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LOS ANGELES: The team behind Southland, executive produced by John Wells for Warner Bros., is looking for a cable home for the crime series following its cancellation by NBC. Launched midseason to strong ratings and critical acclaim as a possible successor …

PALISADES PARK: In its fourth consecutive year as the exclusive international distributor for Spike TV’s Scream 2009, Alfred Haber Distribution, Inc. (AHDI) has landed sales for the awards show with broadcasters in Australia, Germany, Japan and Greece, among other territories. …

LOS ANGELES: Following the record-breaking premiere of season four of the acclaimed drama Dexter, Showtime has announced plans to debut a series of animated webisodes to accompany the series. Dexter: Early Cuts is a 12-part series consisting of four, one to …

HONG KONG: Cartoon Network Asia is working with the Malaysian outfit Animasia on a cricket-based animated series that is set to premiere on its Indian feed in the second half of this year. The show, unveiled at MIPCOM this week, will focus …

BEIJING: In Beijing for the World Media Summit, Rupert Murdoch, the chairman and CEO of News Corporation, urged the Chinese government to open up the country to media competition and to ramp up IP protection efforts. In his speech at …

LONDON: Sony Pictures Entertainment (SPE) is seeking to offload its 21-percent interest in the Shine Group that it acquired in 2005 for £5 million. Reports indicate that JPMorgan has been retained to seek a buyer for the stake in Elisabeth …

CINCINNATI: Scripps Networks Interactive is rebranding its Fine Living Network (FLN) as the Cooking Channel in a bid to expand distribution of the service, which currently stands at 55 million homes. The launch of the Cooking Channel in place of …

NEW YORK: BBC Worldwide has signed a three-year output deal with Brazilian broadcaster TV Globo covering a range of programming from the company’s catalogue. The new first-look agreement, which runs until 2012, follows BBC Worldwide’s first three-year output deal with the broadcaster, which was …

STOCKHOLM: Modern Times Group’s Viasat Broadcasting is to begin marketing and selling its pay-TV channel packages to subscribers of the Estonian broadband and IPTV services provider Elion. Of Elion’s 175,000 broadband customers, 88,000  subscribe to its IPTV offering. Viasat’s Estonian free-TV channels (TV3, TV6 …

CANNES: Hareport, a co-production between CAKE Entertainment and TeamTO, Filmwerken and Vivi Film, has secured a round of international sales. The 3-D action-comedy series sold to SVT in Sweden, NRK in Norway, YLE in Finland, A&Y in Russia, Minimax in …