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STOCKHOLM/HONG KONG: Gary Pudney is to head up Sparks Network Asia, tasked with expanding the company’s membership base throughout the region. Pudney will support current members in the Asia Pacific as well. He will be scouting for third-party properties, along …

SILVER SPRING: The town of Parshall, North Dakota, takes center stage in the new Planet Green docu-series Boomtown, which tells the story of the small community’s struggle with a sudden oil boom. The case study looks at how the domestic …

NEW YORK: Universal Cable Productions is to produce an 11-episode original scripted series for Syfy, tentatively titled Alphas, with BermanBraun Television. The action-adventure series comes from writers Zak Penn (X-Men: The Last Stand, The Avengers, The Incredible Hulk) and Michael Karnow. …

PREMIUM: While a number of territories across the Asia Pacific have become adept at creating their own formats, there’s still a healthy appetite in the region for licensing international concepts. Signs of health abound in the television markets across the …

LOS ANGELES: With still seven weeks till the NATPE Market and Conference, registration numbers are giving organizers reason to believe that the move to Miami is breathing new life into the event, which will be held January 24 to 26.  …

TORONTO: Two new one-hour original pilots, Saving Hope and Stay with Me, have been ordered by CTV, which also gave a pickup to the drama series Highland Gardens. Saving Hope is a fast-paced drama set in a Toronto hospital that …

SINGAPORE: Through an extended license agreement between Disney Media Distribution and Radio Televisyen Malaysia (RTM), a range of Disney animated content is set for broadcast on the free-to-air channels TV1 and TV2 in Malaysia. The deal covers hit box-office movies …

MUNICH: The TV adaptation of Ken Follett’s international bestseller The Pillars of the Earth is making its way to a number of Asian territories, with Tandem Communications scoring deals with NHK and KBS, among others. In Japan, NHK is set to …

STUDIO CITY: Crown Media Holdings, which owns and operates Hallmark Channel and Hallmark Movie Channel, has sealed a multi-year renewal agreement with the National Cable Television Cooperative (NCTC) that keeps the networks available to the 1,000 member companies. Among the …

SINGAPORE: Taiwan’s Public Television Service (TPS) has picked up the Globo TV International production Recycling: Ticket to the Future, which is part of the GloboDOC strand. The documentary is about recycling, showing how Brazil is pioneering diverse processes of reusing …