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HONG KONG: Following its April launch on StarHub in Singapore, Turner Broadcasting’s truTV is set to roll out in the Philippines and Vietnam next month. In the Philippines, Turner Entertainment has appointed Asian Cable Communications Inc (ACCION) as the truTV distributor to …

BANFF: Family Channel and Playhouse Disney Canada have commissioned further episodes of two Canadian original productions, the live-action comedy Wingin’ It and the animated series Stella and Sam. Family Channel has ordered a second season of Wingin’ It from Temple …

BANFF: Globo TV International is on hand at the Banff World Television Festival with its complete portfolio of programming, highlighted by a lineup of documentaries that were created specifically for the international market. The first and second seasons of the …

BURBANK: Maura Tierney (ER) has joined the cast of The Whole Truth, a new drama for ABC from Jerry Bruckheimer Television, as a series regular. The show debuts this fall on ABC, airing in a Wednesday 10 p.m. time slot. …

LOS ANGELES: The Jim Henson Company has wrapped up a range of broadcast and home-entertainment agreements for the hit animated preschool series Dinosaur Train. The terrestrial TV rights for Dinosaur Train were licensed to France 5, SVT in Sweden, YLE …

MANCHESTER: Impossible Kids, the children’s TV arm of Impossible Pictures, has started production on the new preschool series Buzz & Tell for CBeebies in the U.K. and BBC Worldwide’s international CBeebies channels. The 52×5-minute series is a quiz show that features …

NEW YORK: Caroline Tyre, the director of programming at TELETOON, talks in this video interview about her scheduling strategies and explains what makes a show a good fit for the network.   Canada’s TELETOON puts a high premium on comedy, …

NEW YORK: Consumers worldwide will continue to spend on TV subscriptions, reports PricewaterhouseCoopers in its latest five-year outlook, forecasting a 7.5 percent compound annual growth rate in television subscription revenues to reach $210.8 billion by 2014. PwC notes that TV …

BANFF: Distribution360, co-founded by Canada’s marblemedia and SEVEN24 Films, is a new company in the multiplaform entertainment distribution arena, focusing on children’s, youth, drama and factual programming. Distribution360 is focused on traditional and emerging platforms, with programming for distribution to …

SILVER SPRING: Wonya Lucas has been named executive VP and chief operating officer for Discovery Channel and Discovery Science, succeeding Tom Cosgrove, who has been appointed to lead the new Discovery, Sony and IMAX 3-D network. Lucas will head up …