Sparks Network by SVT in Sweden.  The documentary features the first-hand accounts from some of …

MIAMI: Univision Communications has named Jessica Rodriguez as the senior VP for Univision Cable Networks, where she will oversee the company’s expanding portfolio.  Based in Miami, Rodriguez will report to Cesar Conde, the president of Univision Networks. She has been …

TORONTO/CANNES: Shaftesbury Sales Company has firmed up deals for the TV movie Vacation with Derek with a number of international broadcasters, including Disney in territories such as Germany, Italy and Latin America.  The 90-minute made-for-TV movie is the follow up …

TORONTO: The long-running home-renovation series This Old House is now part of the catalogue of CCI Releasing, marking the first time the show is available to the international market.  The PBS prime-time classic has more than 200 episodes to offer. …