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NEW YORK: CBS Consumer Products has teamed up with a number of casual-game developers and video-game publishers to extend the experience for eight popular TV shows, including The Amazing Race and CSI: Crime Scene Investigation. Ubisoft has developed CSI: Crime …

LOS ANGELES: Produced by Endemol USA, Jerseylicious, slated for a spring 2010 on The Style Network, will follow the lives of six stylists working in New Jersey. The docusoap will chronicle the stylists’ lives in and out of their popular …

RICHFIELD: Retailer Best Buy is launching a service allowing consumers to rent or buy movies and TV shows from their electronics devices, to be powered by Sonic Solutions’ Roxio CinemaNow platform. Under the terms of the agreement, Best Buy acquired …

SILVER SPRING: Investigation Discovery (ID) has picked up the U.S. rights for the first season of Mystery Files from Parthenon Entertainment with the option to acquire future seasons. Filmed in HD, Mystery Files features dramatic reconstructions of some of history’s …

ABU DHABI: CNN has opened its new news-gathering and production hub in the Middle East, which will host the global network’s first daily live news show from the region. Tony Maddox, the managing director and executive VP of CNN International, …

NEW YORK: The MetLife Foundation has awarded Sesame Workshop a grant to promote the importance of healthy habits for children through its Sesame Street characters in India and Mexico. The initiative will kick off in India with Galli Galli Sim …

BURBANK: Cookie Jar Entertainment has launched a public beta version of Jaroo.com, a new online portal that houses full-length episodes from a range of current and classic kids’ series. Debuting today, the site offers 50 shows, with a minimum of …

ENCINO: The Travel Channel has picked up High Tech Monorails from Solid Entertainment to add to its programming roster.  From RAK Productions, High Tech Monorails takes viewers around the globe to tour some of the most efficient and exotic monorail …

 LOS ANGELES: A range of broadcast agreements have been secured by Toei Animation in Latin America for Digimon Data Squad, Saint Seiya and Dragon Ball. Buena Vista in Argentina picked up 48 half-hour episodes of Digimon Data Squad to begin airing …

MADRID/LONDON/BURBANK: Josh Berger, the president and managing director for the U.K. and Ireland at Warner Bros., is to add oversight of the studio’s Spanish operations to his remit. Berger will assume the role of president and managing director for Warner …