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SYDNEY: Beyond Distribution has sold 24 titles to Rainbow Media for the international feeds of WE tv and Sundance Channel. Beyond licensed 12 series, totaling more than 130 hours of HD drama and factual programming, to WE tv for viewers in …

BURBANK: Two one-hour dramas have been given ten-episode orders by ABC Family: Huge and Pretty Little Liars.  Huge, based on Sasha Paley’s book of the same name, follows six teens and the staff at a weight-loss camp, as they look …

LONDON: Endemol Worldwide Distribution has set up a new office in Los Angeles, promoting Matt Creasey to oversee its business in the Americas, among other territories, and tapping Rolando Figueroa for a Latin American and U.S. Hispanic sales post. Creasey, formerly …

PORT WASHINGTON: E1 Entertainment has acquired all North American rights to Federico Fellini’s La Dolce Vita, alongside four other classic Italian films, through a new agreement with International Media Films. E1 previously only held North American home-video rights for La …

LONDON: For the first half of the year, British satellite platform BSkyB posted revenues of £2.9 billion, a 10-percent increase on the year-ago period, with a net profit of £256 million, a 54-percent increase. The platform now has 9.7 million …

LONDON: Sky is to launch Sky 3D, Europe’s first dedicated 3D channel, in April, and is offering a preview of the new service on January 31 with the live broadcast of the Premier League match between Arsenal and Manchester United. …

LONDON: Justin Lee Collins: Good Times, a Tiger Aspect production for Five, is a new ten-part entertainment chat show that will air each week starting from the end of March. Collins, who joined Five on an exclusive two-year deal last …

LAS VEGAS: Panama’s TVN is the first channel in Central America to pick up Globo TV International’s India: A Love Story. India: A Love Story was the winner of the 2009 International Emmy Award for best telenovela. The cast of …

PARIS: France’s M6 Group has reported its fourth-quarter results, with revenues increasing by 7.4 percent to 402.2 million euros, including a gain in ad revenues at its flagship terrestrial channel, the first since the second quarter of 2008. M6 reported …

NEW YORK/MUMBAI: Leading Hindi-language general-entertainment channel Colors, a joint venture of Viacom and India’s Network18, launched yesterday on DISH Network in the U.S. Colors, one of a portfolio of channels operated by the Viacom/Network18 joint venture Viacom18 Media, will be …