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MUNICH: Studio100 has formally merged its EM.Entertainment and Junior.TV subsidiaries, acquired from EM.Sport Media (now Constantin Media) last year, with its Studio100 Media division. Since April 19, the three companies have been trading under the name of Studio100 Media GmbH. The company develops and acquires …

LOS ANGELES: Ovation TV has scooped up the BBC music program Later…with Jools Holland, and will run the show exclusively for the next 27 new episodes. Ovation TV will kick off the series with a Labor Day weekend marathon showcasing …

LOS ANGELES: The new G4 comedy series Web Soup, from the producers of E!’s hit series The Soup, packages the best viral videos from the web into a half-hour weekly show, hosted by Chris Hardwick. Debuting June 7 at 9 …

WASHINGTON, D.C.: Alaskan Killer Shark, co-produced by National Geographic Channels International (NGCI) and Off the Fence Productions, takes an in-depth look into the hidden world of Alaska’s salmon sharks. In co-production with Dangerous Passage Productions, the documentary uses cutting-edge camera …

TORONTO: The inaugural Canwest-Hot Docs Pitch Prize was handed out at the Toronto Documentary Forum (TDF), with the C$40,000 going to Toronto’s White Pine Pictures for The Team. Pitched as a feature-length, vérité-style documentary, The Team takes place in Kenya …

BARCELONA: A number of deals have been signed across Latin America by Imira Entertainment from its third-party slate, which includes the likes of the Jonathan M. Schiff/ZDF Enterprises live-action series The Elephant Princess. The Elephant Princess went to Chilean free-TV …

NEW YORK: TVLatina.tv, World Screen’s leading Spanish-language website, has launched the L.A. Screenings Multimedia Extravaganza, delivering features, interviews, audio, a host of resources—including a suite directory for the Century Plaza and InterContinental hotels—and the Enfocados en el futuro (Focused on the Future) video …

LOS ANGELES: The new Star Trek movie opened with a $72.5-million North American box-office intake this weekend, rising to the number one spot and topping the opening weekend grosses of all previous releases in the 40-year-old franchise. The J.J. Abrams reboot, …

NEW YORK: Jane Root, most recently president of Discovery Channel in the U.S., is working on a 12-part series, America The Story of Us, for HISTORY, which is billing it as a "groundbreaking initiative of epic proportions." Slated for a …

HONG KONG: The Hindi general-entertainment channel STAR PLUS is to serve as the exclusive broadcaster for the 2009 International Indian Film Academy (IIFA) Awards, reaching 150 million viewers in the Indian Subcontinent, Southeast Asia, the Middle East, the U.S. and …