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TORONTO/LOS ANGELES/LONDON: SPE Networks Latin America has licensed the Jason Priestley comedy Call Me Fitz from Entertainment One. “We are thrilled that Fitz has found a home on SPE Networks Latin America,” said Valerie Cabrera, executive VP of eOne Television International. …

SANTA MONICA: Endemol USA-owned 51 Minds Entertainment is producing Money Hungry, a new competitive weight-loss series, for VH1, for premiere in August. The weight-loss show with a comedic twist puts $10,000 of the contestants’ own money on the line to encourage …

LONDON: Ad-supported free movie site Indiemoviesonline.com, has inked a deal to deliver films from Lionsgate UK, beginning with an initial slate of nine titles. Titles included in the first slate are the horror features The Mummy, Halloween II and Tale …

LONDON: More than 400 half-hours of Nickelodeon content have been licensed to broadcasters in Kazakhstan, Albania and Slovenia by MTV Networks International. KTK, Kazakhstan’s leading free-to-air broadcaster, has licensed 263 half-hour episodes of SpongeBob SquarePants, The Penguins of Madagascar, Danny Phantom …

LONDON: Five’s digital channel FIVER has commissioned a new dating show, Love Bus, from Carbon Media, to be hosted by Zoe Salmon. The 10×30-minute show launches on FIVER this fall. Each week, Salmon will board a bus and pick up one …

MIAMI: Telemundo Internacional’s Beautiful, but Unlucky will launch in Lithuania tomorrow on LNK in a daytime slot. The novela starring Danna García and Segundo Cernadas has already rolled out in Spain, on TVE, as well as a host of Latin …

LONDON/ROME: Lorenzo Mieli has been tapped to lead FremantleMedia’s Italian operations as managing director. In his post at FremantleMedia Italia, Mieli reports to Monica Galer, FremantleMedia’s head of Northern and Southern Europe. He will lead FremantleMedia’s production operations and business …

LONDON: Channel 4’s rights-exploitation division has entered into a development deal with Kinetic Content, the U.S. production outfit established by former RDF USA chief Chris Coelen. 4Rights will have an exclusive first option to pick up all U.K. rights to scripted …

LOS ANGELES: Sergio Romero is joining U.S. Hispanic broadcaster Azteca America as programming manager, effective immediately.   In his new role, Romero reports to Alberto Santini Lara, the executive VP of programming, production and marketing at Azteca America. He began his television …

BRUSSELS: The funding mechanisms put in place by France Télévisions and Spain’s RTVE comply with state aid rules, the European Commission has said. France Télévisions receives a share of the revenue from the public-service broadcasting contribution, plus a subsidy from the …