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TORONTO: Canamedia is headed to MIPTV with a slate of more than 100 hours of factual and lifestyle programming, including ten newly acquired titles. Canamedia is set to launch the 13×30-minute investigative series The Conspiracy Show, which features interviews with …

NEW YORK: In this video interview, RTL Group’s CEO, Gerhard Zeiler, talks to World Screen about his family of channels, how advertisers can be utilizing multiple platforms and what makes for good television.  

NEW DELHI: The media and entertainment business in India is poised for a 13-percent boost in 2011 to reach 738 billion rupees ($16.5 billion), rising to 1,275 billion rupees ($28.5 billion) by 2015, according to a report from FICCI-KPMG. The report …

TORONTO: GlassBOX Television has named Marcia Martin as the senior VP of creative content for commissioned and in-house programming. In the newly created position, Martin will work with in-house and independent producers, overseeing all aspects of original content, including development, …

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 …