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LOS ANGELES, April 9: The 24-hour French-language channel TV5Monda USA is expanding its kids’ offerings with new afternoon block featuring both animated and live-action fare. Launching this week, the new block will initially feature Potlach la ferme (The Farm Potlach) …

BRISTOL, April 9: According to local reports, Aardman Animations has been given the go ahead to build new headquarters, budgeted at $10 million, next to its current base in Bristol. The BBC reports that Bristol’s city council has greenlit Aardman’s …

NEW YORK, April 9: ImaginAsian TV has bolstered its Korean drama lineup with the acquisition of Munhwa Broadcasting Corporation’s popular serial Couple in Trouble. The series is slated to launch April 15 at 8 p.m. It is based on the …

NEW YORK, April 9: Juniper Content Corporation announced today that its Hispanic kids’ channel, Sorpresa!, passed 713,000 subscribers at December 31, 2006, representing a 45-percent gain over its distribution at the end of 2005. "Sorpresa! realized a substantial increase in …

LOS ANGELES, April 9: PorchLight Entertainment will unveil a slate of over $50 million-worth of new programming at MIPTV, including The Ultimate Gift, a theatrical family drama that was recently released by FOX Faith in U.S. theaters and stars Academy-Award …

KNOXVILLE, April 9: Among Scripps Networks’ top offerings for MIPTV is the HGTV series Living with Ed, which the company expects will tap into broadcasters’ demands for content on environmentally conscious lifestyles. The series chronicles the daily life of the …

CHANTILLY, April 9: TPI will bring its new 50-minute special The Emerald Empire: Land of Hope and Shadows, along with the feature film Long Road to Heaven, which was banned in Bali, to MIPTV this month. The Emerald Empire takes …

SYDNEY, April 9: Beyond Distribution will be attending MIPTV with a diverse range of programming, from its new factual entertainment series Making It Big to its recently-acquired stable of five feature films, which includes A Good Woman starring Scarlett Johansson. …

TORONTO, April 9: Aiming to expand beyond the success of preschool properties such as Bruno & The Banana Bunch, Cuppa Coffee Studios heads to MIPTV with two new 13×22-minute stop-motion comedies targeted at the teens and older market: Nerdland and …

PARIS, April 6: Novavision has licensed the cable, terrestrial broadcast, Internet and mobile rights for ZeZe Candid Camera, a series of hidden-camera clips, to UTV in India, and 25×26-minute episodes of Pop Corn TV, compilations of gags from the ZeZe …