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TORONTO, November 26: Peace Arch Entertainment Group Inc. has announced that Mara Di Pasquale, the company’s chief financial officer, has resigned as a director of the company. Di Pasquale’s resignation from the Board was prompted by the appointment of Jeff …

SINGAPORE, November 26: Singapore’s Upside Down Concepts and LIC Australia have signed a co-production agreement at the Asia Factual Forum for a slate of 20 hours of documentary programming for the international television market, worth $4 million. Under the Memorandum …

MUNICH, November 26: SevenOne International has sold its Sat 1. telenovela That’s Life to Ukrainian network ICTV, which is set to begin airing tomorrow. The telenovela will air tomorrow under the title Kokhannia v Berlini (Love in Berlin) in an …

BARCELONA, November 26: Imira Entertainment, formerly known as Icon Animation, has closed a series of sales in Spain for its kids’ programming library. Imira Entertainment has partnered with ZDF Enterprises to place two of its shows on Spanish public broadcaster …

LONDON, November 26: Entertainment Rights (ER) has licensed the children’s property Toopy & Binoo to numerous major broadcasters. ER has sold this 2-D animated preschool series about Toopy, a loveable mouse, and Binoo, a tiny cat, who are inseparable friends …

TAIWAN/HONG KONG, November 26: STAR has partnered with Hong Kong-based Artificial Life to develop and distribute 15 games for mobile phones based on the Taiwanese teenage pop groups Lollipop and Mei Mei. The games are available for download on Artificial …

STOCKHOLM, November 26: Sparks Network has added two new members in Scandinavia to its global format exchange collective: Sweden Baluba Television in Sweden and Mediacircus in Norway. Baluba Television is known for successful comedy shows such as Hey Baberiba and …

LONDON, November 26: Tom Lucas has been appointed to the role of director of marketing and communications for UKTV, effective in January 2008. Reporting to the network’s controller, Matthew Littleford, Lucas will be responsible for all marketing and communications for …

LUXEMBOURG, November 26: RTL Group has entered into a joint venture with Luxembourg-based Continental Finance Group S.A. (CFG) for the production, operation and distribution of thematic, non-terrestrial TV channels in Russia and in the C.I.S. According to the agreement, RTL …

LONDON, November 26: BBC Worldwide has teamed up with the former head of drama at Thames Television, Paul Marquess, to launch a new independent production company, Cliffhanger Productions. The new company will focus on dramatic content for networks in the …