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CANNES: ITV Studios Global Entertainment will serve as the international distribution partner on several titles in the catalogue of Australia’s Foxtel.   ITV Studios takes all media rights, excluding Australia, for Foxtel’s portfolio of finished programming and formats that includes …

NEW YORK: TV Land has secured the prime-time broadcast rights for Everybody Loves Raymond from CBS Television Distribution beginning June 2010.   The series, which won 15 Emmy Awards, has 212 episodes that will premiere in TV Land Prime, the …

CANNES: There are three new blue-chip documentaries on the Discovery Communications slate, which further features a lineup of science programming.   “By making science programming entertaining and compelling, Discovery is able to help viewers become more engaged in the learning …

CANNES: Brian Goldner, the president and CEO of Hasbro, spoke about the move into becoming a branded play company in his keynote speech at MIPCOM, followed by a Q&A with Anna Carugati, the group editorial director of World Screen. After …

CANNES: At a press conference this morning, Globo TV International and Telemundo Internacional unveiled details of their new co-production El Clon, which premieres in 2010 and has already sold across much of the Americas. The telenovela is a Hispanic version of …

CANNES: Sony Pictures Television (SPT) and Mark Burnett have developed a new hour-long competition series inspired by the iconic show Fantasy Island.  Set in a resort hotel on an exotic island, the series will follow 12 contestants who will compete …

CANNES: Universal Networks International has joined forces with E1 Entertainment to co-finance Haven, a 13×1-hour series based on the Steven King novella The Colorado Kid. The series is set to begin production early 2010, due to air by fall 2011. …

CANNES: In town to promote The Marriage Ref, a new comedy panel series he is executive producing with Ellen Rakieten for NBC, Jerry Seinfeld told World Screen Newsflash: "I feel more confident about this than most other things I’ve done." Endemol is …

CANNES: Studio100 Media and Wish Films UK have struck a co-production and distribution agreement for the new animated series Florrie’s Dragons. Based on the book Dear Dragon, the 52×10-minute Florrie’s Dragons is targeted at children 3 to 6. The series …

MUNICH: SevenOne International has sold the dramedy S1NGLE to ORF1 in Austria, while a local version of its hit game show Beat your Host! is headed to TV2 in Hungary. S1NGLE, about three girlfriends who stand by each other through …