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BURBANK: An additional 12 episodes of the one-hour series Pretty Little Liars have been ordered by ABC Family. The show launched as ABC Family’s number one series debut ever in adults 18 to 34, women 18 to 34, viewers 12 …

PARIS: France 24 has secured a number of new international carriage deals, adding to its current reach of 125 million households in 160 countries. The channel is now available in three languages on the Dartybox platform in France, and is …

LOS ANGELES/TOKYO: A. Smith & Co. Productions and Taiyo Kikaku have teamed up to develop, produce and distribute content for TV, Internet and other media that will target the U.S. and Japan. The two originally partnered on the hit ABC …

TORONTO: Shaftesbury Films has started production on Good Dog, a new half-hour comedy created, written and directed by Ken Finkleman. Finkleman (The Newsroom) also stars in the series alongside Lauren Lee Smith (CSI, The L-Word). Finkleman plays George, a self-absorbed …

SCOTTSDALE: By 2013, one in five new TV sets sold in the U.S. will be 3D, according to In-Stat, with a year-on-year shipment increase of 231 percent in the next year. The number of installed 3D TVs will double between …

HUERTH: Sony Pictures Television’s German production operation has signed up a host of new commissions for scripted and unscripted fare for ZDF, Sat.1, RTL and WDR. SPT Germany is producing Das Comeback (The Comeback), a comedic movie for ZDF, Deutschland’s Meisterkoch …

NEW YORK: Showtime Networks has formally confirmed Imagine Television’s David Nevins’ appointment as president of entertainment, succeeding Robert Greenblatt. Nevins, who will report to Showtime’s chairman and CEO, Matthew C. Blank, has been president of Imagine Television since 2002. In his new …

NEW YORK/LONDON: Bulgarian operator Bulsatcom has added HISTORY to its channel lineup. “HISTORY is the newest entertaining and educational channel added to the portfolio of Bulsatcom,” said Kalin Sredkov, commercial director at the platform. “Our strategy goal is to provide our …

LOS ANGELES: Arthur Schweitzer, who spent several years at Reed MIDEM’s television division, has been named senior consultant and liaison for NATPE 2011, set for January 24 to 26 in Miami. Schweitzer will work to bolster attendance from Europe, working with joins …

TORONTO/LOS ANGELES/LONDON: E1 Entertainment’s new police drama Rookie Blue opened to more than 7.3 million viewers on ABC on Friday night. Simultaneously premiering on Global in Canada, the episode delivered more than 9 million North American viewers, E1 said. It was ABC’s …