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CANNES, April 8: Granada International has secured a new three-year renewal of its output deal with SBS Broadcasting, with the expanded agreement including a significant commitment to daytime programming. Daytime programming included in the deal will be selected from Granada’s …

MIAMI, April 8: MySpace has launched a bilingual destination, MySpace Latino, featuring culturally relevant content built around the interests of Hispanic users. The new site was created in collaboration with partners such as ImpreMedia, Spanish Broadcasting System (SBS), Billboard en …

LOS ANGELES, April 8: E! Entertainment Television will launch a new observational documentary series that looks at the life of Pamela Anderson, tentatively titled Pamela and set to debut this summer. Produced by award-winning filmmakers World of Wonder Productions, the …

UNTERFÖHRING, April 8: Interactive TV producer 9Live International is launching call-TV productions on channels in Colombia, Hungary, Denmark and Sweden, with the company’s shows now airing in a total of eight countries. 9Live’s Spanish-language interactive show in Colombia, titled Ganamanía …

CANNES, April 8: MarVista Entertainment has completed an agreement with Spain’s Drimtim Entertainment to executive produce and distribute two new movies: Reflections and Stevie. The films will be co-produced by Drimtim Entertainment, Gestmusic Endemol Spain and Antena 3 Films, and …

LONDON, April 8: BSkyB has made two new appointments for its board, with Andrew Griffith named chief financial officer and Danny Rimer as an independent non-executive director, effective immediately. Griffith was previously BSkyB’s director of group finance, M&A and investor …

CANNES, April 8: Rai Due, the youth-focused channel of Italy’s state broadcaster, has snapped up two British drama series, Life on Mars and Primeval, from BBC Worldwide. Rai Due took on the first two seasons of both dramas, which have …

MIAMI, April 8: Jacqueline Hernandez has been appointed the COO of NBC Universal-owned Hispanic broadcaster Telemundo Communications Group, based in New York. In the newly created position, Hernandez assumes responsibility for leading and unifying all sales, marketing and domestic growth …

CANNES, April 8: A&E Television Networks (AETN) and ZDF Enterprises have extended their current multifaceted programming and co-production deal for three years. The terms call for ZDF Enterprises to acquire non-fiction programming from AETN’s History catalogue for ZDF’s history-oriented programming …

LONDON, April 8: Fireworks International has made a number of appointments in an expansion of its sales operations in Toronto and London, including adding two new sales directors for its factual catalogue. Smiljka Baljozovic and Kathryn Kozanczyn join Fireworks’ Toronto-based …