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ATLANTA, August 28: A new animated adventure series from PorchLight Entertainment, The Secret Saturdays, will premiere this fall on Cartoon Network with 26 episodes. In the series, Doc, Drew and Zak Saturday are a family of world-saving adventure scientists called …

LONDON, August 28: DCD Media has signed an agreement that will increase the revenues and profits of its wholly-owned television distribution arm, which has been re-branded as DCD Rights. DCD Right has agreed to an arrangement that grants it access …

LONDON/AMSTERDAM, August 28: Scotland-based PBF International has secured from Jetix Consumer Products (JCP) the Italian and U.K. license for a new range of indoor and outdoor footwear for the animated series Pucca. As a new Pucca licensee, PBF International will …

NEW YORK, August 28: 4Kids Entertainment will premiere at MIPCOM 26 new half-hour episodes of Dinosaur King, which will be supported with a video game, trading cards and a toy line expected to roll out in spring 2009. In the …

NEW YORK, August 28: No End in Sight, the Oscar-nominated documentary from director Charles Ferguson about the Iraq war, will be available in its entirety on YouTube from September 1 through the presidential election on November 4. The film will …

HOLLYWOOD, August 28: Rain of Madness, DreamWorks Pictures’ companion piece to the hit summer feature Tropic Thunder, is now available for download exclusively on the iTunes Store. Rain of Madness, which stars Jay Baruchel, Jack Black, Steve Coogan, Robert Downey …

BERLIN, August 28: The classic films Pinocchio, Beauty and the Beast, Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, Fantasia and Fantasia 2000 have been added to Walt Disney Studios Home Entertainment’s Platinum Collection, to be released on DVD and for the …

BURBANK, August 28: The couples-based reality competition Here Come the Newlyweds will return to ABC Television Network for a second season. In eight episodes, nine just-married couples face a variety of mental and physical challenges that will test the love …

BURBANK, August 27: Three dramas—Castle, Cupid and The Unusuals—and two comedies, Better Off Ted and Single with Parents, will join ABC’s lineup of new series for 2008/2009. Castles is a comedic crime procedural about a mystery novelist, Nick Castle, who …

LONDON/HILVERSUM, August 27: Tom Toumazis is leaving his post as the managing director of Disney-ABC-ESPN Television for Europe, the Middle East, Africa and Canada to join Endemol, where he is tasked with further expanding the company’s distribution business. Joining Endemol …