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BURBANK, March 22: ABC has given early 2007-08 pickups to 14 series, including three freshman shows: Brothers & Sisters, Men in Trees and Ugly Betty. Rounding out the renewals are the returning productions The Bachelor, Boston Legal, Dancing with the …

LONDON/MADRID, March 22: Liberty Global’s Chellomedia, through its Iberian TV business Multicanal, has taken control of Documanía, the factual channel operated by Sogecable. Multicanal will merge Documanía with its existing documentary channel Odisea. The agreement also includes the carriage of …

LONDON/ATHENS, March 22: Buena Vista International Television has closed its first video on demand deal in Greece, entering into a movie rental alliance with Vivodi Telecommunications for the recently launched cabletv triple-play package. The pact provides Vivodi with the Greek …

NEW YORK, March 22: The premium gay and lesbian programming service here! Networks is expanding to Canada, inking a deal to launch as a subscription video on demand offering with Rogers Cable. The here! content is now available on Rogers …

LONDON, March 22: FremantleMedia Enterprises (FME) has reached an exclusive first-look output deal with Rough Cut Television, Ash Atalla’s new independent production company, that grants FME all of the new venture’s worldwide television, DVD and new media rights. Atalla has …

TORONTO, March 22: Shaftesbury Sales Company has licensed the 90-minute family TV movie Booky Makes Her Mark to Sky in the U.K., TV3 in Ireland, Netherlands Public Broadcasting and Reshet-TV in Israel. Booky Makes Her Mark will be available to …

MIAMI, March 22: Venevision International has launched Venemobile, a new business unit focused on providing Spanish-language wireless entertainment. Venevision will provide content for the wireless phone market worldwide, in particular the U.S. Hispanic market, including TV and film clips, photographs …

LONDON, March 22: Cineflix International has licensed three of its in-house productions for broadcast into Europe and the U.S., including its first-ever deal with Germany’s Super RTL for the science series ExperiMental. The 20×30-minute ExperiMental has also been licensed to …

NEW JERSEY, March 22: Alfred Haber, Inc. (AHI), has now cleared the 2007 49th Annual Grammy Awards in over 177 countries around the world, reaching a sales milestone. AHI has represented the Grammy Awards internationally for the past eighteen years. …

LONDON, March 21: Following its successful broadcast on Channel 4 in the U.K., My Child Genius, Wall to Wall’s documentary about gifted children, has been licensed for broadcast into a number of territories throughout the world. My Child Genius has …