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STUDIO CITY, August 14: Production is underway in Toronto on The Good Witch, a new original movie for the Hallmark Channel starring Catherine Bell (Army Wives) and Chris Potter (Hairspray). Set to air on Hallmark next year, the film is …

LONDON, August 14: Fireworks International has secured a number of new international broadcast deals for its 22×1-hour crime thriller Blood Ties, including a prime-time slot on the Virgin Media Television-owned LIVING channel’s summer schedule this year. NBC Universal has acquired …

SAN FRANCISCO, August 14: VIZ Media has acquired the download rights to the anime series Bleach from TV Tokyo and Shueisha and is planning to offer 20 episodes of the show in both the dubbed and subtitled versions via direct2drive.com …

LONDON, August 14: TV-Loonland’s successful preschool property Little Princess has been renewed for a second season on Five, with the new episodes set to air during the Milkshake! block beginning next month. The renewal follows the success of the first …

LONDON, August 13: Aspect Film has granted Sky Movies the U.K. broadcast rights to its British comedy feature film Back in Business. The company has also licensed the film’s worldwide in-flight rights to Los Angeles-based in-flight distributor Jetstream Pictures. Directed …

EMERYVILLE, August 13: Expanding on its relationship with NBC Universal, mobile content platform MobiTV has added the Access Hollywood channel to its services. Currently in its 11th season in U.S. syndication, Access Hollywood is an entertainment newsmagazine that provides the …

LONDON, August 13: HIT Entertainment’s popular stop-motion animated preschool series Bob the Builder will premiere in Brazil on the terrestrial broadcaster SBT. SBT will begin broadcasting the complete first season of Bob o Constructor this month to millions of homes …

COLUMBIA, August 13: Charles Hirschhorn, founder of the G4 channel now owned by Comcast, has been appointed as chief creative officer for Retirement Living TV, with responsibility for all programming, production and marketing at the network. Hirschhorn launched G4: Videogame …

MOUNTAIN VIEW, August 13: This week, Google is set to stop selling and renting video content on its Google Video site, a year and a half since the service first launched. Last January, Google Video launched its online marketplace with …

MUNICH, August 13: Georg Kofler is stepping down as the chief executive of German pay-TV platform Premiere at the end of this month to be succeeded by CFO Michael Börnicke. Kofler has asked the platform’s Supervisory Board to release him …