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LOS ANGELES: MarVista Entertainment and Gaiam Entertainment have signed a deal to distribute Before You Say I Do, Chatterbox and Cop Dog for the U.S. home-entertainment market. "MarVista is always seeking new partnership opportunities to expand our penetration in the …

DUNEDIN: Production house NHNZ is setting up a production office in Abu Dhabi in the United Arab Emirates, where it will manage Middle East-specific productions. NHNZ—which already has offices in Washington D.C., Singapore and Beijing—will also be working on building …

LOS ANGELES: Moving Pictures Film & Television has firmed up deals on several of its recent features, including Wake and Dolan’s Cadillac. All Interactive Entertainment took on Wake for pay-TV and DVD distribution rights in Australia and New Zealand. DigiDreams …

WASHINGTON, D.C.: The current output deal between National Geographic Channels International (NGCI) and Parthenon Entertainment has been extended for a further two years.   Through its partnership with NGCI, Parthenon has delivered more than 140 hours of programming and has …

NEW YORK: The digital editions of World Screen—featuring interviews with Hugh Laurie, Al Gore, Chase Carey, Gerhard Zeiler and many more—and our 25th anniversary Silver Edition—are now available. You can also access the digital editions of TV Europe, TV Real, TV Kids, TV Formats, …

NEEDHAM: A slate of five new sci-fi TV movies from Echo Bridge Entertainment have been picked up by Universal Networks International in a pay-TV deal.   The deal is for the first five sci-fi disaster TV movies in a slate …

SANTA MONICA/VANCOUVER: Lionsgate has named Priscilla Pesci as senior VP of television marketing and Toni Crotts as executive director of television marketing. Pesci, formerly senior VP of marketing for MGM Worldwide Television group and most recently head of her own marketing …

HILVERSUM: A new co-owned joint venture between Nordisk Film TV and Talpa Media will focus on producing programming for broadcasters in Denmark, Norway, Finland and Sweden. The new JV sees the production of Talpa formats in the genres of reality, …

NEW YORK: In this video interview, Ken Lowe, the chairman, president and CEO of Scripps Networks Interactive, talks about the rebranding of Fine Living into the Cooking Channel, plans for the recently acquired Travel Channel and new ways to connect …

SILVER SPRING: For the first time ever, Discovery Communications will be bringing a variety of formats to MIPTV that extend across genres such as adventure, competition, lifestyle and others. “It’s a new and exciting time for Discovery as we move …