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MUNICH, July 15: Telepool has acquired the exclusive TV and home-entertainment rights, including IPTV and VOD, for Big and Small from Studio100 Media, and will also serve as the agent for the property’s licensing rights in Germany, Austria and Switzerland. …

SÃO PAULO, July 15: Globo TV International has re-signed a commercial agreement with Televisora de Costa Rica, which sees some 2,000 hours of TV Globo content aired throughout the country via Teletica. TV Globo and Teletica have maintained a successful …

PARIS, July 14: Megafilms.net has closed a range of deals for its preschool stop-motion series Ribbit’s Riddles, including agreements in Germany, Japan and Scandinavia. MICO picked up the free-TV and home-video rights for NHK in Japan, while NDR took on …

LONDON, July 14: The DCD Media-owned September Films beat out four other British independent producers for the rights to produce Pregnant Man, an hour-long documentary that has been acquired by Channel 4 in the U.K. and Discovery in the U.S. …

ATLANTA, July 14: The National Basketball Association (NBA) and Cartoon Network Enterprises (CNE) have teamed up to create a joint consumer products and promotion campaign based on the hit series Ben 10: Alien Force. A youth apparel line, which integrates …

LOS ANGELES, July 14: Crash, a new 13-episode drama inspired by the Academy Award-winning best motion picture of 2006, will premiere on October 17 on Starz. Set in Los Angeles, Crash, which will air weekly at 10 p.m., explores social …

LONDON, July 14: Sony Computer Entertainment and Sky have unveiled Go!View, a VOD service for PlayStation Portable (PSP) in the U.K. and Ireland, featuring content from Disney-ABC-ESPN Television, BBC Worldwide and NBC Universal, among others. Go!View allows PSP users to …

LOS ANGELES, July 14: The Entertainment Industry Foundation (EIF) has brought together six of Hollywood’s big-name studios for an anti-smoking public-service announcement that will be placed on millions of youth-rated DVDs. Paramount Pictures, Sony Pictures Entertainment, Twentieth Century Fox, Universal …

LONDON, July 14: James Murdoch has risen to the number two spot on The Guardian’s Media 100 power rankings, passing his father, Rupert Murdoch, in the number five spot. Google founders Sergey Brin and Larry Page sit on top of …

NEW YORK, July 14: Following its successful run on WorldScreen.com and Brightcove, World Screen’s video report on the latest developments in the Central and Eastern European media markets is now available on a range of other content sites, including YouTube, …