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SYDNEY, February 12: Beyond has inked a co-production agreement for an additional 13 half-hour episodes of the animated children’s property Milly, Molly. The series is a co-production between Pacific & Beyond, Scrawl Studios and Milly Molly Holdings, with the participation …

NEW YORK, February 12: NBC Universal announced that Oxygen, its newly acquired female-targeted network, will serve as an additional platform to provide significant weekday coverage of the 2008 Beijing Olympic Games. As previously announced, NBC Universal will present more than …

OTTAWA/VANCOUVER, February 12: Amberwood Productions has inked a co-production agreement with Canadian comic book publisher Arcana Studios to develop and produce a television series titled Ralph Filmore: Paranormal Investigator. The series will be a 2-D digitally animated comedy for kids …

ATLANTA/SAN FRANCISCO, February 12: Turner Broadcasting has acquired the broadcast rights to the CG-animated series Star Wars: The Clone Wars, from creator George Lucas, and is set to premiere the show this fall in the U.S. on Cartoon Network, followed …

ATLANTA, February 12: Cartoon Network Enterprises (CNE) has secured four new merchandising partners for its Emmy Award-winning series Foster’s Home for Imaginary Friends: Horizon Imports, Boston America, Freeze and Design International Group. Horizon Imports has inked a multi-year agreement to …

PARIS, February 12: Alex Gibney, an Oscar-nominated American scriptwriter, director and producer, will deliver the keynote speech, titled “The Power of Documentary,” at this year’s MIPDOC on Sunday, April 6. Gibney is involved with two Oscar-nominated documentary films: Taxi to …

LOS ANGELES, February 12: Adness Entertainment has appointed new licensees in Mexico for its character-based franchise Crack & Bonky, including a deal with Televisa for mobile content and promotions. Televisa will distribute short animated clips and wallpaper images through the …

TORONTO, February 11: The Canadian pay-TV network Super Channel has picked up the independent feature-length environmental documentary Garbage! The Revolution Starts at Home, from filmmaker Andrew Nisker. Garbage! The Revolution Starts at Home is set to air on Sunday, March …

LONDON, February 11: Mercury Media has teamed up with the British newspaper The Independent for the launch of its new joiningthedots.tv (JTD) service, which will offer a range of independent documentaries over broadband. The partnership will create an independent online …

SINGAPORE, February 11: activeTV has optioned the format rights to the hit BBC celebrity ancestry series Who Do You Think You Are? from British independent outfit Wall to Wall. The series was recently commissioned for a fifth season in the …