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COLOGNE: Among the shows added to Super RTL’s 2011 lineup is the hit U.S. series Glee, to be featured in the channel’s revamped prime-time grid. At a special presentation in Cologne-Deutz, Claude Schmit, Super RTL’s managing director, and Carsten Göttel, …

LOS ANGELES: No Brainer Films is a new specialty production company from actor, writer and producer Jamie Foxx and writer, director and producer Deon Taylor that will focus on film and TV projects. Foxx and Taylor will develop, finance, write, …

STAMFORD: ESPN has sublicensed the multimedia rights to select matches of England’s Barclays Premier League through a three-year deal with Fox Sports International. Covering the 2010-11 through 2012-13 seasons, the deal includes up to 74 live matches each season on …

LONDON: Following its rebrand earlier this year, Bravo in the U.K. has ramped up its original programming, with its latest addition, Kung Fu Street Fighters (working title), commissioned from Optomen Television. The 6×1-hour factual entertainment series has taken more than …

CARLSBAD: The action sports company TransWorld Media has teamed up with Apparent Gravity Media on its first TV series, TransWorld Sessions. The series, 26×30 min., will feature some of the most popular action sports, including freestyle motocross, skate, snowboarding, BMX …

MEXICO CITY/LOS ANGELES: Lawless Entertainment has been appointed as the licensing agent for international formatting of TV Azteca’s What Us Women Keep Quiet About (Lo Que Callamos Las Mujeres). Lawless will represent the show for formatting in the U.K., France, …

LONDON: ALL3MEDIA has finalized a deal to acquire Optomen, along with its U.S. production arm, Optomen Productions, and its joint-venture subsidiary with Gordon Ramsay, One Potato Two. Optomen’s catalogue includes Great British Menu, Mary, Queen of Shops and What To …

LONDON: The German cable-TV operator Pepcom has been sold by private equity investors GMT Communications and Veronis Suhler Stevenson (VSS) to STAR Capital Partners. Pepcom has more than 630,000 subscribers of video, broadband and voice services. GMT and VSS held …

CALGARY: Canada’s Competition Bureau has given the greenlight to Shaw Communications’ acquisition of Canwest Global’s free-to-air and specialty television businesses. The regulator has ruled that the deal is "not likely give rise to a substantial lessening or prevention of competition …

NEW YORK: Nick Cannon has extended his deal with Nickelodeon to serve as chairman of TeenNick through January 2012. Cannon, who has been in the role since March 2009, continues his on- and off-air responsibilities at the 24-hour tween- and …