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SYDNEY, November 10: Southern Star and Endemol have extended their deal for a Sydney-based production joint venture for another three-year term. Endemol Southern Star creates, develops and produces television programming for Australian and New Zealand broadcasters, and exports its intellectual …

NEW YORK, November 10: Production is under way in Toronto on The Dresden Files, the Lionsgate-produced drama that launches on SCI FI Channel in the U.S. in January. Terrence Mann has joined the cast of the supernatural detective series, which …

LONDON, November 10: Channel 4 International has signed a first look distribution deal with Gecko Productions, the new independent outfit established by former Television Corp executives Viv McGrath and Andrew Brann. Channel 4 International has distributed several of McGrath’s previous …

HILVERSUM, November 10: Telescreen has confirmed a range of European presales on its new animated series Frog & Friends. The series is based on the award-winning Frog books by Max Velthuijs and is aimed at kids 4 to 7. Presales …

MONTREAL, November 10: CinéGroupe has begun production on 13 new episodes of the prime-time animated series Tripping the Rift for Canada’s TELETOON and SPACE: the Imagination Station. With the third season, CinéGroupe will have 39 half-hours to offer broadcasters. The …

LOS ANGELES, November 10: LMNO Productions has entered into an exclusive partnership with Chef LaLa and Sliced Up Entertainment to create Spanish- and English-language lifestyle shows, beginning with a daytime series called U’ LaLa. Chef LaLa is best known for …

BURBANK, November 10: The Walt Disney Company’s fourth quarter saw profits more than double to $782 million, while full-year profit was up 33 percent to $3.4 billion. The company delivered full-year revenues of $34.3 billion, a 7 percent gain. For …

MUNICH, November 10: Private equity firms Apax, Goldman Sachs and Permira, among others, are said to be at the top of Haim Saban’s short list of possible buyers for ProSiebenSat.1 Media—a list that doesn’t include Italy’s Mediaset. Silvio Berlusconi’s media …

NEW YORK, November 10: According to Nielsen Media Research, in DVR households in the U.S., more than 78 percent of viewers watch recorded network prime-time shows within two days of their initial broadcast, and 84 percent play them back within …

MUNICH, November 10: ProSiebenSat.1 Group’s third-quarter net profit dropped 45 percent to 13.1 million euros, despite a 3.7 percent revenue gain to 431.3 million euros. The company attributed the profit drop to one-off financial charges: the July redemption of a …