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NEW YORK, April 12: Maria Badillo is joining the Hispanic kids’ channel ¡Sorpresa! Network as VP of programming from Discovery Kids Latin America. Badillo will be responsible for co-production and acquisitions for the ¡Sorpresa! Network. She will report to Leonard …

TOKYO, April 12: BabyTV, a channel for infants and toddlers under the age of 3, is expanding to Japan as a morning and afternoon block on News Broadcasting Japan’s FOXlife HD channel. BabyTV was first launched in Israel in 2003, …

LONDON, April 12: The BBC has picked up Distraction’s Dirty Rotten Cheater, an interactive game show format centered on cheating, for launch this summer. The BBC’s version of the game show will be hosted by Brian Conley. Nominated last year …

MUNICH, April 12: SevenOne International has licensed all 123 episodes of Sat.1’s telenovela Love is in the Air to Mediaset’s Canale 5 in Italy, for broadcast starting from April 16. Launching under the Italian title Cuori tra le nuvole, or …

BURBANK, April 12: DIC Entertainment has formed a Global Brand Management division that will work across the TV, home entertainment and consumer products divisions, reporting to Nancy Fowler, the company’s head of global sales. The Global Brand Management division will …

LONDON, April 12: Cartoon Network in the U.S. will launch The Mr. Men Show, a new 52×11-minute animated sketch comedy series for kids from Chorion, in January 2008. Cartoon Network will also co-produce the series, which is based on the …

LONDON, April 12: In a format deal with Reveille International, Sky One has secured the rights to develop a version of Mark Burnett Productions’ hit FOX game show Are You Smarter Than A 5th Grader? under the title Are You …

LONDON, April 11: The sale of British programming on the international market generated revenues of £593 million in 2006, up 20 percent on 2005, according to the British trade body Pact. According to the data, compiled by the Department for …

TORONTO, April 11: DECODE Entertainment will launch at MIPTV the new preschool series Bo on the GO!, which was commissioned by Canada’s CBC. Produced by Halifax Film, DECODE’s sister company in DHX Media Ltd., the series promotes an active lifestyle …

DARMSTADT, April 11: A range of NBC Universal content will be made available on a download-to-own basis in Germany via T-Home, T-Com’s IPTV service, with T-Com becoming the first digital retailer to offer a legal and secure download-to-burn option for …