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TORONTO: Cookie Jar Entertainment’s new season of Caillou will start airing on Canadian preschool network Treehouse on September 7, with a sneak peek available online. The show will air Monday through Friday at 7:30 a.m., Tuesdays and Thursdays at 1 p.m., …

VICTORIA: Australian distributor Short Attention has sold its cooking lifestyle series Boys Weekend to BBC Worldwide Channels to air in select territories on BBC Lifestyle. The show heads to BBC Lifestyle across Scandinavia, Africa and the Middle East. Boys Weekend …

NEW YORK: Time Warner has inked a seven-year deal with Nielsen covering television, online and mobile measurement services, among other forms of audience research. With the agreement, Nielsen will provide its measurement services to Turner Broadcasting, The CW Television Network, HBO and …

NEW ORLEANS: Nickelodeon has unveiled plans for its first-ever outdoor theme park, aligning with Southern Star Amusements (SSA) to build a new family destination in New Orleans. Nickelodeon’s expansion into the travel and leisure space already includes the Nickelodeon Family Suites in Orlando, …

LOS ANGELES: CBS Fall Preview, a prime-time special looking at the network’s upcoming lineup, will be hosted by the stars of How I Met Your Mother, and will air on September 2. Airing at 8:30 p.m., CBS Fall Preview will …

OAKBROOK TERRACE: Redbox this morning announced that it has filed suit against Warner Home Video, taking issue with the studio’s new distribution terms. It has been a busy few weeks for the DVD kiosk operator as it takes on the …

NASHVILLE: Four international documentaries are to make their U.S. TV premieres on The Documentary Channel (DOC) in its Monday night Primetime Premieres lineup this September. DOC will present the U.S. TV premiere of The Water Project: Bahrain on September 7 …

BUENOS AIRES: Dori Media Group and Rosstoc are co-producing Ciega a Citas (Date Blind), a daily telenovela inspired by a blog penned by Carolina Aguirre, writing as Lucía González. Ciega a Citas tells of Lucía, a 31-year-old journalist who goes through …

LOS ANGELES: Showtime has released details about a 10-episode documentary series, slated to premiere in 2010, created and executive produced by Academy Award-winning filmmaker Oliver Stone. Oliver Stone’s Secret History of America has been in the works for the last …

LONDON: Indonesian network Indosiar launched its own version of the FremantleMedia dating format Take Him Out over the weekend, scoring a 36-percent audience share and more than 6 million viewers. Take Him Out Indonesia, a co-production between FremantleMedia Asia and …