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NEW YORK, September 4: At MIPCOM, 4Kids Entertainment will be showcasing the latest extension of its hit Yu-Gi-Oh! brand, Yu-Gi-Oh! 5Ds, which headlines its roster of kids’ programming for the market. Yu-Gi-Oh! 5Ds, where 5Ds stands for “five dragons,” follows …

COPENHAGEN, September 3: Nordisk Film TV World has secured the exclusive rights to distribute all existing and future formats from TV2 and TV2 networks, including Celebrity Devil Race, which just premiered in its third season to record numbers for the …

MONTREAL, September 3: Polivideo has entered an agreement to represent Distraction’s formats, ready-to-air catalogue and clip library in Italy and other Italian-speaking regions. The move is aimed to expand Distraction’s business in Italy, which in the past year has included …

NEW YORK, September 3: Hamp Hampton, the CEO of FitzRoy Media, reveals to World Screen Newsflash plans for new animated content based on the 35-year-old comic-strip Heathcliff, in conjunction with Peter Gallagher, the nephew of the creator of the orange …

NEW YORK, September 3: 4Kids Entertainment has unveiled its lineup of fall programs, which includes new series such as Chaotic: M’arrillian Invasion for its FOX block and Yu-Gi-Oh! 5D’s and Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Back to the Sewer for its …

LOS ANGELES, September 3: MGM Networks has clocked up a range of new carriage deals in Eastern Europe, bringing the MGM Channel to Serbia, Macedonia and Albania. The new deals build on the channel’s presence in Russia, Poland, Hungary, Romania, …

SINGAPORE, September 3: ESPN STAR Sports (ESS) has reached a five-year deal with Formula One Management for the exclusive rights to broadcast the FIA Formula One World Championship across multiple platforms in 24 Asian markets. The rights would cover ESS’s …

LONDON, September 3: Fireworks International has named Paul Lewis to the newly created position of VP of development, based in Los Angeles, to lead the acquisition and development of new scripted and non-scripted programming. Lewis was previously the director of …

NEW YORK, September 3: Rupert Murdoch, the chairman and CEO of News Corporation, brokered a “tentative truce” between presidential candidate Barack Obama and the Fox News network, columnist Michael Wolff reveals in this month’s Vanity Fair. Wolff writes a regular …

HARRINGTON PARK, September 3: Alfred Haber Distribution, Inc. (AHDI) has been appointed as the exclusive international distributor for the 15th annual Screen Actors Guild (SAG) Awards, which will air live on the TNT and TBS Television Networks in the U.S. …