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BURBANK, March 22: ABC has given early 2007-08 pickups to 14 series, including three freshman shows: Brothers & Sisters, Men in Trees and Ugly Betty. Rounding out the renewals are the returning productions The Bachelor, Boston Legal, Dancing with the …

LONDON/MADRID, March 22: Liberty Global’s Chellomedia, through its Iberian TV business Multicanal, has taken control of Documanía, the factual channel operated by Sogecable. Multicanal will merge Documanía with its existing documentary channel Odisea. The agreement also includes the carriage of …

LONDON/ATHENS, March 22: Buena Vista International Television has closed its first video on demand deal in Greece, entering into a movie rental alliance with Vivodi Telecommunications for the recently launched cabletv triple-play package. The pact provides Vivodi with the Greek …

VOOM HD Launches in Hong Kong HONG KONG/LONDON, March 21: Rainbow Media has reached a deal to launch its VOOM HD channel in Hong Kong on PCCW’s Now Broadband TV platform, allowing subscribers to view the content, subtitled in Chinese, …

NEW YORK, March 21: Prior to its television debut on MTV2 on April 27, the third season of the MTV comedy series The Andy Milonakis Show will premiere on a wide variety of digital platforms, with the entire season already …

BARCELONA, March 21: V-Me, the first 24-hour Spanish-language public network in the U.S., has snapped up Vitaminix, the healthy-eating series for kids, from Icon Animation. V-Me becomes the second U.S. broadcaster to air the show, following a previous deal with …

LOS ANGELES, March 21: ABC Kids in Australia has acquired 52×11-minute episodes of the animated comedy series Alien Clones from Outer Space, co-produced by Telescreen and Suppertime Entertainment, for premiere in October 2008. The series is based on the books …

LOS ANGELES, March 21: Amp’d Mobile launched in Japan on March 1 and in Canada yesterday, making its entertainment content available to more than 30 million mobile users worldwide. The company launched in Japan via a new portal service designed …

LONDON, March 21: Distraction has added the eco-friendly format How Clean Is Your Planet? to its lineup at MIPTV this year. Originally produced by Marc St-Onge for Télé-Québec in Canada, How Clean Is Your Planet? is a weekly magazine format …

LONDON, March 21: Following its successful broadcast on Channel 4 in the U.K., My Child Genius, Wall to Wall’s documentary about gifted children, has been licensed for broadcast into a number of territories throughout the world. My Child Genius has …