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ANCHORAGE: Evergreen Films has signed up to develop the Kate Shugak, Alaska P.I. mystery book series from author Dana Stabenow into a TV property. The development deal between Stabenow and Evergreen Films guarantees the majority of the filming and production …

LONDON: Brightcove has added Virgin Media Television to its roster of British clients, with the Internet TV service powering LIVING’s online channel Liv, which delivers free, original short-form content. Liv went live last week, accessible from Living’s website as well …

SANTA BARBARA: Foothill Entertainment has firmed up a co-production agreement with Neptuno Films and Title Entertainment for the original animated series Gododo. The series, created by Ian Ellery and Guy Hallifax, follows the last surviving dodo, Gododo, who is thoroughly …

SOFIA: Krassimir Nikolov has been upped to the role of country manager for Bulgaria and the Balkans at Fox International Channels (FIC) Europe. He will assume management for Bulgaria, Serbia, Slovenia, Albania, Bosnia, Croatia, Kosovo, Macedonia and Montenegro. Nikolov will …

PORT WASHINGTON: E1 Entertainment has promoted Dan Gurlitz from VP of video to senior VP of the division.  Gurlitz joined E1 in 2003 to oversee and develop its video division and to assume the role of general manager for KOCH …

LOS ANGELES: Stelle Stolper, the co-founder of Ish Entertainment—the venture behind MTV’s Paris Hilton’s My New BFF, among other reality titles—is forming a new joint venture with Reveille. Wikked Entertainment will produce original entertainment for television under the leadership of …

MUNICH: Tandem Communications has closed an output deal with Belgian broadcaster VMMa covering a range of TV movies and series, following similar agreements with Spain’s Cuatro, Slovakia’s TV JOJ and Romania’s ProTV. The broadcasting group has secured the rights to a …

LONDON: Richard Sattin takes on the role of head of factual at Parthenon Entertainment with immediate effect.  Sattin will be responsible for developing new factual programming and supervising documentary production. He was formerly the managing director at Principal Films and head …

WASHINGTON, D.C.: The Lost JFK Tapes: The Assassination, a two-hour documentary that features a wealth of rarely seen news footage, is to air on National Geographic Channel on November 23, in conjunction with the anniversary of the assassination of the former …

LOS ANGELES: David Borshell, the former head of Image Entertainment, has teamed up with Andy Reimer, who was most recently at HBO Video, to launch Inception Media Group, an L.A.-based venture focused on the acquisition, production and distribution of films and …