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MONTREAL/LOS ANGELES: HOLA Entertainment is offering up the Latin American free-TV rights to 52 half-hour episodes of Productions MAJ’s Discovery Channel Canada series How It’s Made. Known in Spanish as Cómo se hace, the series—which in total consists of 182 half-hour episodes—looks at the …

BURBANK/PARIS: Caroline Lang is now senior VP and managing director for France at Warner Bros. International Television Distribution (WBITD), overseeing the studio’s TV distribution business in the market. Lang, formerly VP and managing director, is responsible for the licensing of television …

NEW YORK: An updated Hawaii Five-0 and a new comedy from Chuck Lorre are among the five new series that will join CBS’s returning 18 shows in the fall lineup, which features four key time period moves—including Survivor‘s shift to …

BRUSSELS: The European Commission has unveiled its Digital Agenda to drive the use of new technologies, with plans to simplify copyright clearance and cross-border licensing and foster investment into high-speed Internet networks. "We must put the interests of Europe’s citizens …

BURBANK: Vanessa Williams, most recently seen on ABC’s axed Ugly Betty, will join season seven of Desperate Housewives this fall as Wisteria Lane’s newest resident. The multi-talented star is currently on Broadway in Sondheim on Sondheim and recently co-starred in …

WASHINGTON, D.C.: National Geographic Channel tonight premieres the first episode of a two-part documentary about offshore commercial oil and gas divers in the Gulf of Mexico. The first episode of Delta Divers airs tonight, with the second part airing next …

SINGAPORE: The Media Development Authority (MDA) issued a statement today clarifying its position on cross-carriage of exclusive content, arguing that there is "no question of content owners’ rights being disregarded." The MDA’s new regulations in the Singaporean pay-TV sector have …

NEW YORK: Oversight for MTV Networks’ Tr3s channel, targeted to U.S. Hispanic viewers, is being taken over by MTV Networks Latin America and its programming slate expanded in its bid to appeal to a "wider spectrum of the Latino audience." Sofia Ioannou, managing …

BEIJING: Pay-TV technology and applications provider NDS says that it is tripling its investment in staff and infrastructure in China this year to meet the strong demand for digital-TV services. Earlier this year, NDS noted that it had upped its headcount …

BANFF: Eric McCormack is set to receive the NBC Universal Canada Award of Distinction at the Banff World Television Awards next month. "Eric is an amazing, talented actor whose hard work and acting skills know no bounds," said Peter Vamos, …