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NEW YORK, August 7: Ricky Gervais and Stephen Merchant’s award-winning British comedy The Office has scored several digital deals in the U.S., bringing it to BBC America On Demand, Netflix.com and Vuze.com. Beginning this summer, two seasons of six half-hour …

NEW YORK, August 6: New York-based Animation Collective and Canada’s Fatkat Studios are working together on a new 26×30-minute animated series, Three Delivery, set in Chinatown and slated to air on Nicktoons Network, YTV and the BBC. The series was …

NEW YORK, August 6: The International Fight League and Alfred Haber Distribution today announced that STAR in Asia will carry IFL programming on its STAR Sports platform, available in over 50 countries to a viewership of more than 300 million. …

LONDON, August 6: Discovery Networks UK has launched two new on-demand mobile TV channels for its linear networks Discovery Turbo and Animal Planet on Vodafone and Orange. Both Discovery Turbo and Animal Planet mobile TV are also available on subscription …

HONG KONG, August 6: Granada International has acquired the pan-Asian distribution rights for The May Lee Show, a weekly talk show produced for STAR World. The 13×1-hour series is hosted by May Lee, a Korean American who previously served as …

AMSTERDAM, August 6: Off the Fence has licensed a range of factual programming to channels in Spain and Portugal, including closing a deal with Spain’s Natura for 15 hours of content. Among the titles in the Natura deal is Island …

BELLEVUE, August 6: Pokemon USA has revealed that the new Pokemon Trading Figure Game (TFG) is slated to hit stores in the U.S. on September 19, with the initial line to include more than 40 popular Pokemon characters and Trainer …

LONDON, August 6: Chellomedia has announced the consolidation of its thematic channel advertising sales business in Central Europe, tapping Marcin Boroszko, currently the managing director of the Warsaw-based At Media, as director of advertising sales for the region. In his …

HELSINKI/REDWOOD, August 6: Nokia has licensed Microsoft’s PlayReady digital rights management (DRM) technology for use in its S60 and Series 40 mobile device platforms in a bid to expand the use of wireless content worldwide. PlayReady is a new content …

NEW DELHI, August 6: India’s Foreign Investment Promotion Board (FIPB) has cleared Television Eighteen Group’s (TV18) acquisition of a 50-percent stake in MTV Networks India for Rs. 200 crore ($50 million), local press reports indicate. The move comes after Viacom’s …