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TORONTO, June 24: Peace Point Entertainment Group is in production on the second season of Fresh with Anna Olson, which will premiere on Food Network Canada in spring 2009. The 26×30-minute series is once again being shot at Olson’s home …

EDMONTON, June 24: In a deal brokered by IMG Entertainment, Super Channel in Canada is set to air the world premiere of the offbeat comedy Sordid Lives: The Series. The 12×22-minute show, which begins airing on SC3 on July 1, …

MILAN, June 24: Atlantyca Entertainment has launched its newly established content-publishing division, securing its first licensing deal with Taffy Entertainment to produce novels loosely based on the animated series Code Lyoko. Atlantyca will create a series of four books for …

OTTAWA, June 24: Russian Film Company has acquired all TV and DVD rights for 39 half hours of The Secret World of Benjamin Bear from Amberwood Entertainment for Russia and the CIS. The series was commissioned by Canada’s Family Channel, …

SÃO PAULO, June 24: Globo TV International has licensed the comedy series The Cleaning Lady to Malaysia’s Media Prima Berhad, which operates the country’s leading terrestrial network, TV3, as well as 8TV, ntv7 and TV9. Globo has been ramping up …

LOS ANGELES, June 24: Fox Reality Channel will launch a new celebrity competition series, Gimme My Reality Show!, on October 11, directly following the 2008 Fox Reality Channel Really Awards. The series features celebrity reality stars competing in a variety …

NEW YORK, June 24: ImaginAsian TV (iaTV), a U.S.-based network dedicated to Asian pop culture, will showcase a range of original comedy, reality, anime and mixed martial arts programming in its 2008/09 prime-time schedule, including series and movies from Sony …

NEW YORK, June 24: Beginning this weekend, veteran NBC News anchor Tom Brokaw will take over as moderator of Meet the Press for the remainder of the 2008 presidential campaign, following the sudden death of Tim Russert on June 13. …

NEW YORK, June 24: Licensing International Expo’s final event in New York this month—it moves to Las Vegas in 2009—attracted some 25,000 executives from 82 countries, on par with 2007’s record attendance. The annual convention for the licensing and merchandising …

NICOSIA, June 24: HBO has teamed up with Israel’s Jasmine Group to launch a subscription video-on-demand service on Cyprus’s PrimeTV. PrimeTV is operated by Cyprus’s biggest privately owned telco, PrimeTel, the first company in this market to offer triple-play services. …