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CANNES: RDF Rights has sold 100 hours of the series Wife Swap to Discovery Networks UK for its lifestyle channel Discovery Real Time. This is the first time the series will air outside of the Channel 4 bouquet. The show …

CANNES: ITV Studios Global Entertainment and France’s TF1 have agreed to an ongoing movie output deal that includes newly acquired Hollywood TV movies and titles from the Hallmark Hall of Fame collection. The Hallmark Hall of Fame movies are produced …

CANNES: Roadshow Entertainment has shored up the Australian and New Zealand DVD and home entertainment rights to Portfolio Entertainment’s new animated series The Cat in the Hat Knows a Lot About That!, which is slated to broadcast on CITV in the U.K. …

CANNES/LONDON/NEW YORK: MTV Networks International (MTVNI) has signed up a number of new international broadcast partners for the CG animated comedy The Penguins of Madagascar from Nickelodeon and DreamWorks Animation. More than 40 program deals have been closed, including sales …

LORETO/CANNES: Rainbow is launching Winx Club 3D Magical Adventure, its latest feature film in the hit Winx Club franchise, in Cannes this week. In the new 3-D film, Bloom is living happily with her parents in Domino as Princess of …

CANNES: In addition to landing format deals on Reality Hell, Comcast International Media Group (CIMG) has sold a range of titles, totaling more than 270 hours, in Australia, India, Malaysia and Thailand. CIMG’s format deals on E!’s hit series Reality …

LONDON: The Genius of Design, the latest in Wall to Wall’s Genius Of… franchise, has been sold by Outright Distribution in a number of territories, including Scandinavia, where the show was picked up by NRK Norway, SVT Sweden and DR …

PARIS: Cyber Group Studios has inked development deals with Playhouse Disney in Europe, France 5 and Télétoon for three of its new projects, and has added to its catalogue with new distribution deals. The Paris-based animation studio is working with …

CANNES: Janson Media is on the lookout for a co-production partner for a nonfiction “Mr. and Mrs.” spy movie, tentatively titled Meet Me in Cairo. The project is based on a daredevil Israeli spy, Wolfgang Lotz, and his new wife …

CANNES: Chinese broadcaster Tianjin TV is set to launch Metan Development Group’s new celebrity profile series Icons, which will be produced in China at Tianjin’s digital studios. The 52-part series will feature profiles of celebrities from the worlds of film, …