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LOS ANGELES, January 30: Former Classic Media executive Sandrine Pechels de Saint Sardos has been appointed as the VP of distribution for Bejuba! Entertainment. Reporting to Tatiana Kober, Bejuba!’s president, Pechels de Saint Sardos, based in New York, will assist …

DUBLIN, January 30: Bienvenue Cannes, a feature-length documentary that celebrates the 60th anniversary of the Cannes Film Festival, is scheduled be launched at MIPDOC by Monster Distributes. The 84-minute documentary by Richard Schickel is produced by Lorac Productions in association …

LONDON, January 30: MercuryMedia International has inked a deal to distribute PBS content to airlines around the world through its in-flight distribution arm. PBS titles available for participating airlines include Texas Ranch House, Ken Burns’ Jazz, Jean Michel Cousteau’s Ocean …

STOCKHOLM, January 30: Talpa Scandinavia has produced a new format, Limbo, based on the number game of the same name from Svenska Spel, the Swedish National Lottery, for broadcast on TV4. Limbo will air on the Swedish commercial network TV4 …

HONG KONG, January 30: The Cable & Satellite Broadcasting Association of Asia (CASBAA) will stage the seventh annual CASBAA Satellite Industry Forum in Singapore on June 18th. The forum traditionally acts as a curtain raiser for the CommunicAsia and BroadcastAsia …

LONDON, January 30: The British arm of the digital entertainment outfit Buongiorno has acquired the mobile content production firm Inventa for £1 million. Inventa was co-founded by the British digital marketing agency Profero, the marketing group Slice and BBC Radio …

SAN ANTONIO, January 30: A slate of channels from A&E Television Networks (AETN) will be made available on the AT&T U-verse TV lineup, along with a raft of video on demand programming. The deal covers carriage for A&E Network, The …

CHATSWORTH, January 30: Image Entertainment has secured the DVD and digital download rights from NBC Universal Television Distribution to 14 titles originally produced for the SCI FI Channel’s signature Saturday night movie franchise. In a multi-year agreement with NBC Universal …

SINGAPORE, January 30: StarHub Digital Cable will launch five new channels on February 1, including FX, taking the platform’s number of offerings to a total of 102. StarHub’s “Family Plus” tier customers will be able to access the new channels …

LOS ANGELES, January 30: Kevin MacLellan, E! Networks' senior VP of international, has been upped to the newly created role of president of Comcast Entertainment Group, International, a new division created to oversee Comcast’s international entertainment properties. MacLellan’s new role …