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NEW YORK/SUNNYVALE: WPP’s GroupM Entertainment is partnering with Yahoo! in a bid to help marketers creatively incorporate their brands into original online programming, which will then appear across Yahoo!’s network of Internet properties. The two companies will work together to identify …

MADRID/NEW YORK: Spain’s PRISA, whose assets include Cuatro, Digital+ and Portugal’s TVI, has acquired a 12-percent stake in U.S. Hispanic broadcaster V-me, with a view to taking majority control within the next 12 months. The 24-hour digital-broadcast service, presented by …

NEW YORK: Scott Sternberg Productions and Weinberger Media have developed a new daily strip, Legal Ease, that features lawyers from New York City law firm Tacopina Law dishing out real legal advice to Americans in need of counsel.  Legal Ease will be shot …

ABU DHABI: twofour54 ibtikar: creative lab has been set up to provide grant funding for projects across all platforms from young Arabs in the media and entertainment sector. twofour54 ibtikar, the media industry funding and support pillar of twofour54 Abu Dhabi, …

SYDNEY: Network Ten has commissioned a third season of the action drama series Rush, produced by Endemol-owned Southern Star and distributed internationally by Endemol Worldwide Distribution. The series, set in a critical incident response unit, has sold to France (AB Droits), Canada …

NEW YORK: Comedy Central has secured an agreement with Twentieth Television for the exclusive basic cable syndication rights to the FX comedy series It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia in a multi-year deal that kicks off in summer 2010. Following the …

SANTA MONICA: Olive Productions, the production company set up by Steve Buscemi, Stanley Tucci and Wren Arthur, has scored pilot orders from TBS and HBO, with the projects to be co-produced by Lionsgate, with which it has a first-look deal. The …

NEW YORK: The Mirage Group has sold the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles franchise to Nickelodeon for $60 million, ending its long-running licensing and production partnership with 4Kids Entertainment, which received $9.75 million for the early termination of its contract. 4Kids Entertainment’s contract …

SÃO PAULO: TV Globo International has secured a carriage deal with Telmex TV in Peru, bringing its reach to 54 platforms worldwide. Telmex TV carriage began earlier this month in areas such as Lima, Chiclayo and Piura. It adds to the …

BURBANK: Starz Media’s The Dog Who Saved Christmas has been slated for ABC Family’s Countdown to 25 Days of Christmas programming event. The two-hour originally movie will make its worldwide premiere on ABC Family on November 29 at 8 p.m. …