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LONDON, June 13: IMG Entertainment has appointed Anna Vivian to the newly created role of VP of emerging markets. Working under Mark Young, IMG Entertainment’s senior VP of entertainment sales and acquisitions worldwide, Vivian will be charged with driving factual …

BURBANK, June 13: Nancy Kanter has been promoted to senior VP of Playhouse Disney Worldwide, responsible for the preschool channel’s creative content on a global basis. Kanter was most recently the senior VP of programming at Playhouse Disney U.S. In …

SEOUL, June 13: Korean animation outfit Daewon Media has entered into an agreement with Japanese book publisher Kodansha to develop an animated TV series based on the comic Gon, featuring a small dinosaur with unusual power and speed. Gon was …

LONDON, June 13: Passion Distribution, a venture recently launched by former iD Distribution chief Sally Miles, has inked an exclusive deal with World of Wonder to represent all of its programming and formats. Passion will be distributing World of Wonder’s …

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 …

NEW YORK, June 12: Lightworks Program Distribution incorporating Sandra Carter Global is set to introduce a range of new entertainment, biography and documentary programming to buyers at this year’s DISCOP. Among the entertainment series offered at the market are Out …

LONDON, June 12: DIRECTV is set to launch a four-hour block of BabyTV, the 24/7 network for infants and toddlers under 3, for subscribers in Argentina, Chile, Colombia, Ecuador, Venezuela, Peru and Central America. Deals are already in place in …

SÃO PAULO, June 12: Globo TV International has sold the telenovela Seven Sins into 13 countries, with channels in Argentina, Mozambique, and Ecuador, among others, securing the broadcast rights to the series. The telenovela is slated to debut in six …