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NEW YORK, October 29: Juniper Content Corporation’s Hispanic kids channel ¡Sorpresa! has acquired four new programs, including animated and live-action series and films that are targeted at preschoolers, kids and tweens. The network’s own hosted television special Luz, Camara, ¡Sorpresa! …

COLOGNE/LOS ANGELES, October 29: Following MIPCOM, Gavin Reardon’s …and action! Distribution has completed new sales on the English-language action/drama film Fast Track: No Limits and the German-language action film Dekker the Trucker, both shot in Germany. Co-produced by Action Image …

LOS ANGELES, October 26: Interactive entertainment company Ludia has inked a multi-year, worldwide exclusive agreement to create video games based on Granada’s Hell’s Kitchen series, for roll out across PC, console and mobile platforms. The game is slated to coincide …

TORONTO, October 26: Breakthrough Films & Television has made three key promotions and has hired Alethea Robinson to the newly created role of manager of marketing and communications. Robinson will report to Peter Williamson, an executive producer/partner at Breakthrough, and …

NEW YORK, October 26: Viacom's MTV Networks has upped Tina Imm to the role of senior VP and general manager for VH1 Digital and has promoted Tony Carbone and Deb Kadetsky to VP of digital production and programming and VP …

BOULOGNE, October 26: Group revenues at the market-leading French broadcasting group TF1 rose 4.5 percent in the first nine months of the year to 1.97 billion euros. Net advertising at the main TF1 channel was relatively flat at 1.23 billion …

LOS ANGELES, October 26: The Troll Company has responded to DIC Entertainment’s $20-million lawsuit filed earlier this week, calling the allegations of fraud and negligent representation “baseless.” On Wednesday, DIC Entertainment lodged a suit against the Troll Company (TC), alleging …

LOS ANGELES, October 26: The American Film Market (AFM) has unveiled its schedule of seminars and conferences, a total of 16 panel sessions addressing topics such as distribution, budgeting, production incentives, digital distribution, film adaptation and mobile. The panel sessions …

NEW YORK, October 26: Spike TV and the Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC) organization have agreed to a new, three-year extension of their partnership, which will see the male-skewing network remain as the basic-cable home of the mixed martial arts brand …

NEW YORK, October 26: SCI FI Channel has greenlit a new two-hour dramedy pilot from Universal Media Studios, Warehouse 13. The new one-hour dramedy is slated to begin production in December for rollout in summer 2008. Warehouse 13 is based …