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DOHA: Al Jazeera English has been added to the roster of news channels available from Denmark’s YouSee. The channel will initially be available to 1 million households free during March, before joining the YouSee Favorite channel package. The 24-hour news …

PREMIUM: Daytime television formats, branded entertainment and digital extensions are some of the key growth areas in the format business, Kees Abrahams, the president of international production at Sony Pictures Television, tells World Screen. The first Hollywood studio to embrace …

NEW YORK: Time Warner Cable is offering entire seasons of select NBC prime-time shows, including Parks & Recreation and Parenthood, on demand to digital customers. The full-season catch-up for NBC features all of the episodes of the latest seasons of a number …

LONDON: The finals of the Wimbledon tennis championships are going to be filmed in 3D for the first time ever and screened in 3D-capable cinemas around the world, via a deal signed between Sony and The All England Lawn Tennis …

SYDNEY: Beyond Distribution is headed to MIPTV with its recently acquired The Hunks, a six-part series from Back2Back Productions. The reality series features ten physically fit men who spend the summer together attempting to outdo one another while surfing, working …

NEW YORK: Will Arnett and Jason Bateman’s DumbDumb and Ben Silverman’s Electus have teamed up for the new web series Always Open, a celebrity chat show set in the family restaurant Denny’s. The show is an extension of Denny’s latest …

PHILADELPHIA: Comcast Corporation’s Xfinity TV service is now available in Spanish, with a dedicated online portal featuring hundreds of Spanish-language movies and TV shows online, available for free to digital customers. The newly launched XfinityTV.com/latinoTV features more than 500 Hispanic …

BURBANK/TORONTO: John Morris has been named senior VP of TV sales and co-productions for Cookie Jar Entertainment in the U.K., Benelux, Australia and New Zealand. Morris will lead TV sales and presales, planning and forecasting for the region, as well …

TEL AVIV: Denmark’s TV2 has commissioned its own version of Armoza Formats’ Connected, which will be produced locally as a daily series by Strix. This latest deal joins previously announced agreements on Connected from Ukraine’s 1+1, which will produce its …

LOS ANGELES: Following on the success of Keeping Up with the Kardashians, another member of the famed reality-TV family is getting their own show on E!, with a new series focused on Khloé Kardashian and her basketball player husband, Lamar …