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NEW YORK: Anna Carugati, the group editorial director of World Screen, will be interviewing Jon Feltheimer, the co-chairman and CEO of Lionsgate, and MIPCOM 2010 Personality of the Year, following his keynote address at MIPCOM on Tuesday, October 5. During …

SINGAPORE/LONDON: The Singaporean outfit August Media has expanded its business lines with the acquisition of the U.K.-based children’s producer Red Kite Animation. August has been actively seeking out inorganic growth opportunities through the acquisition of existing businesses to give the …

NEW YORK: TV Kids, a partner of MIP Junior this year, looks at some of the highlights of this year’s two-day conference and screenings event. With all signs pointing to a recovery in the kids’ business after the woes of …

LONDON: Jay Hunt is joining Channel 4 in early 2011 as its chief creative officer (CCO) and executive member of the broadcaster’s board. This newly created role combines all programming functions with multiplatform commissioning and product development for the first …

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 …

LOS ANGELES: Sarah Ferguson, the Duchess of York, is the focus of a new six-part docu-series on OWN: The Oprah Winfrey Network called Finding Sarah. Produced by World of Wonder, the series is scheduled for the first quarter of 2011 …

STRASBOURG: A new study from the European Audiovisual Observatory indicates that revenues at European’s main commercial broadcasting groups are back to pre-recession levels, with a 10-percent growth rate in the first half. The 12 largest private television groups in Europe …

LAUSANNE: Grupo Albavision has reached a deal with the International Olympic Committee (IOC) for the free-TV rights to the London 2012 Olympic Games in ten Latin American countries. Albavision has secured the broadcast rights for Bolivia, Costa Rica, the Dominican …

LONDON: Universal Networks International (UNI) is to co-finance a new paranormal reality series, Fact or Faked: Paranormal Files, which will roll out across Syfy Universal international channels in the coming weeks. The is the first time UNI is co-funding a non-fiction …