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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 …

OAKBROOK TERRACE: DVD kiosk operator Redbox’s antitrust lawsuit against Universal Studios Home Entertainment can proceed, according to a federal judge, who yesterday denied the studio’s motion to dismiss the case. Universal is among the Hollywood studios placing limits on granting …

NEW YORK: The new series Abby’s Flying Fairy School is one of four shows in development from Sesame Workshop, which for the first time ever is seeing its Sesame Street muppets transform into CGI. The CGI-animated Abby’s Flying Fairy School features …

NEW YORK: The third season of AMC’s acclaimed original drama Mad Men opened with a series best of 2.8 million viewers on Sunday night, a 34-percent increase on the second season premiere. Meanwhile, across the three airings of the premiere …

NEW YORK: Lisa Leingang takes on the role of senior VP of original programming and development for East Coast operations at Comedy Central. Leingang will oversee the development and production of all Comedy Central original pilots and series based on …

ATLANTA: The newly created position of VP and executive producer for Cartoon Network Digital will be taken on by Kitric Kerns. Kerns will oversee the overall strategy and development of content for CartoonNetwork.com, which averages more than 5 million unique …

LONDON: BBC Worldwide Channels is rebranding BBC Prime in Europe and the Middle East as BBC Entertainment beginning this November. BBC Entertainment has already rolled out across Asia, including India, as well as in Poland, Africa, Scandinavia and Latin America. Offering comedy, …

NEW YORK: Veronica Hart has been promoted to VP of licensing at CBS Consumer Products, while John Van Citters has been upped to VP of product development. Hart is responsible for managing an expanded portfolio of licensing categories, including toys …

LOS ANGELES: Harry Sloan is out as the CEO of MGM but will remain as chairman, with the studio forming an "Office of the CEO" with production head Mary Parent, CFO Bedi A. Singh and new appointee Stephen F. Cooper, …