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CANNES: CABLEready has added two industry veterans to its team, David Fox and Peter De Jong, as part of a new global expansion strategy.  Fox, the CEO of David Fox Associates, will be setting up a joint venture with CABLEready …

DOHA: Roch Pellerin has been named as the new head of global distribution at Al Jazeera, tasked with overseeing international expansion efforts.  Pellerin will be based at Al Jazeera’s Doha, Qatar, headquarters. He will report directly to Al Anstey, the …

STOCKHOLM: Catherine Wiernik is the new head of format acquisitions at TV4 in Sweden, where her focus will be on finding and adapting new major international formats for the group.  Wiernik will be responsible for dealing with international format distribution and …

LONDON/CANNES: Along with scoring a second season for its original series Boo & Me, KidsCo has added a number of new titles to its slate, in a deal with CCI Entertainment.  The second season of Boo & Me, done in …

CANNES: Warner Bros. International Television Distribution (WBITD) has entered into a multi-year pact that grants the free-TV and basic-cable rights for a raft of programming to an exclusive broadcaster in Scandinavia, TV4 Group.  Marking the first time WBITD has signed a pan-regional …

CANNES: Breakthrough Entertainment is to co-produce a string of made-for-TV mystery movies, to star Kelly Rowan, with Salient Point Productions and Colossal Entertainment.  Rowan (The O.C., Flashpoint) will portray Rebecca Kane, assistant to the chief of police in a depressing …

CANNES: Fox International Channels (FIC) has picked up the exclusive rights to Vuguru’s multiplatform thriller The Booth at the End from Fireworks International.  FIC went for the broadcast, mobile and download-to-own rights for all versions of The Booth at the …

CANNES: NHK/NHK Educational Corporation and Al Jazeera Children’s Channel have secured Germany’s SWR, UR of Sweden and Korea’s EBS as co-producers for Discover Science, which is to air on Astro in Malaysia and Brunei.  The sciencetainment series offers explanations of …

CANNES: FremantleMedia has picked up a 60-percent interest in @radical.media, a transmedia outfit specializing in advertising and branded-entertainment content. The move marks FremantleMedia’s first major move into the branded-entertainment space, as the company looks to diversify its revenue sources. With …

CANNES: FremantleMedia has a raft of new formats to offer the international market, including Total Blackout, the first title to come out of its creative exchange alliance with Japanese broadcaster Fuji Television Network. FremantleMedia and Fuji announced their creative pact …