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NEW YORK, November 26: The board of directors at the International Academy of Television Arts & Sciences has re-elected Bruce Paisner as its president and CEO for an additional two-year term. Paisner, who is also president of Hearst Entertainment, has …

ALVISO, November 26: TiVo will launch its Series2 Dual Tuner (DT) DVR into the Canadian market in early December. The device will be available at major Canadian retail stores including Best Buy, The Brick, London Drug and Future Shop, but …

LONDON, November 26: Discovery Networks UK will be launching DMAX, a 24-hour, male-skewing entertainment channel, on January 8, 2008. Aimed primarily at men 25 to 44 years old, DMAX will offer a variety of programming that includes Discovery documentaries, scripted …

TEL AVIV, November 26: Dori Media Group (DMG) has purchased a 75-percent stake in Paran Productions for $1.6 million and 75,000 DMG share options. Paran Productions owns a 50-percent stake in Darset Productions, Israel’s largest producer of locally originated telenovelas, …

TORONTO, November 26: Peace Arch Entertainment Group Inc. has announced that Mara Di Pasquale, the company’s chief financial officer, has resigned as a director of the company. Di Pasquale’s resignation from the Board was prompted by the appointment of Jeff …

SINGAPORE, November 26: Singapore’s Upside Down Concepts and LIC Australia have signed a co-production agreement at the Asia Factual Forum for a slate of 20 hours of documentary programming for the international television market, worth $4 million. Under the Memorandum …

MUNICH, November 26: SevenOne International has sold its Sat 1. telenovela That’s Life to Ukrainian network ICTV, which is set to begin airing tomorrow. The telenovela will air tomorrow under the title Kokhannia v Berlini (Love in Berlin) in an …

BARCELONA, November 26: Imira Entertainment, formerly known as Icon Animation, has closed a series of sales in Spain for its kids’ programming library. Imira Entertainment has partnered with ZDF Enterprises to place two of its shows on Spanish public broadcaster …

LONDON, November 26: Entertainment Rights (ER) has licensed the children’s property Toopy & Binoo to numerous major broadcasters. ER has sold this 2-D animated preschool series about Toopy, a loveable mouse, and Binoo, a tiny cat, who are inseparable friends …

TAIWAN/HONG KONG, November 26: STAR has partnered with Hong Kong-based Artificial Life to develop and distribute 15 games for mobile phones based on the Taiwanese teenage pop groups Lollipop and Mei Mei. The games are available for download on Artificial …