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LONDON: Media Entertainment Group (MEG) has picked up two new titles from the U.S. for its formats slate, Camping with the In-laws and Second Chance Makeover. Created by Clay Newbill at 310 Entertainment (producer of The Mole) and Spike Jones, …

OTTAWA-GATINEAU: The new regulatory framework from the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission (CRTC) supports giving free-to-air commercial broadcasters the ability to negotiate retransmission fees with the pay-TV operators. Calling it a "market-based solution," the proposed regulation allows each television station the …

MUMBAI: The Walt Disney Company has signed a multi-year distribution agreement to expand the carriage of Disney Channel, Disney XD and Hungama TV on cable, DTH and IPTV platforms in India. The deal, which takes effect April 1, will see Sun …

NEW YORK: 4Kids Entertainment is to present at MIPTV the fantasy adventure series Tai Chi Chasers, which will be available for airing in the fourth quarter of 2011 in all markets outside of Asia. The 39×30-minute series uses a combination …

  HARRINGTON PARK: As a result of its acquisition of the Inecom Entertainment film library, Janson Media has a number of new blue-chip feature-length history documentaries to showcase at MIPTV. Titles include Silent Wings: The American Glider Pilots of WWII, …

BUENOS AIRES: Bernarda Llorente and Claudio Villarruel, formerly at Argentine broadcaster Telefe, have set up a new content venture. Villaruel and Llorente left their posts as artistic and programming directors at Telefe in December. At the broadcasting group they had founded …

LOS ANGELES: Chris Philip, most recently president of worldwide sales at Power, has set up a new international production and distribution company, Engine Entertainment, that officially launches at MIPTV. The new venture will represent a library of content across all genres …

COLOGNE: RTL Germany has commissioned Granada Germany to produce a third season of the BBC Worldwide entertainment format Let’s Dance, based on the British hit Strictly Come Dancing. Let’s Dance sees a cast of celebrities partnering with professional dancers to …

NEW YORK: PBS Frontline’s documentary Digital Nation: Life on the Virtual Frontier is now available on Verizon’s FiOS TV Video on Demand. The documentary is part of an ongoing, multiplatform initiative that explores the impact of the web and digital …

LONDON: RDF Rights and IFC have secured a co-production deal for The Increasingly Poor Decisions of Todd Margaret, a scripted comedy created and written by David Cross, who also stars in the series. The show follows the misadventures of Todd …