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SANTA MONICA, March 29: GSN, the network for games, has ordered 40 half-hour episodes of Camouflage, a new hidden word puzzle and trivia game show, from Disney's Buena Vista Productions. Camouflage marks the first collaboration between Buena Vista Productions and …

LONDON, March 29: The Japanese video-on-demand company Gakken Index has secured the broadband VOD rights to more than 400 hours of Granada International programming and will supply that content, branded Granada Broadband, to all major IPTV services in Japan. Titles …

LONDON, March 29: Virgin Media Television-owned entertainment channel LIVING has reached a new agreement with Buena Vista International Television (BVITV) for the exclusive U.K. rights to two U.S. dramas, the supernatural drama Ghost Whisperer and the procedural drama Criminal Minds. …

MUNICH, March 29: SevenOne International has sold the format to ProSieben’s hit game show Beat Your Host! to the U.K., Sweden and Finland, in a deal with Zodiak Television. Zodiak will produce the show using its own local production companies: …

NEW YORK/LONDON, March 29: The History Channel has launched a direct-to-consumer mobile service in the U.K., delivering the network’s content to viewers via WAP for the first time, with localized versions of the channel’s mobile service rolling out in Europe, …

LONDON, March 29: Howard Litton has been promoted to senior VP and managing director of Nickelodeon UK from his previous role as senior VP, general manager and director of channels. Litton will be responsible for all of Nickelodeon UK’s operations, …

ENCINO, March 28: Documentary distributor Solid Entertainment has secured the international broadcast rights for The Real Lost World, a documentary that aired on Animal Planet about the Venezuelan site that inspired the classic novel The Lost World. Solid Entertainment plans …

LONDON, March 28: Entertainment Rights (ER) has announced that its top-rated BBC children’s series Postman Pat will premiere in the U.S. this fall as part of qubo, the multiplatform children’s service on NBC, Telemundo and ION; and that production has …

NEW YORK, March 28: VH1 has renewed its original broadband comedic series Home Purchasing Club for a second season of eight new weekly episodes, which will be available exclusively on demand on its broadband channel VSPOT and its companion syndicated …

WASHINGTON, March 28: The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) has approved the buyout of Univision Communications, the leading Spanish-language broadcaster in the U.S., by a consortium of private investors. At the same time, as the FCC gave its OK to the …