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LONDON: The BBC has unveiled Democracy Live, an online destination that will deliver live and on-demand coverage of Britain’s national political institutions and the European Parliament. Found at bbc.co.uk/democracylive, the site will allow users to follow political debates based on the issues …

BURBANK: Disney Television Animation has appointed Kevin Gamble, most recently VP of production and creative for Classic Media, as its new VP of development. Reporting to Eric Coleman, the senior VP of original series at Disney Television Animation, Gamble will be responsible for the …

LONDON: UKTV’s Home has commissioned My Flat Pack Home from October Films and a second season of Gutted from TwoFour Productions. Each episode of the 20×30-minute My Flat Pack Home will feature an individual, couple or family who have decided …

LOS ANGELES: Allan Singer takes on the role of executive VP of distribution and strategy for OWN: The Oprah Winfrey Network, joining from Comcast, where he served as senior VP of content acquisition. Singer will lead the content distribution and …

ATLANTA: TNT has acquired the rights to air all six episodes produced for the second season of John Wells’ cop drama Southland, which was cancelled by NBC, as well as all seven episodes from the first season. The series was initially …

LOS ANGELES: Clandestine Service, a distributor of feature films and TV programming, has named Robert Aaronson as executive VP of acquisitions and Roy Bodner as COO. Aaronson is tasked with sourcing and acquiring feature films for distribution to the international market, and …

NEW YORK/LONDON: A new deal with CANAL+ Cyfrowy takes HISTORY’s reach to more than 1 million households across Poland. CYFRA+ is the first Polish DTH platform offering HISTORY. The channel will be fully localized in Polish, and will be offered …

LOS ANGELES/OAKBROOK TERRACE: Redbox has clinched a two-year deal with Summit Entertainment, bringing the Twilight movie franchise to its more than 15,000 DVD kiosks across the U.S. The deal expands the selection of Summit Entertainment titles available at Redbox’s kiosk …

SILVER SPRING: The BBC’s epic natural-history series Life will be narrated by Oprah Winfrey when it airs on Discovery Channel in the U.S. in March 2010. The 11-part series is a follow up to the BBC’s ambitious Planet Earth and focuses …

RIO DE JANEIRO: Brazil’s Record has opened up two new studios at its RecNov (Record Novelas) production complex, as part of its efforts to ramp up its original programming capabilities. Record acquired the production complex in 2005, when it was …