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LONDON, July 11: Outright Distribution has completed deals with TV Ontario and W Network in Canada for several factual productions. TV Ontario has purchased Admission Impossible, season three of Born to Be Different, Mummy Diaries and My New Home, all …

LOS ANGELES, July 11: TLC will add two new series—Hope For Your Home and Over Designed—to its popular Saturday night home-themed programming block. Hope For Your Home, which will premiere August 9 at 8:30 p.m., helps homeowners find solutions to …

TORONTO, July 11: Breakthrough Films & Television has begun production on a new ten-episode documentary about the greatest tank battles in history for History Television in Canada. Greatest Tank Battles uses CGI and documentary footage shot at actual battlefields to …

BEVERLY HILLS, July 11: Animal Planet is teaming with Go Go Luckey Entertainment, the production house behind MTV’s Laguna Beach, for two new series: Creature, premiering in the fall, and Jockeys, set to launch in January 2009. Announcing the deal …

ENGLEWOOD, July 11: DISH Network plans to launch 17 new national high-definition channels, bringing its total offering to more than 100 HD services, five months ahead of its target date for passing that milestone. The new HD channels include ActionMax …

SILVER SPRING, July 11: This October, Discovery Channel in the U.S. will premiere Iditarod, a six-part original series from Original Productions examining the famed sled dog race. The series follows participants of the 1,150-mile Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race from …

WINNIPEG, July 11: Despite a 15-percent rise in revenues to C$851.8 million for the third quarter, Canwest Global Communications has posted a loss of C$28.4 million, versus the C$8.4 million profit in the year-ago period, as a result of a …

NEW YORK, July 11: Time Warner Cable has reached a deal to sell off certain “non-core” cable systems to Windjammer Communications, a venture of MAST Capital Management and Communication Construction Services (CCS). The systems serve about 80,000 basic video subscribers …

LONDON, July 11: Multichannel TV penetration in the Middle East and North Africa is expected to reach 72 percent by 2013, according to a new report by Informa Telecoms & Media, up from 61 percent this year. That growth, which …

LOS ANGELES, July 11: The Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers (AMPTP) says that the Screen Actors Guild (SAG) has refused to accept its latest offer, “unreasonably” expecting to secure more out of the new contract. Stressing that that …