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ENGLEWOOD, June 21: Belgian Cable Investors, controlled by Liberty Global, has exercised its option to acquire a further 18.668 million shares in Belgian cable operator Telenet Group Holding for 466.7 million euros. The deal increases Liberty’s interest in Belgium’s largest …

HOLLYWOOD, June 21: Cinamour Entertainment has reached a distribution deal to bring the new half-hour celebrity court reality series Jury Duty to international markets. The deal was reached with the series’ producer and creator Vincent Dymon. Jury Duty premieres September …

CUPERTINO, June 21: Users of Apple’s soon-to-be-launched iPhone will be able to access YouTube content directly on their handsets. Set to be released June 29, the iPhone will feature YouTube content wirelessly streamed to the device, which features a 3.5-inch …

LOS ANGELES, June 21: MarVista Entertainment arrived at DISCOP this week with several deals already concluded in the region, including licensing more than a dozen movies to Zonemedia’s Zone Romantica channel in Eastern Europe. Zonemedia acquired more than a dozen …

LONDON, June 21: All3Media has expanded its portfolio of independent British production houses with the acquisition of Maverick Television. Based in Birmingham and London, the company was founded in 1993 by Jonnie Turpie. It currently has two peak time series …

LONDON, June 21: Virgin Media Television’s game-show entertainment channel Challenge has commissioned Graham Norton’s So Television to create a new clip show, entitled NortonLand. The series will showcase the best games from Graham Norton’s nightly show on Channel 4. Each …

MUMBAI, June 21: Media Content & Communications Services India (MCCS), a joint venture between Ananda Bazar Patrika Group (ABP) and the STAR Group, has announced the launch of STAR Majha (My Star), a 24-hour Indian news channel in the Marathi …

NEW YORK, June 21: Scholastic Media’s stop-motion animated preschool series Dragon will return to qubo—the children’s programming block airing on NBC, Telemundo and ION Television—for a second season of 13 new episodes, this September. Dragon made its U.S. broadcast premiere …

LOS ANGELES, June 21: This summer, The Style Network will launch Pantry Raid, a new one-hour weekly culinary series that aims to help people whip up gourmet meals from unlikely ingredients available in their kitchens. The series sees host Michael …

TORONTO, June 21: Portfolio Entertainment has received a commission from TELETOON in Canada for a fourth season of 13 episodes of the animated tween comedy Carl2 (Carl Squared). Carl2 currently airs on TELETOON in Canada, Nickelodeon in Germany, Jetix in …