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CANNES, April 16: The Irish entertainment network Channel 6 has acquired a raft of comedy titles from BBC Worldwide, includingI’m Alan Partridge and The Royle Family. The deal also brings to the channel properties such as Big Train, Knowing Me, …

CANNES, April 16: Endemol International announced a slew of deals on the first day of MIPTV on titles from across its catalogue, including game show and entertainment formats and completed shows out of the U.K. Circus Of The Celebrities, following …

COLUMBIA, April 16: Retirement Living TV (RLTV), the first network created for people aged 55 and over, has announced its first international distribution agreement, inking an alliance with the Canada’s S-VOX. Retirement Living TV content will be distributed on S-VOX’s …

LOS ANGELES, April 16: Montreal-based Image in Media will produce at least two films per year for distribution by Regent Worldwide Sales as part of a new alliance between the two companies. Gene George, the president of Regent Worldwide Sales, …

CANNES/LOS ANGELES, April 16: Nickelodeon International has picked up the Asia-Pacific, European and Latin American rights to Taffy Entertainment’s Growing Up Creepie for launch early next year. The agreement also names Nickelodeon as Taffy’s licensing and merchandising agent in specified …

CANNES, April 16: French pay-TV broadcaster Canal Plus has acquired two drama series from ALL3MEDIA International, it was announced at MIPTV today. From award-winning film and television producer Ecosse Films, Cape Wrath is a thriller about a family living in …

CENTURY CITY, April 13: Tabitha Calero, formerly with The Robert Evans Company, and ex-MTV Networks staffer Gregory Diamond have launched a new TV and film outfit, Enigmatic Pictures, with production already underway on the documentary feature Crime and Passion. The …

BEIJING/BRUSSELS, April 13: The European Union will not join the U.S.’s complaint to the World Trade Organization against China over the rampant piracy in that market, wire reports indicate. According to Reuters, Viviane Reding, the EU’s Information Society and Media …

PARIS, April 13: Philippe Rouxel, the deputy managing director of Lagardere Networks International (LNI), has been named worldwide distribution VP at the French international news network France 24. Beginning this month, Rouxel will manage the global distribution of France 24 …

NEW YORK/SAN MATEO, April 13: Beginning this September, the Nielsen Company and Integrated Media Measurement Inc. (IMMI), the developer of an integrated media measurement system, will launch a co-branded service that will provide the industry’s first ongoing audience estimates of …