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HONG KONG, December 1: MySpace.com is in negotiations with potential partners to launch a Chinese version of the social-networking website in mainland China. According to The Wall Street Journal, MySpace.com, which is owned by News Corp., is in discussions with …

HILVERSUM, December 1: 2waytraffic has agreed to acquire the Who Wants To Be A Millionaire? property, along with Celador International’s remaining format library, for £106 million. The deal will see the Dutch company acquiring the entire issued share capital of …

LOS ANGELES, December 1: Lifetime Television has placed a 13-episode order for Army Wives, a new drama from The Mark Gordon Company and Touchstone Television that will star Kim Delaney. Set to launch in March 2007, the ensemble drama follows …

LONDON, December 1: Channel 4 in the U.K. has commissioned Big Brother for another three years, keeping the show on the British broadcaster until 2010. The extended Big Brother commission includes the spinoff programming Celebrity Big Brother, Big Brother/Little Brother …

PARIS/ENGLEWOOD, December 1: The European international news channel EuroNews has secured a carriage deal with EchoStar’s DISH Network satellite platform. DISH Network will carry EuroNews in six languages—English, Italian, German, French, Russian, and Portuguese—which will be available as part of …

PARIS, December 1: Taffy Entertainment has announced new deals in Latin America for its key animated titles Code Lyoko and Fantastic Four, including agreements with Jetix and Cartoon Network. Jetix Latin America has committed to seasons three and four of …

SAN MATEO, December 1: Sling Media has hired former MTV digital entertainment executives Jason Hirschhorn and Benjamin White to head up the newly created Sling Media Entertainment Group, which is charged with creating next-generation entertainment experiences for Slingbox users. Slingbox …

SINGAPORE, December 1: Indian pay-TV movie channel FILMY, owned by Sahara One, has entered into a multiyear volume film deal with Buena Vista International Television-Asia Pacific. The agreement, a key one for BVITV as it looks to strengthen its business …

HONG KONG, December 1: Granada International, which recently opened an Asian regional headquarters in Hong Kong, has licensed the latest season of the American version of Hell’s Kitchen to Singaporean terrestrial broadcaster MediaCorp. The ten-episode FOX series, in which Gordon …

AMSTERDAM, December 1: Nokia is to launch a Digital Video Broadcast-Handheld (DVB-H) broadcast mobile TV pilot in India, in conjunction with the national state broadcaster Doordarshan. The Nokia Mobile Broadcast Solution will be delivered to Doordarshan via SHAF Broadcast in …