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NEW YORK, August 27: The animated preschool series The Wumblers will make its Spanish-language debut in October on ¡Sorpresa! The English-language series, which premiered on the Christian-themed Trinity Broadcasting Network (TBN) in September 2007, promotes values like tolerance, diversity and …

LONDON, August 27: Italian broadcaster Mediaset has acquired several human-interest documentaries from C4i as part of an ongoing output deal. New titles acquired for screening later this year on Italia Uno include The Real Superhumans, a feature-length documentary about real …

LONDON, August 27: Sally Miles’ Passion Distribution and Figure 8 Productions have teamed up to launch the film Two Sisters: One Heart at MIPCOM, building on the companies’ existing relationship that includes the hit TLC series Jon & Kate Plus …

TORONTO/LONDON, August 27: DECODE Enterprises has completed several international sales for Halifax Film’s preschool series Bo on the GO!, which has been commissioned for a third season by CBC in Canada. Rai Sat has picked up season one, while Disney …

LONDON/AMSTERDAM, August 27: Classic children’s programming from Jetix Europe is now available for download on the iTunes Store in the U.K. iTunes customers can download episodes of Jetix cartoon series, including Sonic X, Iron Man and The Incredible Hulk. More …

LONDON, August 27: Fox International Channels in Italy has acquired a collection of titles from Outright Distribution, including properties from within the Shed Media Group as well as from Touch Productions, Ricochet, Twenty Twenty, Screentime and Wall to Wall. The …

NEW YORK, August 27: Somebodies, the new original scripted series for BET based on the film of the same name, will make its debut on September 9 at 10:30 p.m. with two back-to-back, half-hour episodes. The single-camera comedy features an …

NEW YORK, August 27: Lifetime Networks has purchased ParentsClick Network, a social network and digital media technology outfit, bolstering community functions for all the company’s digital properties, including mylifetime.com and LMN.tv. As its flagship property, ParentsClick Network created and operates …

LONDON, August 27: Universal Pictures International Entertainment (UPIE) has set a release date of October 13 for The Incredible Hulk on DVD and Blu-ray, marking the studio’s first international debut of a new-release feature film in the Blu-ray format. UPIE’s …

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 …