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LOS ANGELES, March 17: Marvel Studios, a subsidiary of Marvel Entertainment, has scored a deal with News Corporation’s FX, allowing the basic-cable network to air five Marvel self-produced features, including the upcoming The Iron Man. This marks Marvel Studios’ first …

LONDON, March 17: IMG Media’s Darlow Smithson Productions has been commissioned by BBC One to produce Rutka’s Diary, a 40-minute documentary about a young Polish girl who was murdered at Auschwitz in 1943. In 2005, the school notebook of Rutka …

WASHINGTON, D.C./LONDON, March 17: Smithsonian Channel has commissioned The True Story, a new five-hour co-production from Blink Films and Five. The series investigates the real people and events behind some of the most popular films and film characters of our …

VIENNA, March 17: Arte France has picked up the crime-comedy series Four Women and a Funeral from Austria’s ORF. ORF has already licensed the series to Bosnia, Bulgaria, Ukraine, Russia, Slovenia and Switzerland. Four Women and a Funeral is a …

TORONTO, March 17: OUTtv, the Canadian 24/7 cable channel dedicated to gay and lesbian content, has secured a programming and supply deal with here! Network in the U.S. to produce a number of new television series that will air on …

BUENOS AIRES, March 17: Telefe International announced that Reyes del juego, the Russian version of its fiction format Pretenders, has successfully debuted on CTC. Reyes del juego currently airs from Monday through Thursday at 9 p.m. The debut of Reyes …

HONG KONG, March 17: Celestial Pictures will release Behind the Yellow Line, from its Shaw Brothers film library, in the Blu-ray high-definition DVD format this April. This release marks the first of Celestial’s Shaw Brothers films to be launched in …

SYDNEY, March 17: VMMA Belgium has picked up 240 half-hour episodes of Out of the Blue, a drama series produced by Southern Star Entertainment in association with the BBC. The series is set in the beach resort of Manly, Australia, …

VANCOUVER, March 17: Nerd Corps Entertainment’s 3-D animated series Storm Hawks has been picked up by the U.K.-based free-to-air broadcaster GMTV. The 52×30-minute series will launch mid-March, starting with back-to-back episodes each weekday morning on GMTV’s Action Stations block and …

LONDON, March 17: News Corporation has appointed Matthew Anderson as the group director of strategy and corporate affairs for Europe and Asia, effective April 15. In his new role, Anderson will pursue a wide remit supporting the operations of the …