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LOS ANGELES, April 23: PorchLight Home Entertainment will launch a new label under the banner PorchLight INSPIRE, which will feature family and children’s entertainment with faith-based messages. The first title set to be released under the new label is Adventures …

TORONTO, April 23: Citytv has ordered up another season of the one-hour drama Murdoch Mysteries from Shaftesbury Films. Based on Maureen Jennings’ detective novels, Murdoch Mysteries is set in 1895 Toronto and centers on the world of William Murdoch, a …

LONDON, April 23: BBC Worldwide has appointed three new licensees for its live-action preschool series In the Night Garden, including Golden Bear Products to manufacture and distribute a nursery range for the brand across the U.K. Scheduled to launch in …

LONDON, April 23: BKN has sold its animated kids’ series Zorro: Generation Z to a range of international broadcasters, including Telecinco and Clan TV/TVE in Spain. Additional broadcasters who have recently come aboard for the series include POP Channel in …

BARCELONA, April 23: RAI Trade, the commercial arm of Italian broadcaster RAI, has acquired the merchandising rights for Italy to the animated girl-skewing series Lola & Virginia from Spain’s Imira Entertainment. In further licensing deals, Panini is set to launch …

LONDON, April 23: Zone Reality has commissioned British indie Rival Media to produce a pilot for a new reality series titled Stupid Laws, to be distributed by Zone Distribution. The pilot will go into production in late spring, and will …

NEW YORK, April 23: The kids’ service qubo has created nutritional guidelines that will dictate advertising decisions on its digital channel, as well as on its blocks on NBC, ION Television and Telemundo. To create these nutritional guidelines, qubo enlisted …

LOS ANGELES, April 23: B. Wooding Media has completed sales on a number of its factual programs, including deals in the U.S., Poland, South Africa and France, among others. The company licensed Screamers to Starz Entertainment in the U.S., Animal …

LOS ANGELES, April 23: The Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers, which today is continuing its negotiations with the Screen Actors Guild for a new contract, has filed a complaint against the Writers Guild of America with the National …

NEW YORK, April 23: Ira Rubenstein will serve as the executive VP of Marvel Entertainment’s newly launched global digital media group, and will relocate to the company’s New York headquarters. Reporting to John Turitzin, the executive VP of the office …