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NEW YORK, May 8: Lifetime Television's drama series Blood Ties will return for a second season of ten new episodes in the fall. Blood Ties premiered on the network on March 11 and is currently averaging a 1.1 household rating …

NEW YORK, May 8: On June 11, SCI FI in the U.S. is launching Ani-Monday, a weekly block featuring content from Starz Media’s anime distribution arm, Manga Entertainment. The block, airing Mondays from 11 p.m. to 1 a.m., marks the …

NEW YORK, May 8: The “green living” multimedia brand LIME has launched Ms. Rabble, an original eco-friendly animated webisode series—featuring the voice of former Saturday Night Live comedienne Victoria Jackson—on its broadband channel. In addition to the series’ launch on …

NEW YORK, May 8: FremantleMedia, the producer and licensor for the classic ‘90s TV show Baywatch, has announced that it will launch a line of apparel and accessories based on the iconic series. FremantleMedia will launch its Baywatch merchandising program …

LONDON, May 8: 3DD Digital, the digital division of the U.K.-based 3DD Group, has secured a content licensing deal to provide a selection of concerts and live music programming to Babelgum, a new peer-to-peer based Internet on demand TV platform. …

LONDON, May 8: Granada International has licensed a package of reality programming to Fox Life in Italy, including the first two seasons of Nanny 911, as well as Australian Princess and American Princess. The broadcast of the U.S. series Nanny …

LONDON, May 8: Entertainment Rights (ER) has announced a host of deals concluded at MIPTV on titles from across its catalogue, which it has bolstered with the addition of the new Transformers series from Hasbro. ER has acquired the worldwide …

LOS ANGELES/TORONTO, May 8: Bejuba! Entertainment has secured the international distribution rights to Toronto-based zinc Roe Design’s International Interactive Emmy-Award winning animated series The Zimmer Twins. The series has already been licensed to the Australian Broadcasting Corporation and is set …

LONDON, May 8: The British factual distributor Electric Sky has reached a deal to distribute a package of seven high-definition documentaries produced for National Geographic Channel in the U.S. The seven titles include the 1-hour Inside Saddam’s Reign of Terror …

WEST PALM BEACH/CHICAGO/NEW YORK, May 7: ION Media Networks has reached a deal for Citadel Investment Group to take a majority stake in the broadcast group, in a deal worth $173 million, with NBC Universal maintaining a minority interest. ION …