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NEW YORK: Two new appointments have been made within BBC Worldwide’s licensed consumer products division: Carla Peyton and Ian Wickham. Peyton is to become the senior VP of licensed consumer products for BBC Worldwide Americas. Wickham becomes head of retail development …

LOS ANGELES/MILAN: After viewing pilots in Los Angeles, Francesco Mozzetti, the head of acquisitions and sales at Italy’s leading commercial broadcaster, Mediaset, noted, “this was the year of procedurals, after vampires and doctors had monopolized last year’s Screenings.” Mozzetti and …

BANFF: The Banff World Television Festival will present awards in three special achievement categories during a luncheon on June 14, to Temple Street Productions, Panavision and director Louie Psihoyos. Temple Street Productions is being honored with the Lionsgate/Maple Pictures Innovative …

NEW YORK: Hallmark Channel has added a slate of all-new programming from Martha Stewart Living Omnimedia, with an original "how-to" block set to launch exclusively on the cable network this fall. The new programming includes the debut of The Martha …

NEW YORK: Icon Films has been commissioned to produce a third season of River Monsters for Animal Planet, after the second run became the network’s most-watched series in its history. Season two of River Monsters averaged more than 1.5 million …

PARIS: The deals continue to roll in for AB International’s B.F.F. Best Friends Forever, following sales to Disney in Latin America, India, Spain, Germany and Italy. Nickelodeon Benelux and Scandinavia signed up for 74 7-minute episodes and a Christmas special, …

TORONTO: Canadian broadcaster CTV has added a total of 11 series to its 2010/2011 schedule, with seven premiering in the fall—including the new Law & Order spinoff and the Michael Chiklis ABC drama No Ordinary Family—and has also announced the acquisition …

NEW YORK: In time for MIPCOM, World Screen is launching its latest portable directory, the TV Formats Distributors Guide, providing comprehensive information on format-distribution companies and their top titles. TV Formats Distributors Guide is the latest in World Screen‘s series of portable …

SILVER SPRING: Discovery’s HD Theater is to debut the new series Lightscapes on June 21. Lightscapes features the work of Japanese media artist Akira Hasegawa. He uses his unique Digital-Kakejiku (D-K) art form that projects large-scale, abstract-painting-like images onto famous …

LONDON: Sony Pictures Television’s new football documentary How to Win the FIFA World Cup has clinched deals in numerous territories across Europe, Latin America, Asia and Africa. Produced in partnership with Castrol, the doc includes footage from World Cup tournaments …