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LOS ANGELES, April 6: PorchLight Entertainment heads to MIPTV this month with its new 26×12-minute 3-D animated children’s series FARMkids, created by children’s educational expert Scott Strachan. PorchLight holds the exclusive worldwide distribution rights for the series, excluding Asia, Australia …

SHERMAN OAKS, April 6: GRB Entertainment has announced a slate of new deals, including licensing some 60 hours of content into the U.K. Marielle Zuccarelli, the senior VP of international sales for GRB Entertainment, commented: “We are off to a …

NEW YORK, April 6: Tim Gunn will return for the fourth season of Bravo’s Emmy-nominated fashion design reality series Project Runway as its mentor, along with a panel of judges that includes designer Michael Kors, ELLE magazine fashion director Nina …

LONDON, April 6: Alliance Atlantis International Content Distribution has secured a number of new merchandising and licensing deals for the popular stop-motion animated series Lunar Jim, which has now been sold to more than 100 territories. Lunar Jim recently launched …

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 …

BONITA SPRINGS/MONTREAL, April 6: In an exclusive multi-year DVD and digital format distribution deal, NCircle Entertainment has secured the general market home entertainment rights for the U.S. to existing episodes of the children’s series Mighty Machines from the Quebec-based Seville …

LONDON/HONG KONG, April 6: BBC Worldwide has appointed Maggie Wong as the senior publishing and licensing manager for Asia, replacing Freda Chan who has relocated to the U.S. In her new role, based in Hong Kong, Wong will be responsible …

LONDON, April 6: Virgin Media is considering its options in its battle with BSkyB over carriage of the Sky basic channels after receiving a response from the satellite operator earlier this week. Virgin Media had threatened legal action against Sky …

NEW YORK, April 6: Starting in the third quarter of this year, Discovery Communications will launch a new ad-supported initiative, “Discovery iPremieres,” which will premiere two free full-length episodes online each week from various new and returning top-performing series across …

BUCHAREST, April 6: INTACT Media Group will launch a new TV network, Antena2, in Romania on Monday, April 9, featuring talk shows and original productions based on international formats, among other content. The new network will join INTACT Media Group’s …