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LONDON: Outright Distribution has signed a two-year exclusive first-look agreement with indie producer Trilby Films, which specializes in documentaries, factual entertainment and comedic drama. The deal is for all newly commissioned product, with Outright securing ten-year distribution rights for shows. …

LONDON: Channel 4, Discovery UK and Smithsonian Channel have commissioned a 90-minute documentary from Darlow Smithson Productions that will tell the story of the world’s first and last supersonic passenger jet. Tentatively titled Concorde: The Supersonic Age, the film will …

NEW YORK/LONDON: AETN UK has launched the Crime & Investigation Network (CI) and HISTORY on Serbian cable operator IKOM. HISTORY launched with a fully localized version in Serbian on May 1. CI will be fully localized in the coming months. …

VANCOUVER: The Canadian animation studio Rainmaker Entertainment has a number of original projects in development, among them the theatrical movie Ogo and the series of holiday specials Country Bunny and the Little Gold Shoes. Ogo is centered on a Canadian …

LONDON: UKTV’s Good Food is working with TalkbackTHAMES and Ronnie Corbett on an exclusive commission tentatively titled Ronnie Corbett’s Supper Club. The hour-long pilot episode will see Corbett delve into the food memories and life of Gavin and Stacey‘s Rob …

MAINZ: ZDF Enterprises Group has appointed Christian Massmann and Thomas Sewing to lead a new digital production initiative. As managing directors of ZDF Digital Medianproduktion, Massmann and Sewing will jointly focus on digital and interactive production and distribution.  Massmann was …

NEW YORK: TNT and TBS held a joint presentation to unveil the new programming headed to the channels for 2010-11, with TNT announcing the debut of the new Steven Spielberg series Fallen Skies and TBS readying for the launch of …

AUSTIN: Joan Ganz Cooney, the creator of the long-running kids’ series Sesame Street, was honored by PBS and its member stations for her work in using media to educate children. Cooney was presented with the PBS Be More Award, which recognizes …

SCOTTSDALE: A little more than 50 percent of all pay-TV subscribers are in Asia as of this year, according to In-Stat, with China alone encompassing 26.3 percent. The rest of the Asia-Pacific holds 22.3 percent of the pie, according to the …

SINGAPORE: AXN HD will be made available in Singapore starting May 25, becoming the first English-language general-entertainment channel to be broadcast in high definition on StarHub. Shows set to air on the HD network include NCIS: Los Angeles, the CSI …