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TORONTO/LONDON, October 27: DECODE Enterprises has appointed Emmanuelle Bon to handle sales for French-speaking Europe, Benelux and Scandinavia across the company’s distribution catalogue. As territory manager, she will be leading the sales efforts for the company’s catalogue, which includes programming …

TOKYO, October 24: Sony Corporation is the latest company to revise its financial forecasts, lowering its projected profit for the fiscal year ended March 31, 2009, to 150 billion yen ($1.6 billion), 59-percent lower than its profits for fiscal 2008. …

NEW YORK, October 24: Sumner Redstone, the executive chairman of Viacom and CBS Corporation, has asserted that there’s “not a chance” he’d sell either organization to resolve the debt issues at his family holding company, National Amusements. Redstone made the …

LOS ANGELES, October 24: The Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers (AMPTP) has agreed to meet with a federal mediator in the hopes of reaching a deal with the Screen Actors Guild (SAG). Talks between the organizations have stalled, …

LONDON, October 24: Extreme Fishing, Warship and The Hotel Inspector are all set to return to Five in the U.K. with new seasons. The second season of Extreme Fishing will follow host Robson Green into the sub-zero temperatures of Northern …

WEST PALM BEACH/NEW YORK, October 24: ION Television is set to debut the three-hour British mystery-thriller Archangel, starring the newest James Bond, Daniel Craig, on November 1 at 8 p.m. Set in contemporary Moscow, the film takes place over four …

LONDON, October 24: Social-networking site Bebo has launched Chelsey: OMG!, a new interactive online comedy about an American 20-something in London, which is being rolled out worldwide by Digital Rights Group’s i-Rights. Bebo, owned by AOL, has 11.6 million unique …

NEW YORK, October 24: A new 26×2-minute series of animated shorts featuring Japanese viral sensation Domo will make its U.S. broadcast debut on Nicktoons Network, following previous launches earlier this year on Nickelodeon’s international channels in Europe, Latin America, Australia …

LONDON, October 24: 2waytraffic has struck deals for Nippon Television’s (NTV) hit Japanese format Silent Library in six countries, including France and Norway. Antena 3 in Spain is currently broadcasting the format under the title La Biblioteka on its youth …

LONDON, October 24: The British kids’ and family brands outfit Coolabi has acquired the independent licensing agency Licensing By Design (LBD), home to several British animation classics, including Ivor the Engine. Coolabi now has the licensing and merchandising rights to …