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NEW YORK: I Just Want My Pants Back is a new half-hour comedy pilot for MTV produced by Universal Cable Productions, marking its first project outside the NBCU family.  I Just Want My Pants Back is based on a novel …

LONDON: The stars of the hit show Hot in Cleveland—Valerie Bertinelli, Jane Leeves and Wendie Malick—will be attending MIPCOM as guests of Endemol Worldwide Distribution.  The show launched in June in the U.S. of TV Land and has become an …

SYDNEY/MUNICH: Granada Australia is to represent all format rights and co-productions of SevenOne International in Australia and New Zealand. The deal covers SevenOne’s slate for formats as well as potential co-productions, within Australia and New Zealand. ITV has produced hits …

LOS ANGELES: MGM Worldwide Television’s new TV version of the hit ‘80s movie Teen Wolf will make its debut with 12 one-hour episodes at MIPCOM. The story follows a young high-school sophomore who has always been slightly socially awkward. After …

BURBANK: Camp Rock 2: The Final Jam garnered 8 million total viewers with its Friday night debut, making it the year’s number one cable movie and TV’s number one movie among kids 6 to 11 and tweens 9 to 14. …

LOS ANGELES: MarVista Entertainment has taken on the global distribution rights for the all-new prime-time mini-series event The Witches of Oz. The two-part adventure fantasy stars Christopher Lloyd and Sean Astin as well as newcomer Sasha Jackson. The story follows …

TORONTO: At this year’s MIP Junior, 9 Story Entertainment is to screen the first five completed episodes of the new kids’ factual series Making Stuff, which is slated to air on TVOntario, TFO and Knowledge Network this fall.  Making Stuff …

 WEST PALM BEACH: AT&T U-verse has struck up two new carriage deals that add to its number of Spanish-language offerings for the U.S. market, one with Olympusat and another with Alterna’TV.  The deal with Olympusat brings TV Chile and its …

 LONDON: Universal Networks International (UNI) has appointed Simon Presswell to the role of senior VP of marketing and digital initiatives, a newly created post that is aimed to support the continued expansion of the company’s international pay-TV channels.  Presswell will …

LONDON: Jonathan Levi, previously the executive producer of the South Bank Show, is to take on the role of head of arts and popular culture at ITV Studios.  Levi most recently created and produced The Parent Trip, featuring George and …