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NEW YORK: Viacom and BET Networks have launched the new 24-hour entertainment network Centric, targeting "African American and multicultural adults" with music, series, movies and reality programming. Centric went live yesterday at 6 a.m. replacing the BET J brand. Its core …

LONDON: A range of formats from Love Productions will be on offer from BBC Worldwide, including the hit reality show Famous, Rich and Homeless, which has now been licensed to three European countries. Spain’s Antena3 is to make its own …

LONDON: The extreme physical-challenge format Wipeout from Endemol is set to launch in more countries, bringing the total number of locally produced versions to 23. Russia’s Channel One is set for a local treatment of Wipeout, which will be a …

MUNICH: The Tele München Group (TMG) has added to the cast of its new screen adaptation of the literary classic Moby Dick, headlined by William Hurt as the one-legged Captain Ahab and Ethan Hawke as first officer Starbuck.  Charlie Cox (Casanova, Stardust) plays the third …

LOS ANGELES/TORONTO: E1 Entertainment has clinched a deal with the executive producers of The Dead Zone to develop and produce a new series based on Stephen King’s novella The Colorado Kid. E1 is working with Piller/Segan/Shepherd for the 13×1-hour series Haven. …

TORONTO: Nickelodeon is set to launch in Canada as a full 24-hour network on November 2, via a deal between Corus Entertainment and MTV Networks International. In Canada, YTV has long been the home of Nickelodeon titles. With the new …

LONDON: A new deal between BBC Worldwide, Impossible Pictures and ITV has resurrected the popular drama Primeval, which is now set to return to British screens in 2011 with two new seasons. ITV has previously said that the show would …

LONDON: A new first-run programming deal announced between NBC Universal Global Networks and Warner Bros. International Television Distribution (WBITD) for the U.K. covers three new series from the 2009-10 season: V, Human Target and Eastwick. The agreement, which brings the …

SYDNEY: ITV Studios Global Entertainment has sold a package of drama and movies to NBC Universal Global Networks Asia Pacific’s 13th Street and Hallmark Channels in Australia via a four-year output deal. The volume deal covers more than 500 hours of …

LONDON: Chello Zone has secured a deal with Africa’s My TV platform for the launch of the women’s lifestyle channel Zone Club as a 24-hour English-language offering this October. Zone Club features everything from drama to chat, health to documentaries …