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MIAMI: APA International Film Distributors is on hand at NATPE offering up La Historia de los Mundiales, covering all the World Cups from Uruguay 1930 until Germany 2006. APA has sold this product in 11 countries in Europe. La Historia …

LONDON: FremantleMedia Enterprises (FME) has appointed Bob Higgins to the role of senior VP of children’s and family entertainment, a division which launched in October. Higgins will be based in New York and will report to Sander Schwartz, the executive …

LAS VEGAS: Elisabeth Murdoch, the chairman and CEO of the Shine Group, will deliver the International Keynote at NATPE on Wednesday morning, and participate in a Q&A session with Anna Carugati, the group editorial director of World Screen. Murdoch’s session takes place …

LOS ANGELES: Rob Lowe is leaving ABC’s Brothers & Sisters after four seasons on the show. Lowe, who joined the show around episode ten, will leave after this season. Brothers & Sisters has been a strong performer for ABC in …

BUENOS AIRES: Dori Media Group is selling off its 50-percent interest in the Argentine production facility Dori Media Central Studios to its partner in the venture for $850,000. Dori Media is selling the stake to Celina Amadeo, who owns the remaining …

NEW YORK: The E! Entertainment pop-culture series True Hollywood Story (THS) is to launch this fall as a syndicated weekday strip, and Debmar-Mercury has cleared more than 180 hour-long episodes on the Fox, CBS, Weigel, Sunbeam, Capitol, Scripps, Raycom and …

NEW YORK/LONDON: FiberNet, a regional cable operator in Hungary, has begun carrying HISTORY in standard definition, fully localized in Hungarian. The channel has been available on the platform since the first of this month. In addition to FiberNet, HISTORY is also …

ENGLEWOOD: Liberty Global is selling its 37.8-percent ownership interest in Japanese cable, broadband and telephony provider Jupiter Telecommunications (J:COM) to wireless operator KDDI Corporation for $4 billion in cash.   Liberty Global is selling its subsidiaries that directly or indirectly …

SANTA MONICA: Debmar-Mercury is working with ITV Studios on an American version of the popular British daytime series The Jeremy Kyle Show for the national syndication market. The show will be rolled out by Debmar-Mercury to local station groups in 2011 following a …

NEEDHAM/LOS ANGELES: The teen drama series Instant Star is to launch throughout Latin America on Boomerang through a deal signed between Echo Bridge Entertainment and Turner Broadcasting System Latin America. The series is being dubbed in Spanish for its March …