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LONDON, August 13: BBC Three has acquired the U.K. rights to 20 one-hour episodes of the ABC Family original drama Greek, focusing on the American college system of fraternities and sororities, from Disney-ABC International Television. The series premiered in the …

LONDON, August 13: FremantleMedia Enterprises (FME) has shored up deals on its talent show America’s Got Talent, currently in its second season on NBC, in some 80 countries in the Asia Pacific, Europe and the Americas. The show, from FME …

LONDON, August 13: BBC Worldwide has licensed a raft of factual programming to Seven Network in Australia, including the 6×50-minute series Fight for Life, produced by the BBC, Discovery Channel and DCTP. Fight for Life, which celebrates the human body’s …

NEW YORK, August 13: Nickelodeon’s new CG-animated series Tak and the Power of Juju, based on the popular Nick/THQ video game, will premiere on the network with two back-to-back half-hour episodes on Friday, August 31, from 8 p.m. Tak and …

LONDON, August 13: Aspect Film has granted Sky Movies the U.K. broadcast rights to its British comedy feature film Back in Business. The company has also licensed the film’s worldwide in-flight rights to Los Angeles-based in-flight distributor Jetstream Pictures. Directed …

EMERYVILLE, August 13: Expanding on its relationship with NBC Universal, mobile content platform MobiTV has added the Access Hollywood channel to its services. Currently in its 11th season in U.S. syndication, Access Hollywood is an entertainment newsmagazine that provides the …

LONDON, August 13: HIT Entertainment’s popular stop-motion animated preschool series Bob the Builder will premiere in Brazil on the terrestrial broadcaster SBT. SBT will begin broadcasting the complete first season of Bob o Constructor this month to millions of homes …

COLUMBIA, August 13: Charles Hirschhorn, founder of the G4 channel now owned by Comcast, has been appointed as chief creative officer for Retirement Living TV, with responsibility for all programming, production and marketing at the network. Hirschhorn launched G4: Videogame …

MOUNTAIN VIEW, August 13: This week, Google is set to stop selling and renting video content on its Google Video site, a year and a half since the service first launched. Last January, Google Video launched its online marketplace with …

MUNICH, August 13: Georg Kofler is stepping down as the chief executive of German pay-TV platform Premiere at the end of this month to be succeeded by CFO Michael Börnicke. Kofler has asked the platform’s Supervisory Board to release him …