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MANILA, June 26: The Philippines’ Intellectual Property Office (IPO) has served its first-ever temporary restraining order against a local cable operator for copyright infringement. According to the Cable & Satellite Broadcasting Association of Asia (CASBAA), the order was served against …

NEW YORK, June 26: NBC has reached an undisclosed settlement with the family of a man who committed suicide after being confronted by camera crews for the Dateline strand To Catch a Predator. Last year, the family of Louis William …

LONDON, June 26: In order to ramp up its slate of product from independent producers, ITV Worldwide announced today that it has tripled its development and acquisition fund. Peter Iacono, the president and managing director of ITV Worldwide, made the …

DUBLIN, June 25: A raft of new broadcasters have signed on for Monster Distributes’ animated non-dialogue series Gazoon, including NRK in Norway, Cartoon Network in Japan and TV2 in Denmark, among others. Further sales for the series include YLE in …

TORONTO/LOS ANGELES, June 25: Oasis International has signed an 11-title deal with Hallmark International for the U.K., Poland, Hungary, Turkey, Benelux and feeds in the Middle East and Russia. Included in the deal are the Lifetime/CTV movie Murder on Her …

LONDON, June 25: Channel 4 International (C4i), part of the Digital Rights Group, has sold a host of documentary programming to Belgian broadcaster VRT, as part of a continuing output deal. The package includes My Boyfriend the Sex Tourist, Teenage …

TORONTO, June 25: Family Channel in Canada has commissioned a third season of 26×11-minute episodes of the preschool series Franny’s Feet from DECODE Entertainment. The series, which follows the adventures of a little girl and her magical shoes, was recently …

LONDON, June 25: FremantleMedia Enterprises (FME), in conjunction with its production and broadcast partners, has presented the first-look lineup for Spectacle: Elvis Costello with…, a new talk/music series slated to premiere later this year. Sir Elton John, Tony Bennett, Lou …

LONDON, June 25: Turner Broadcasting in the U.K. and MySpace have sealed a deal for the male-skewing channel Nuts TV and the adult animation brand Adult Swim to have dedicated content channels on the social-networking site’s video platform, MySpaceTV. Launched …

LONDON, June 25: ALL3MEDIA International’s hit format Cash Cab—which recently received a Daytime Emmy for outstanding game show for its Discovery Channel U.S. version—has been picked up for local adaptation by UTV in India. The Indian edition, with 13 episodes …