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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 …

CANNES: BBC Worldwide announnced sales agreements in Central and Eastern Europe and New Zealand at MIPCOM this week on a variety of titles in its extensive slate. The company has clinched deals covering 14 broadcasters across CEE. Announcing the agreements, Heike Renner, BBC …

CANNES: ITV Studios Spain, a newly created production center based in Madrid, will be led by Fran Garcia as managing director. This is the sixth production center from ITV Studios, which has operations based in Los Angeles, Cologne, Stockholm, Sydney …

BURBANK: Rich Ross, currently the president of Disney Channels Worldwide, has been tapped to succeed Dick Cook as the chairman of The Walt Disney Studios, overseeing worldwide production, distribution and marketing for the company’s live-action and animated feature film labels. Reporting to …

CANNES: CBS’s new hit series NCIS: Los Angeles is headed to Scandinavia on TV3, with CBS Studios International licensing the exclusive free-TV rights to Viasat Broadcasting. Viasat will air the show in the spring of 2010 on TV3 in Sweden, Norway and …

LONDON/NEW YORK: Bloomberg Television is partnering with the Turkish media group Ciner Media to roll out the 24/7, local-laguage service BloombergHT (Haberturk). BloombergHT will deliver Turkish-language, real-time financial news and business information via carriage on cable and satellite platforms across Turkey …

CANNES/LOS ANGELES: Flashpoint has been ordered for a further 13 episodes by CBS Television Network in the U.S., following the pickup from Canada’s CTV. The total number of episodes in the series is brought to 44. Starring Hugh Dillon, Enrico …

  CANNES: The Multimedia Development Authority of Singapore (MDA) and Western Australia’s ScreenWest are re-teaming for an initiative that encourages producers in their respective territories to jointly co-develop multiplatform projects. The MDA-ScreenWest cross-media development initiative invites producers from Singapore and …

LONDON: Former Warner Bros. and Sony Pictures Television executive Sander Schwartz has been tapped to lead FremantleMedia Enterprises’s (FME) expansion into the kids’ and family programming sector. Schwartz has been named executive VP and head of children and family entertainment, reporting …

CANNES: Metan Development Group has firmed up a deal with Power for the exclusive distribution rights in China for the popular daytime soap operas Guiding Light and As the World Turns. Metan will be the exclusive representative in China for …