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BUENOS AIRES, June 20: Dori Media Distribution has secured a raft of international sales for the telenovelas Lalola, Patito Feo and Rebelde Way. Lalola, which was nominated for 16 Martin Fierro Awards in Argentina and has been licensed into more …

LONDON, June 20: BBC Worldwide has reached an agreement with Gameloft for the creation of a mobile video game for the U.K. market that is based on its BAFTA and Emmy Award-winning motoring series Top Gear. Top Gear: The Mobile …

NEW YORK, June 20: Scholastic Media’s vocabulary-based 2-D animated series WorldGirl, produced by Soup2Nuts, won the award for Outstanding Writing in Animation at the 35th annual Creative Arts & Entertainment Daytime Emmy Awards. The series, which airs five days a …

NEW YORK/STOCKHOLM, June 19: VOOM HD Networks and NonStop Television have inked a deal to distribute the action-sports channel RUSH HD into the Nordic and Baltic regions. This agreement adds to the companies’ current partnership, which brought VOOM HD into …

LONDON, June 19: ALL3MEDIA International has licensed a range of dramas into Central and Eastern Europe for broadcast and home-entertainment distribution, including Midsomer Murders. Several of the deals were finalized at DISCOP. The thrillers He Kills Coppers and Cape Wrath, …

LONDON/BUDAPEST, June 19: BBC Worldwide announced in Budapest today a 180-hour content deal with the Kazakhstan broadcaster Kahbar Agency covering a range of genres. “We haven’t done something there in a couple of years,” Christine Muller, the territory manager for …

MIAMI, June 19: Telemundo Communications Group revealed that Monday’s debut of the telenovela Sin senos no hay paraíso drew 749,000 adults aged 18 to 49, ranking as the night’s highest-rated premiere in the Nielsen Television Index (NTI) for the 10 …

HONG KONG, June 19: India’s INX Media will roll out its Hindi general-entertainment channel 9X, along with its music network 9XM, in the Middle East. INX Media has appointed Dubai-based consultancy outfit Media Solutions to spearhead its expansion into the …

LOS ANGELES, June 19: YouTube is rolling out a dedicated area that will showcase an international selection of short and feature-length films, allowing filmmakers from around the world to distribute their work and generate revenue. The YouTube Screening Room will …

NEW YORK, June 19: Susanne Daniels will resign from her post as the president of entertainment at Lifetime Networks, remaining in the position until she has identified a successor. Daniels, who joined Lifetime in August 2005, is responsible for all …