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TORONTO: Sony Pictures Television has licensed the new CBS midseason comedy Mad Love to CTV for launch February 14. The Canadian broadcaster will simulcast Mad Love with CBS on Valentine’s Day at 8:30 p.m. The series, about a twenty-something couple in love and …

HONG KONG: An investor group led by entrepreneur Charles Chan Kwok Keung that includes Providence Equity Partners has acquired Shaw Brothers’ 26-percent stake in TVB for an undisclosed sum. Chan, chairman of ITC Corp., and Providence are joined in the investor group by …

HONG KONG: Turner Broadcasting System International is teaming up with TNT to bring the highly anticipated Steven Spielberg series Falling Skies, which debuts in June, to the international market.    From DreamWorks Television, Falling Skies stars Noah Wyle (ER), along with …

SINGAPORE: Singaporean broadcasting group MediaCorp is set to introduce a new multiplatform service in the second half of the year that will deliver content and services over a broadband connection to the TV set, computers, tablets and mobile phones. The service …

LONDON: Syfy in the U.K. has entered into a deal for the exclusive broadcast rights to the British Association of Mixed Martial Arts (BAMMA), marking the channel’s foray into live event programming.  Syfy picked up the U.K. broadcast rights to …

PHILADELPHIA: Comcast is launching a new service in partnership with the National Center for Missing & Exploited Children (NCMEC) delivering information about missing children in the U.S. Missing Kids On Demand and online (at xfinity.com/news/missingkids) is intended to enable Comcast …

LONDON: Zodiak Rights continues to notch up deals on the format Wife Swap, with Sony’s SET channel in India and CTC Network in Russia as the latest broadcasters to adapt the show.  UTV in India will produce a minimum run …

LONDON: Mediaset Italia, the European conglomerate’s international Italian-language channel, will be represented across EMEA and Asia by Chello Zone. The service, targeting Italian expats, broadcasts general entertainment, news, drama, sitcoms and other library content. “We are very happy to have come …

NEW YORK: Syfy.com is to debut its newest original web series, The Mercury Men, early this year, following the successful performance of the digital program Riese: Kingdom Falling. Riese: Kingdom Falling, narrated by Sanctuary‘s Amanda Tapping, premiered on Syfy.com on …

DUBLIN: New forecasts indicate that the number of global IPTV subscribers will grow from 44 million at the end of 2010 to 111.5 million in 2014. This represents a compound annual growth rate of 26 percent. The global service revenue …