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TORONTO, June 16: Peace Arch Entertainment Group has concluded ten licensing agreements in eight territories on 17 motion pictures and television series, including a broadcast deal with GloboSat/Globo for five dramas. The new licensing agreements were inked with distributors in …

LONDON, June 16: The MediaGuardian Edinburgh International Television Festival (MGEITF) has unveiled the shortlist for the seventh annual Channel of the Year awards, which will be announced on Saturday, August 23. The six channels nominated in the Best Non Terrestrial …

SEATTLE, June 16: CreateSpace, part of the Amazon.com group of companies, has reached an agreement with HBO Video to make a selection of documentaries from HBO and Cinemax available for purchase online through its DVD on Demand service. The service …

HONG KONG, June 16: Channel [V] International has signed an exclusive deal to premiere the new reality series Paris Hilton’s My New BFF, which follows the heiress as she searches for a new gal pal, shortly after its U.S. debut …

MUMBAI, June 16: Taj TV’s Ten Sports has secured the exclusive broadcast rights through 2014 to more than 450 hours of first-run content from World Wrestling Entertainment (WWE) in the Indian sub-continent. WWE content presented on Ten Sports across India, …

LAS VEGAS, June 13: Upper Deck Entertainment (UDE) has named Playmates Toys as the master toy licensee for the action-adventure animated series Huntik: Secrets & Seekers. Playmates Toys will debut its Huntik: Secrets & Seekers toy line in fall 2009. …

LONDON, June 13: Adrian Lester returns to the role of Mickey “Bricks” Stone for the fifth season of the BBC con drama Hustle, which is slated to premiere next year. The fifth season of Hustle will start filming in and …

TORONTO, June 13: Smokebomb, Shaftesbury Films’ recently acquired digital-media division, has won the C$10,000 Bell Broadcast and New Media Fund iPitch Development Prize at the Banff World Television Festival for Overruledtv.com, a companion website to the upcoming tween comedy series …

LONDON, June 13: ALL3MEDIA International has closed a raft of deals for the entertainment format Village on a Diet, which features a community coming together to commit to leading a healthier lifestyle. Options for the format have been secured with …

LONDON, June 13: UKTV Gold has commissioned IMG Media’s Tiger Aspect to produce Blackadder Exclusive: The Whole Rotten Saga and Blackadder’s Most Cunning Moments, two specials providing a behind-the-scenes look at the BAFTA-winning comedy series Blackadder, which was on the …