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NEW YORK: The number of U.S. mobile subscribers watching video on their mobile devices increased more than 40 percent year-on-year in both the third and fourth quarters of 2010, according to a new report from The Nielsen Company.  This accounted …

LONDON: Endemol’s The Money Drop is headed to Brazil, the Netherlands and Italy, with 17 territories having now signed up for local versions of the game show. Canale 5 in Italy has commissioned the show for prime time. In the …

LOS ANGELES: Lifetime Television has renewed One Born Every Minute for a second season, with ten new hour-long episodes headed to the network. The show takes an in-depth look at life inside the maternity ward at a hospital in Ohio. …

MUNICH: The format slate of SevenOne International features the Dick de Rijk game shows You Deserve It and Money Grabbers. You Deserve It, which is currently piloted for ABC, features contestants playing on behalf of a beneficiary. The contestants potentially …

LONDON: A fourth season of the hit fantasy drama Merlin is set for France, Germany, Australia, Norway and Denmark. The renewals come as production gets under way on season four in Cardiff and France. The show will launch in its …

LONDON: Nic McNeilis, co-developer and executive producer of The Million Pound Drop Live, has been tapped for ITV Studios’ team of entertainment creative directors. McNeilis was previously the executive producer at Endemol. Starting in May, he joins a team at ITV Studios …

MADRID: Two of the stars of the hit RTVE series Love in Difficult Times, Manu Baqueiro (Marcelino) and Itziar Miranda (Manolita), will be on hand in Cannes to help celebrate the show’s six-year success. Airing on La 1 in Spain, …

TORONTO: The addition of former Senator Jerry S. Grafstein to the board of directors at Knightscove Media Corporation is the latest effort in the company’s grand plan to become a family-entertainment powerhouse across a variety of platforms, Leif Bristow, president …

NEW YORK: A total of 11 new original series, accounting for a 20-percent gain in original programming hours, along with five returning hits, have been announced for the Bravo schedule. The additions include a series with Flipping Out‘s Jeff Lewis, …

STOCKHOLM/MONTREAL/ROME/KIEV: Canada’s Trio Orange, Italy’s Amygdala and Ukraine’s Film.UA are the latest additions to Sparks Network’s member companies. From Canada, Trio Orange specializes in content for TV, Internet, film and print. The company is a division of Urbacom, which is …