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MIAMI, May 8: Nickelodeon Latin America has completed a deal with Sony Pictures Television International (SPTI) to co-produce Isa TKM (Te Quiero Mucho), its first original telenovela, to be produced in Venezuela. The novela will be produced in Spanish and …

ATLANTA, May 8: The world-premiere trailer for the upcoming CG-animated movie Star Wars: The Clone Wars will debut today across five Turner networks simultaneously. At 7:58 p.m. in all U.S. time zones, a two-minute preview of the new animated adventure …

LOS ANGELES, May 8: Spike TV has revealed a slate of male-skewing, non-scripted original pilots, which includes the new docu-series River Men, centered on the work of the men who tow barges through the Mississippi River. The development slate also …

NEW YORK/AGOURA HILLS, May 8: Marvel Animation, a division of Marvel Entertainment, will produce a new 26×30-minute animated series, Marvel Super Hero Squad, for premiere in 2009. The broadcast partner for the new series has not been announced. Marvel Super …

LONDON/MOSCOW, May 8: Zodiak Television’s Russian business development unit, Zodiak Vostok, has completed a format deal with First Channel Russia for a new season of Stars on Stage. The first season of the Russian version of the celebrity-based format, called …

SINGAPORE, May 8: ESPN STAR Sports (ESS) has inked a deal with Imagine OmniMedia, the producer of The Contender Asia, to jointly develop, produce and broadcast Sport*Star Football, a global reality football entertainment series, in Asia. The series will be …

NEW YORK, May 8: Net profit at News Corporation for the third quarter soared from $871 million to $2.7 billion, thanks to a one-time $1.7 billion tax-free gain from its DIRECTV asset swap with Liberty Media. The conglomerate posted quarterly …

MUNICH, May 8: Studio100 Media has secured a partnership to manage the worldwide distribution rights (excluding North and South America and the U.K.) for three CBBC programs: The Slammer, Trapped and Beat the Boss. The Slammer is a comedic series, …

GÜTERSLOH, May 8: Bertelsmann posted a 35 million euros profit for the first quarter of 2008, versus a 70 million euros loss this time last year, on slightly diminished revenues of 4.2 billion euros. The company also recorded a 9.6-percent …

LOS ANGELES, May 8: BabyFirstTV, which recently scored a deal to license some of its baby- and toddler-targeted content to Shanghai Media Group’s BesTV IPTV platform in China, has inked a carriage deal with Time Warner Cable in the U.S. …