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CANNES/LONDON, October 9: Fremantle International Distribution has announced a slate of deals on The Janice Dickinson Modeling Agency, a reality series featuring the former supermodel that aired on Oxygen in the U.S. Ahead of its MIPCOM launch this week, the …

CANNES, October 9: MoonScoop and Classic Media announced in Cannes today that they are teaming to produce and distribute a new Casper the Friendly Ghost animated series, with India’s DQ Entertainment on board as a co-production partner and TF1 as …

LONDON, October 9: The British outfit Galleon Entertainment is working with Sony BMG Music Entertainment (U.K.) to develop and launch a multi-platform global entertainment property, Apollo's Pad. Slated for a summer 2007 launch, the property fuses music downloads and animated …

CANNES, October 9: Ahead of the first day of MIPCOM, E! Networks announced the sale of more than 800 hours of programming to Asian broadcasters. E! has sold 830 hours of content to broadcasters in China, India, Japan, Korea, Malaysia, …

CANNES, October 9: More than C$720 million in deals were secured or facilitated at the Banff Television Festival earlier this year, the event’s organizers said in Cannes today. Festival CEO Robert Montgomery noted, “The results of this latest delegate survey …

CANNES, October 9: Animal Planet International has commissioned Tigress Productions to produce the new 13×30-minute series Going Ape, about the protection of primates. The show is slated to launch in the U.K. in November, followed by the launch in the …

CANNES, October 9: At a press conference in Cannes today, the International Academy of Television Arts & Sciences announced the nominees for the 34th International Emmy Awards, with Brazil and Germany each receiving a record five nominations. There are a …

NEW YORK, October 9: Classic Media has entered into a long-term joint venture with Premavision/Clokey Productions to manage all rights in connection with the Gumby brand. Under the terms of the agreement, Classic will manage the U.S. and international television, …

LONDON, October 6: A slate of features from the Lionsgate library, including Dirty Dancing and Reservoir Dogs, will be made available on a VOD basis on BT’s next-generation TV service, BT Vision, which launches this fall. Other titles in the …

LONDON, October 6: Former U.S. Vice President Al Gore’s youth-oriented, user-generated content network Current TV has made its first international deal, securing a slot for a localized version of the channel in the U.K. and Ireland on BSkyB. Current TV …