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LOS ANGELES, January 29: Twentieth Century Fox Television Distribution has inked a multi-year agreement with Allcaro Entertainment to air its stable of feature films on Canadian pay-TV network Super Channel. Fox titles such as Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silver …

SANTA MONICA, January 29: Lionsgate has entered into a three-year programming deal with Viasat Broadcasting covering series, mini-series and TV movies for broadcast in Sweden, Norway, Denmark and Slovenia, including the Golden Globe-winning Mad Men. The deal covers at least …

MUNICH/LONDON, January 28: Sony Pictures Television International (SPTI) and ProSiebenSat.1 Group have signed a multi-year volume deal for current and library feature films and TV shows for the broadcasting group’s free-to-air channels in Germany, including The Tudors. The deal includes …

DUBLIN, January 29: RTE will be utilizing some creative scheduling with its stockpile of American dramas to get it through the next few months, according to Dermot Horan, the Irish broadcaster’s director of broadcast and acquisitions. “We’re lucky in a …

LOS ANGELES/NEW YORK, January 29: Social-networking site MySpace and MTV, along with the Associated Press, have teamed up to offer Closing Arguments: A Presidential Super Dialogue to a potential audience of 200 million voters across a wide variety of outlets, …

LONDON, January 29: John Hutton, the U.K.’s Secretary of State for Business and Enterprise, has ruled that BSkyB must lower its stake in ITV from 17.9 percent to under 7.5 percent. The U.K.’s Competition Commission last year found that Sky’s …

LONDON/MUMBAI, January 29: HIT Entertainment has entered into another strategic partnership with Turner International India, expanding a deal for TV rights to Bob the Builder and Thomas & Friends to also include licensing representation. Cartoon Network in India has the …

NEW YORK, January 29: A new survey from Carat, a media communications company, found that the Hollywood writers’ strike is not driving viewers away from TV but is affecting their viewing patterns, with 72 percent of respondents watching the same …

LOS ANGELES/PALO ALTO, January 29: Endemol USA is producing an interactive online game show featuring nightclub and bar patrons for Metacafe, a video entertainment site that reaches more than 28 million unique viewers each month. Buzzed, a new online late-night …

LOS ANGELES, January 29: The Writers Guild of America has reached an interim agreement with the Grammy Awards, which is slated to air live on CBS on February 10. The deal allows for writers to pen material for the annual …