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CANNES, April 8: A&E Television Networks (AETN) and ZDF Enterprises have extended their current multifaceted programming and co-production deal for three years. The terms call for ZDF Enterprises to acquire non-fiction programming from AETN’s History catalogue for ZDF’s history-oriented programming …

LONDON, April 8: Fireworks International has made a number of appointments in an expansion of its sales operations in Toronto and London, including adding two new sales directors for its factual catalogue. Smiljka Baljozovic and Kathryn Kozanczyn join Fireworks’ Toronto-based …

CANNES, April 8: Disney-ABC International Television has licensed its Emmy Award-winning format The Amazing Race to Reshet in Israel, for a local version to be produced across Asia later this year. The new version will see contestants from Israel divided …

BURBANK/HONG KONG, April 8: Anna Woo has been promoted to the role of VP of business operations and finance for Disney Channel and Disney-ABC International Television for the Asia Pacific, based in Hong Kong. In her new role, Woo is …

NEW YORK, April 7: News Corporation has acquired additional shares in German pay-TV giant Premiere, taking its stake in the company to 22.7 percent. In January, News Corp. shelled out 287 million euros for 14.58 percent of Premiere, upping it …

CANNES, April 7: DECODE Entertainment has inked an agreement with Singapore’s Scrawl Studios for a new animated series, tentatively titled RPG High. The 52×11-minute series, aimed at 8- to 12-year-olds, will use 2-D animation with 3-D sequences, in a style …

CANNES, April 7: Phoenix Satellite Television’s Liu Changle and Law & Order creator Dick Wolf are to receive the International Academy of Television Arts & Sciences’ Directorate Award and Founders Award, respectively, at the International Emmy Awards gala on November …

CANNES, April 7: Chorion has secured a deal with Five in the U.K. for its preschool series Olivia, based on the bestselling book property, and has also closed a number of new international presales. Olivia will broadcast as part of …

CANNES, April 7: On the first day of MIPTV in Cannes today, Disney-ABC International Television announced several deals, including the extension of an agreement with ProSiebenSat.1 Group and the production of Colombian versions of Grey’s Anatomy and Brothers & Sisters. …

CANNES, April 7: Canada’s Amberwood Productions has concluded a co-production agreement with Belgium’s Studio100 on a new animated series, Super Mega Hyper Pets. The series, targeted at 4- to 6-year-olds, follows the adventures of 8-year-old Timmy Jones and his three …