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MUNICH: Beta Film’s children’s label Wunderbox has struck a deal for the whodunit Little Robbers to air on Germany’s KI.KA, which will launch the film in March 2011. A co-production from Studio F.O.R.M.A. and Mini Film, Little Robbers tells the …

LOS ANGELES: Remarkable Content Group has taken on the distribution for two documentary projects from William Shatner: The Captains and William Shatner’s Gonzo Ballet. Television distribution has already been secured in the U.S. and Canada, and Remarkable Content Group is …

SYDNEY/LONDON/WARSAW: The international MTVNHD service is extending its distribution, with a launch in Australia and new deals in Germany, Sweden, Norway, Finland and Denmark. The channel becomes available in Australia on November 1 on Foxtel, reaching some 250,000 HD households. …

SAN DIEGO: Televix Entertainment has been appointed by the Latin American Multimedia Corporation as the worldwide television distribution agent for the bilingual preschool series Dos y Dos. The live-action series is recorded in Spanish and serves to teach English to …

HYDERABAD: DQ Entertainment has signed a broadcast deal with Noga Communications for its series The New Adventures of Peter Pan to air in Israel. Noga’s bouquet includes The Children Channel, Channel 8 and Logi Channel. Noga has now picked up …

LONDON: The BBC has reached a settlement with the government that freezes its license fee at the current rate of £145.50 until 2016/17—representing a budget reduction in real terms of some 16 percent, reports indicate. Announcing the settlement, Sir Michael …

NEW YORK: Jene Elzie, the VP of international sales and strategic planning at CIMG, talks in this video interview about positioning the company as a player in the format market, and also discusses the windowing strategy CIMG employs worldwide, balancing …

MEXICO CITY: RCN and Televisa have renewed their strategic partnership and have committed to jointly developing original stories for the international market. With the deal, RCN’s channels in Colombia continue to have exclusive access to Televisa’s original programs, while Televisa …

CYBERJAYA: The Multimedia Development Corporation (MDeC), National Film Development Corporation of Malaysia (FINAS) and Malaysian Communications and Multimedia Commission (SKMM) are hailing the success of their most recent MIPCOM outing, with several local firms inking new production and distribution deals. Funcel, …

HYDERABAD: Discovery Channel in now available in four languages in India, with a Telugu-language feed, for viewers in Andhra Pradesh, adding to existing feeds in English, Hindi and Tamil. In Asia-Pacific alone, Discovery Channel is broadcast in 11 different languages. …