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BURBANK: FremantleMedia North America is reviving the Let’s Make a Deal classic game show for CBS, which is scheduled to launch the show, hosted by Wayne Brady, on October 5 in a weekday daytime slot. In the one-hour show, audience …

SINGAPORE: SPE Networks—Asia’s English-language entertainment channels AXN Beyond and Sony Entertainment Television (SET) have secured carriage in Indonesia on Indovision, joining the flagship AXN and the youth network Animax. “Indonesia is a huge market and it has one of the …

TORONTO: Temple Street Productions, the indie outfit behind series such as Being Erica and Queer as Folk, has signed with Creative Artists Agency for representation in the U.S. Temple Street has exported a number of scripted and nonscripted series into …

LONDON: Caroline Torrance, most recently with Endemol, is joining BBC Worldwide as its director of investment, heading up the company’s content acquisition team. Torrance takes over from Matt Forde, who has been upped to the position of executive VP of sales …

LOS ANGELES: The fall schedule of Fox Reality Channel will include a mix of original programs, such as Househusbands of Hollywood, and acquired series, like Trading Spouses and Nanny 911. New episodes of Nanny 911 launch on August 17, with …

LONDON: Men Who Hate Women, the first feature film in the Millennium trilogy, has been sold by Zodiak Entertainment into five new territories. NFP (Distribution Warner Bros.) in Germany, Paradiso in Japan, Polyfilm in Austria, Mirovision in South Korea and …

NEW YORK: Leading private-equity firm Veronis Suhler Stevenson (VSS) says that communications will be the third fastest-growing sector of the U.S. economy from 2009 to 2013, despite a 1-percent decline in spending this year to $882.6 billion. VSS reports that total communications spending …

LONDON: MTV Networks International has secured new European agreements for Comedy Central programming, along with closing multiple deals around the world for its MTV brand. From the Comedy Central portfolio, The Sarah Silverman Show is set to launch on Belgium’s …

SILVER SPRING: Second-quarter net profit at Discovery Communications rose from $43 million to $183 million, on revenues that were down slightly to $881 million, thanks to ratings increases at its U.S. network, increased international subscribers and cost cuts. "Discovery’s second-quarter …

LOS ANGELES: The new half-hour E! series Reality Hell pokes fun at some of today’s most popular TV show concepts by taking an unsuspecting participant, who believes they’re on an actual reality competition, and turning the tables by setting up …