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LONDON: European broadcasters spent more than £3 billion on acquiring finished content and formats from around the world in 2009, according to Content Economics Research. The research also indicates that the U.K. was the biggest spender, shelling out some £650 million …

LOS ANGELES: Filmmaker Joe Berlinger has joined the WESTDOC conference’s nonfiction keynote conversation, set for September 14.  Berlinger’s most recent documentary, Crude, is the focus of a First Amendment rights case and appeal. Berlinger will address the state of doc production …

NEW YORK/LONDON: Louise Pedersen, managing director of ALL3MEDIA International, discusses the strengths of the company’s slate and its ties with British independent producers in this video interview.   One of the U.K.’s leading independents, ALL3MEDIA International has established a reputation as …

PARIS: Prime Entertainment Group has renewed a package deal with Fox International Channels for the biography series Close Up, alongside further agreements with Ovation, HD NET, SBS and LAPTV.   Close Up features biographies of a roster of Hollywood stars, including Cameron Diaz and …

BUDAPEST: DRG has signed two deals with MTV Russia, which picked up Oxygen’s The Bad Girls Club and Channel 4’s The Inbetweeners.  MTV Russia took on all 82 episodes of The Bad Girls Club, in which seven self-proclaimed "bad girls" …

LONDON: New carriage for Food Network has been secured in the Benelux region and in Cyprus.  The channel launches this week on Telenet’s digital platform in Belgium. This follows the carriage deals with CAIW Media and Glashard Media in the …

LONDON: Darlow Smithson Productions has been tapped to produce a new architecture series for BBC Two, presented by Dan Cruickshank and Charlie Luxton, that reconstructs some of Britain’s most historic buildings. The 6×1-hour series, tentatively titled Rebuilding the Past, tells the …

GLENDALE: The popular Good Luck Troll toy line from Dam Things in Denmark is headed to the big screen in a new feature film from DreamWorks Animation.  The brother-sister writing team of Adam Wilson and Melanie Wilson LaBracio will write …

NEW YORK: The Top 100 U.S. Cable & Satellite Channels guide delivers comprehensive information on the leading entertainment, factual and kids’ networks in the world’s largest television market, including programming and scheduling strategies, available slots and contact information. Whether you’re a …

BUDAPEST: BBC Worldwide has sold two prime-time dramas to TV3 in Russia, along with scoring a deal for more than 120 hours of programming with TBi in Ukraine. TV3 went for the first three seasons of Being Erica and seasons …