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  NEW YORK: TV Kids’ special video report features interviews with Nickelodeon’s Cyma Zarghami, Disney EMEA’s Orion Ross, KI.KA’s Sebastian Debertin, Sprout’s Andrew Beecham and Australian Broadcasting Corporation’s Tim Brooke-Hunt.  brightcove.createExperiences(); This video, entitled Learning to Share, is a special report from …

LONDON: The TV Land sitcom Retired at 35 has been picked up for prime time by a number of broadcasters through deals signed by DRG, which is launching a new comedy at MIPTV and has wrapped up a range of …

SYDNEY: The Australian Children’s Television Foundation (ACTF) is set to launch its new animation series Flea-Bitten at MIPTV. The half-hour cartoon comedy, featuring a dog and a flea as a pair of unlikely friends who have escaped from the pound, …

NEW YORK: Crown Media Networks, the new umbrella brand for Hallmark Channel and Hallmark Movie Channel, unveiled its 2011-12 slate to advertisers this week, with a roster of new TV movies plus several series, including one hosted by Maya Angelou. Hallmark Channel …

VIENNA: Beatrice Riesenfelder and Franz Prenner are to work alongside each other within ORF’s commercial arm, ORF-Enterprise, while Andrew Solomon leads the natural-history and science department, Universum, and Berend Dreier and Marion Camus Oberdorfer split sales duties. Riesenfelder has taken …

NEW YORK: A multiplatform block of branded original content tapping into the assets of Warner Bros. and DC Entertainment was among the new programming highlights announced by Cartoon Network at its annual upfront presentation. In all, the network unveiled 13 new animated series, …

NEW YORK: Logo has acquired the five-season series Absolutely Fabulous and will kick off the premiere with a week-long marathon beginning April 16 at 2 p.m. Absolutely Fabulous, which will move to its permanent time slot with episodes airing on …

LONDON: MTV Networks International (MTVNI) has firmed up deals on its TV movies Gym Teacher and Spectacular! ahead of MIPTV, where the company will present three new telefilms for international syndication. Gym Teacher and Spectacular! both sold to Vrak TV in Canada. …

STOCKHOLM: Warner Bros. has been appointed to handle the distribution for DVD and Blu-ray releases of NonStop Entertainment’s titles for the Nordic market. Warner Bros. is now responsible for the distribution of titles such as Let Me In, Matt Reeves’ …

TORONTO: CTV has acquired the rights to The Voice, the new format-based talent show that John de Mol and Mark Burnett are exec-producing for NBC. The show, based on Talpa’s The Voice of Holland series, will be hosted by Carson Daly …