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TORONTO: The World of Eric Carle, Kamen Rider: Dragon Knight and (Not So) Scary Monsters are joining the portfolio of CPLG Canada, which has signed new licensees for the It’s Happy Bunny and Caillou properties. CPLG Canada will create a full-scale …

TORONTO: Shaftesbury Films has completed the third season of the half-hour teen comedy Overruled!, which airs on Family Channel in Canada.  The show follows 15-year-old Jared "Coop" Cooper, who is a lawyer in his high school’s teen court. Overruled! airs …

LONDON: BBC In-House Entertainment has named Sarah Edwards, currently the head of development for entertainment at Talkback Thames, as its head of format entertainment development. Edwards, a former head of development at 12 Yard Productions, has developed entertainment formats such …

MIAMI: Telemundo Communications Group is to enhance and expand its news content across key day parts and multiple platforms, featuring an increased investment in local newscasts.  "The media business is going through enormous changes, we are in a technological revolution …

UNIVERSAL CITY: The freshman musical dramedy Glee notched up four nominations for the 67th annual Golden Globe Awards, making it the most-nominated series, while HBO was once again the most-nominated network, with 17 nods in total.  FOX’s Glee faces off for …

NEW YORK: The number of Americans choosing TV as their favorite type of media increased by 26 percent this year, according to the new Deloitte State of the Media Democracy survey, with the recession seeing consumers turning more to in-home …

UNIVERSAL CITY: NBC Universal has renewed its creative relationship for another three years with BermanBraun, which will continue to develop a broad range of scripted and unscripted projects on a first-look basis for all of the company’s TV divisions.    BermanBraun is the …

SINGAPORE: The tenth edition of the Asia TV Forum (ATF) in Singapore earlier this month generated $88.7 million in programming sales, according to organizer Reed Exhibitions, a 20-percent gain on last year’s market. Highlights of the three-day event included a co-production …

LONDON: Channel 4 has greenlit a second season of Have You Been Watching, in which writer, comedian and Guardian columnist Charlie Brooker quizzes three guests on the week’s TV highlights. The first season achieved an average of 1.4 million viewers. …

SINGAPORE: Singaporean platforms StarHub and SingTel are struggling to reach a deal for World Cup 2010 rights, issuing a statement noting that the asking price to broadcast next year’s event has "escalated substantially." The rival platforms put together a joint …