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LOS ANGELES: More than 100 hours of reality programming from the catalogue of Rive Gauche Television have been licensed to international broadcasters. The deals include Pitbulls and Parolees, which has been picked up by Discovery Latin America and UBC in …

NEW YORK: Nickelodeon, as part of its commitment to encouraging active, healthy lifestyles for children, is again turning off its TV channels and websites during its Worldwide Day of Play, on September 25. This is the seventh straight year that …

LOS ANGELES: Playboy TV International has signed an exclusive deal with Chunghwa Telecom MOD to launch Playboy TV and Playboy HD VOD programming in Taiwan. The Playboy TV channel will air commercial free in English with Chinese subtitled characters starting …

OTTAWA: Rob the Robot, co-produced by Amberwood Entertainment and Singapore’s ONE Animation, has been renewed for a second season of 52 episodes by Canada’s TVO and SRC. The first season of 52 11-minute episodes will air weekdays at 8:30 a.m. and …

MIAMI: Telemundo Internacional’s telenovela The Clone has secured a 5 p.m. time slot on TVE in Spain. The telenovela debuts today in Spain. It stars Sandra Echeverria and Mauricio Ochmann. The Clone is currently airing in a number of other …

Ricky Gervais and Stephen Merchant were complete nobodies when they walked into the BBC and pitched their idea for a mock documentary about a workplace. The Office premiered in July of 2001 and is considered one of the most perfectly …

TORONTO: W!LDBRAIN Entertainment, the L.A.-based outfit behind The Ricky Gervais Show and Yo Gabba Gabba!, has been acquired by DHX Media. The deal combines DHX Media’s production capabilities and international broadcast relationships with W!LDBRAIN’s in-house creative team and relationships with …

After reaching extraordinary levels of success at Endemol, a company he founded with Joop van den Ende and other investors in 1994, John de Mol found himself in an executive position he didn’t quite cherish. In his heart he is …

HYDERABAD: DQ Entertainment has entered into an exclusive home-video distribution deal for the 3D series Iron Man: Armored Adventures season one with TIGA Entertainment of Thailand. TIGA now holds the home-video rights for the first season of the animated series …

LOS ANGELES/TORONTO: Entertainment One (eOne) has picked up distribution outside of the U.S. and Canada for the Spike TV comedic reality series Scrappers. The show looks at the ultra-competitive world of Brooklyn scrap-metal workers. Scrappers premiered this summer on Spike …