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MUNICH/LONDON: TV-Loonland has acquired the worldwide home-entertainment rights, excluding the U.S. and Canada, to the brand-new 44-minute My Little Pony Twinkle Wish Adventure special, as well as the original animated Transformers Generation 1 series and the G.I. Joe—A Real American Hero animated series …

MEVASSERT ZION: Pangea Studios, the scripted arm of RDF Media USA, has taken on the North American rights for Armoza Formats’ scripted comedy The Saddest Sketch Show in the World. The show, which is heading into its second season on …

TORONTO: Joan Lambur has been tapped to head up the animation division at Breakthrough Films & Television, where she will also oversee the company’s live-action kids’ and family TV series.   In her newly expanded role, Lambur will supervise the development and …

MONTREAL: Following on the recently announced partnership between Distraction and Zebra Producciones, the scripted drama Windfall and Misfortunes has been put into production in Spain. Zebra-Distraction has landed a deal for the scripted drama to be adapted for the Spanish …

BURBANK: SOAPnet has extended its deal with Sony Pictures Television to air same-day episodes of Days of Our Lives, along with scoring the digital streaming rights. The show has been on the air for more than 40 years, first premiering …

NEW YORK: Atlas Media’s 2×1-hour mini-series Science Impossible will be introduced to the international market by Beyond Distribution at MIPTV. The show explores strange cases and amazing feats of "superhumans" who have odd abilities. These include people who can re-grow …

TORONTO: CCI Releasing has sold Alice Upside Down to, among others, YTV in Canada, Disney in Latin America and Scandinavia and Noga in Israel. Further sales for the tween comedy, which is based on the Alice novels by Phylis Reynolds …

NEW YORK: A new study released by the Council for Research Excellence (CRE) has found that young baby boomers—those aged between 45 and 54—spend more time with media platforms than any other demographic, at an average of 9.5 hours per day …

VIENNA: Programs on offer from the Austrian Broadcasting Corporation (ORF) span feature films, series, TV movies, factual and formats, including the new multimedia reality show Taxi Orange. In the way of feature films, The Mail Bomber tells the story of …

ALVISO: After scoring partnerships to launch in Australia, Canada and Mexico, TiVo has inked a deal to roll out its service in New Zealand later this year, working with TVNZ. Television New Zealand has taken a 33-percent ownership stake in Hybrid …