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NEW YORK: In this video interview, Kay Benbow, the recently appointed controller of CBeebies, discusses the global potential of the new music-based property ZingZillas and how the show complements the preschool channel’s overall lineup, which she now oversees.   Earlier …

LOS ANGELES: Playboy founder Hugh Hefner is to receive the PromaxDBA Lifetime Achievement Award at the 2010 conference, which takes place June 22 to 24 in Los Angeles. In a session that will take place on June 24 at 1 …

ATLANTA: TNT has ordered 10 episodes for a third season of Southland from Warner Bros Television and producer John Wells for a January 2011 debut. The critically acclaimed series ran for one season on NBC, was renewed and then canned before the …

NEW YORK: United Features Syndicate (UFS) and The E.W. Scripps Company have reached a deal to sell the Peanuts brand and related assets to Iconix Brand Group and the family of creator Charles Schulz for $175 million. As part of the deal, …

BURBANK: The music-based live-action comedy series I’m In the Band has been given a second-season order by Disney XD. The series is about a teenager who gets to live out his wildest dream when he joins his favorite "vintage" rock …

LONDON: Fox International Channels (FIC) Europe has hired Åse Ytreland as the new managing director for the Nordic and Baltic regions, where she will manage the company’s activities in Denmark, Norway, Sweden, Finland, Iceland, Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania. Ytreland will …

LONDON: Endemol Worldwide Distribution has picked up three new factual series from Sirens Media, all of which were commissioned by Discovery’s ID network. Who the Bleep Did I Marry? is a 12×30-minute series about men and women who thought they were …

LONDON: A raft of feature films and TV movies from Eagle Pictures, covering genres such as horror and science fiction, are to begin airing from early May in Italy on Chello Zone’s Fantasy channel. The deal features 22 films, including …

LONDON: A number of deals have been signed by National Geographic Television International (NGTI) with broadcasters in Asia, including KBS in Korea and RTM of Malaysia. KBS went for the blue-chip wildlife show Dam Beavers, Freaks of the Sea from …

NEW YORK/LONDON: AETN UK has launched HISTORY on Romanian cable operators Telemach and DCS. Telemach launched the channel on March 1, while DCS followed on April 1. The channel is fully localized in Romanian and features programming across historical genres …