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NEW YORK, June 27: Canadian broadcaster CTV has bagged the exclusive broadcast and digital rights (including broadband, video-on-demand and mobile) to the Comedy Central program slate, which it can schedule on any of its platforms, including the specialty channel The …

SANTA MONICA/VANCOUVER, June 27: Lionsgate has signed a television development deal with Roy Lee and Doug Davison's Vertigo Entertainment, which has become known for producing U.S. remakes of Asian films, resulting in The Ring, The Grudge and The Departed, among …

NEW YORK, June 27: MTV in the U.S., and sister offerings in 36 countries have greenlit a second season of the social networking series Meet or Delete, targeted at college students and produced in collaboration with the information technology company …

HO CHI MINH CITY/SINGAPORE, June 27: Disney Channel has expanded its presence in Vietnam and is now available in 75 percent of all pay-TV households, with carriage on the pay-TV systems Vietnam Cable Television Service Technique Center (VCTV) and Saigon …

MAINZ, June 26: ZDF Enterprises has taken on the worldwide rights to event productions from UFA and teamWorx, as well as the German-language rights to properties from the U.K.’s Wall to Wall. The UFA production Port of Hope—The Last Voyage …

COPENHAGEN, June 26: Armenia’s Public Television has ordered an additional three seasons of 15 episodes each of Zodiak Television World’s prime-time talent show Stars on Stage. The renewal follows the ratings success of the series’ first season on the Armenian …

SÃO PAULO, June 26: Six months since its Latin American launch by Globo TV International, the telenovela Snakes & Lizards has notched up deals in more than 10 countries, most recently Uruguay and Venezuela. In Uruguay, the series launched on …

LUXEMBOURG/HILVERSUM, June 26: RTL Group has reached a deal to acquire from John de Mol’s Talpa Media the Radio 538 station as well as a collection of TV assets, including Dutch soccer broadcasting rights. The deal announced earlier today sees …

MIAMI, June 26: Yahoo! Telemundo—a commercial venture between NBC Universal’s Telemundo Communications Group and Yahoo!—has launched Gana Mi Casa (My House Wins), the first Spanish-language made-for-broadband home improvement series. Produced by Promofilm and hosted by Humberto Carrera and Karla Gomez, …

LONDON, June 26: British broadcaster Five has been hit with a £300,000 ($600,000) fine by regulator Ofcom over the daytime game show Brainteaser, which on several occasions announced fake names as winners or had production staff pose as winners. News …