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AMSTERDAM/LONDON, October 14: Jetix Europe is teaming up with W!LDBRAIN on a short-form series that will premiere on its new-look websites across Europe in early 2009. W!LDBRAIN’s Team Smithereen will be the first new short-form series that Jetix will debut …

MUNICH, October 14: Beat the Star, the British version of SevenOne International’s hit format Beat Your Host!, will have another ten episodes aired in prime time on ITV1. As in the first season, each episode will feature contestants challenging different …

LONDON, October 14: HIT Entertainment’s preschool property Thomas & Friends will make its debut on Chinese television on CCTV, with a plan in place for consumer products to follow. The distribution agreement marks the company’s first venture into China. Alongside …

CANNES, October 14: Three new senior executives have joined the international team at Rainbow Media Holdings, which is representing the Sundance Channel for the first time at MIPCOM. Ed Palluth, an industry veteran and long-time Rainbow Media executive, has been …

CANNES, October 14: Leon, TV-Loonland’s latest CGI series, has been presold to CBBC, which has also signed up for the catch-up rights to the 52×3-minute series. The show, a co-production of TV-Loonland, Studio Hari and France 3, premiered at MIPCOM …

SINGAPORE, October 14: The international European news network euronews will be available in Singapore on SingTel’s mio TV from October 15 in four different languages: English, French, German and Italian. The multilingual channel provides international news from a European perspective. …

CANNES, October 14: Japanese public broadcaster NHK, which unveiled its documentary development slate to its key partners last night, has entered into a co-production deal with NHNZ for the 6×1-hour series Weird Edens. In a presentation at MIPCOM, NHK stressed …

MUNICH/CANNES, October 14: Second Chance, a new telenovela produced by Alma Productions for France’s TF1, will have 180 episodes on offer at MIPCOM from Bavaria Media. Shot in HD, the daily half-hour series has a cast of some 30 recurring …

CANNES, October 14: NBC Universal International Television Distribution has licensed almost 1,000 hours of content to Chello Zone, including 120-plus movies and 800 hours of reality programming. The content acquired will air on Chello Zone’s branded channels around the world. …

NEW YORK/COLOGNE, October 14: RUSH, VOOM HD Networks’ 24-hour linear channel dedicated to extreme sports, has joined the offerings of European digital platform Eutelsat’s KabelKiosk, a 100-channel digital satellite service available to operators in Germany, Austria, Switzerland, Luxemburg and Denmark. …