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SANTA MONICA/VANCOUVER, March 18: Lionsgate will roll out an initiative to package many of its DVD releases in environmentally-friendly materials, kicking off with the third season of the hit Showtime series Weeds. The Weeds: Season Three DVD is launching in …

VIENNA, March 17: Arte France has picked up the crime-comedy series Four Women and a Funeral from Austria’s ORF. ORF has already licensed the series to Bosnia, Bulgaria, Ukraine, Russia, Slovenia and Switzerland. Four Women and a Funeral is a …

TORONTO, March 17: OUTtv, the Canadian 24/7 cable channel dedicated to gay and lesbian content, has secured a programming and supply deal with here! Network in the U.S. to produce a number of new television series that will air on …

BUENOS AIRES, March 17: Telefe International announced that Reyes del juego, the Russian version of its fiction format Pretenders, has successfully debuted on CTC. Reyes del juego currently airs from Monday through Thursday at 9 p.m. The debut of Reyes …

HONG KONG, March 17: Celestial Pictures will release Behind the Yellow Line, from its Shaw Brothers film library, in the Blu-ray high-definition DVD format this April. This release marks the first of Celestial’s Shaw Brothers films to be launched in …

SYDNEY, March 17: VMMA Belgium has picked up 240 half-hour episodes of Out of the Blue, a drama series produced by Southern Star Entertainment in association with the BBC. The series is set in the beach resort of Manly, Australia, …

VANCOUVER, March 17: Nerd Corps Entertainment’s 3-D animated series Storm Hawks has been picked up by the U.K.-based free-to-air broadcaster GMTV. The 52×30-minute series will launch mid-March, starting with back-to-back episodes each weekday morning on GMTV’s Action Stations block and …

LONDON, March 17: News Corporation has appointed Matthew Anderson as the group director of strategy and corporate affairs for Europe and Asia, effective April 15. In his new role, Anderson will pursue a wide remit supporting the operations of the …

NEW YORK, March 17: Lifetime Networks has named OMD’s managing director, Debbie Richman, to the position of executive VP of ad sales. Beginning April 1, Richman will oversee all ad sales for Lifetime Television, Lifetime Movie Network, Lifetime Real Women …

LONDON, March 17: Channel 4 International (C4i) has bulked up its sales and acquisitions teams with several new hires and the promotion of Patrick Roberts to VP of international sales. Roberts will be responsible for sales to the U.S. and …