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BEIJING, October 22: CCTV Sports Promotion, a division of the Chinese state broadcaster, and Puerto Rico’s SportsNow! International have struck an agreement to jointly produce and distribute worldwide the series Who's Who (The Rivals), featuring a selection of the world’s …

ATLANTA, October 22: Cartoon Network will premiere its new animated comedy Chowder in the U.S. on November 2 with a special one-hour episode during the new prime-time programming franchise Fried Dynamite. The original series is set in Marzipan City and …

AMSTERDAM, October 22: Off the Fence has received a commission from the BBC to produce Feeding the Giants, a one-hour documentary for the pubcaster’s Natural World strand. The program is currently in production and due for delivery in autumn 2008. …

LONDON, October 22: Entertainment Rights (ER) has inked a number of new broadcast, merchandising and distribution deals across its portfolio of kids’ properties, following successful stints at Brand Licensing and MIPCOM. ER has licensed the new BBC-commissioned series Postman Pat …

TORONTO, October 22: Canada’s CCI Entertainment has secured a range of new international licensing deals for its hit preschool property Harry and His Bucket Full of Dinosaurs. In the U.K., Five’s preschool block Milkshake!, will start stripping Harry and His …

MUNICH, October 22: Germany’s Tandem Communications continues its expansion into the Japanese market with deals on its mini-series and movies with Kadokawa Pictures and The Klockworx. Kadokawa Pictures has picked up the four-hour CBS mini-series Covert One: The Hades Factor, …

LOS ANGELES, October 22: Members of the Writers Guild of America, West (WGAW) and the Writers Guild of America, East (WGAE) have voted to go on strike if an agreement cannot be reached with the Alliance of Motion Picture and …

LOS ANGELES, October 22: Rigel Entertainment is set to begin production on Metal Birding, a new teen motocross feature film starring High School Musical’s Corbin Bleu, this November in Vancouver. The action-filled coming-of-age story centers on 19-year-old Cale Bryant (Bleu), …

LONDON, October 22: The BBC dominated the nominees for the BAFTA Children’s Awards—set to be presented at a ceremony at the London Hilton on November 25—followed by Nickelodeon UK. The BBC’s CBeebies is up for Channel of the Year, alongside …

WOODLAND HILLS, October 22: Showcase Entertainment has announced plans to unveil four new factual programs featuring mentalist Uri Geller at this year’s AFM. Uri Geller: A Life Stranger than Fiction is a documentary on Geller’s life from his early childhood …