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LONDON, July 10: Top Up TV, which provides premium content on the British DTT service Freeview, has added Warner Bros.’s branded VOD service, delivering series such as ER and Smallville, among others, to its slate of offerings. The deal with …

LONDON, July 9: Laurence Dawkin-Jones is leaving UKTV to serve as the U.K. managing director of NBC Universal’s global networks division, starting in the fall. In this newly created position based in London, Dawkin-Jones will be responsible for setting the …

WASHINGTON, D.C., July 9: A new special for National Geographic Channel chronicling four months in the lives of gang members in South Central, Los Angeles, is slated to air this month. L.A. Gang Wars will air at 9 p.m. on …

MIAMI, July 9: Televisa International is offering up two productions from the Argentinean producer Pol-Ka: My Love for You (Por amor a vos) and Nobody’s Women I (Mujeres de nadie I). My Love for You is a 230×1-hour novela focused …

WASHINGTON, D.C., July 9: U.S. cable outlet AmericanLife TV Network is featuring the original 1960s Batman series this month in the run-up to the release of the much anticipated new feature film with Christian Bale and Heath Ledger, The Dark …

SYDNEY, July 9: The History Channel U.K., TV2 Norway and TV4 Fakta Sweden and Finland have all picked up the HD series Jetstream from Beyond Distribution, which launched the factual property at MIPTV. The show chronicles the trials of eight …

OTTAWA, July 9: Nickelodeon’s Brown Johnson and Robot Chicken’s Seth Green and Matt Senreich will deliver keynote speeches at the Television Animation Conference (TAC), taking place in Ottawa, Canada, September 17 and 18. Alongside the well-known Ottawa International Animation Festival—set …

LONDON, July 9: Parthenon Entertainment has made its first foray into the arena of feature-film finance and distribution, aligning with Germany’s NDR Naturfilm for two family-friendly wildlife films. Knut and His Friends, produced by DocFilm and directed by Michael Johnson …

LONDON, July 9: BBC Worldwide’s footage-sales division, BBC Motion Gallery, has inked a deal for the video archives of the youth charity The Prince’s Trust, granting it the rights to represent content from events such as Party in the Park …

LOS ANGELES, July 9: Cabin in the Woods, a spec script from Joss Whedon—the creator of FOX’s upcoming Dollhouse—and Lost writer and producer Drew Goddard, has been acquired and greenlit for production by MGM. The feature—the first to get the …