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LONDON: UKTV’s Home channel continues its relationship with Ty Pennington of Extreme Makeover: Home Edition fame through the commission of a fourth series featuring the U.S. star. Tentatively titled Ty Pennington’s Homes for the Brave, the new 5×1-hour series, produced …

LONDON: E1 Entertainment is launching a fully branded entertainment environment, featuring rides, inspired by the Peppa Pig property, to debut in the U.K. from Easter 2011 at Paultons Park in New Forest, Hampshire. Peppa Pig World will offer seven themed …

LONDON: Five and Fiver have picked up the terrestrial and digital TV rights, respectively, for the kids’ series K9 from Park Entertainment. Bob Baker and Dave Martin created the original character of K9 the robot dog for the 1978 Doctor …

HONG KONG: Cartoon Network Enterprises (CNE) has named Ilissa Howard as the director of North and South Asia CNE and Asia Pacific production development. Based in Hong Kong, the newly created post will see Howard take on responsibility for the …

STRASBOURG: The 12 main European broadcasting groups—operating a total of 534 channels—saw their revenues fall just 1.9 percent in 2009, as compared with 3.3 percent in 2008, according to new data from the European Audiovisual Observatory. The Observatory analyzed the …

LOS ANGELES: The four-day LATV Fest, which takes place from July 12 to 15, is to host participants from a cross-section of industries, boasting top-level TV and digital content producers, development executives, agents, advertising and brand executives, software solutions, technology …

LONDON: Starting this month, KidsCo will be aired in Malta and Gozo on the the cable provider Melita’s Digital Medium tier 24 hours a day, seven days a week. The channel will air programming such as The Wiggles, Inspector Gadget, …

WASHINGTON, D.C.: National Geographic Channel has tapped Darlow Smithson Productions to produce three new engineering specials that spotlight Abu Dhabi and Dubai to be featured in its Megastructures strand. The new episodes will be aired as part of Megastructures internationally …

SINGAPORE: The Media Development Authority of Singapore (MDA) is boosting funding for television, film, animation, games, interactive media, publishing and music projects that have international appeal and can roll out on multiple platforms. At its annual Media Business Forum, the …

TORONTO: Canwest Broadcasting has signed a deal with NBC Universal to produce a Canadian version of the hit show Top Chef, teaming up with Insight Productions on the development of the local adaptation. Top Chef is the number one food show …