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MILAN/MADRID, March 21: According to wire reports, Mediaset has signed a confidentiality agreement with Telefónica over its interest in acquiring a majority stake in Endemol. Earlier this month, Telefónica confirmed its intention to offload its 75-percent interest in the format …

LOS ANGELES, March 21: FOX has given a third-season renewal to its Monday-night drama Prison Break, which wraps up its second season on April 2. The series, created by Paul Scheuring, stars Dominic Purcell and Wentworth Miller as on-the-lam brothers …

LITTLE ROCK, March 21: Equity Broadcasting Corporation (EBC) has reached an agreement with CBS Television Distribution for 55 hours per week of classic content to air on its upcoming digital broadcast channel, Retro Television Network (RTN). Under the terms of …

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 …

CHARLOTTE/NASHVILLE, March 20: Educational Adventures, the North-Carolina-based producer of the award-winning animated children’s safety-themed television series Danger Rangers, has licensed four of its Danger Rangers DVD titles to the Tennessee-based Christian publisher Thomas Nelson Family Entertainment, for distribution in the …

LONDON, March 20: Darlow Smithson Productions has been commissioned by Channel 4 in the U.K. to produce The Beckoning Silence, a 90-minute drama-documentary special based on mountain climber Joe Simpson’s best-selling book of the same name. The Beckoning Silence is …

WASHINGTON, March 20: National Geographic Channels International (NGCI) has partnered with FOX International Channels (FIC) for a special Earth Day multimedia initiative on April 22 that includes the broadcast of environmental programs like Jean-Michel Cousteau’s Ocean Adventures. The initiative aims …