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CULVER CITY/HILVERSUM, June 5: Sony Pictures Entertainment (SPE) has completed its acquisition of the Dutch formats and interactive entertainment outfit 2waytraffic. SPE first made its offer to acquire 2waytraffic for £114.3 million in March. The deal is part of SPE’s …

MADRID, June 5: Imagina International Sales (ISS) will head to DISCOP with a catalogue of documentaries, feature films and series, including Los hombres de paco (Paco’s Men), which Endemol Italy has just picked up the format rights for. Endemol Italy …

BRUSSELS, June 5: The European Commission has withdrawn its case against Sweden at the European Court of Justice after the country’s government abolished Boxer’s exclusivity on digital terrestrial broadcasting services. The Commission referred Sweden to the Court of Justice in …

WASHINGTON, D.C., June 5: In 2009, PBS will premiere “The State of the Planet’s Oceans,” the next episode in Screenscope’s environmental series Journey to Planet Earth, with Matt Damon returning as the on-camera host/narrator. Produced by Emmy Award-winning filmmakers Hal …

MUNICH, June 5: The ProSiebenSat.1 Group has expanded its online portfolio with the acquisition of 100 percent of Feeem Media, which operates the female-targeted content portal Fem.com. Dr. Marcus Englert, a member of the executive board of ProSiebenSat.1 for new …

LONDON, June 5: Sally Miles, the founder and former chief of iD Distribution—today part of the Digital Rights Group—has set up a new venture, Passion Distribution. Miles launched iD in 2004 with venture capital backers Ingenious, who chose to consolidate …

BURBANK/LONDON, June 5: More than 400 hours of content from Warner Bros. International Television Distribution (WBITD) will be made available on an on-demand basis to subscribers of Tiscali TV in the U.K. via a new branded service. Warner TV will …

LONDON, June 5: Zig Zag Productions has been commissioned by Channel 4 to produce a British version of the game-show format Relentless, due to air this fall. Relentless marks Zig Zag’s first game show for Channel 4 and signals the …

WASHINGTON, June 5: A number of independently owned cable networks, including WealthTV and HDNet, are petitioning the Federal Communications Commission to support a more competitive pay-TV programming market as they battle to secure carriage on major U.S. platforms. Several channels …

LONDON, June 5: Chapman Entertainment, behind the preschool stop-frame animation series Fifi and the Flowertots and Roary the Racing Car, is setting up its own production studio, which will become fully operational in July. The studio will be based in …