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COLUMBIA, April 16: Retirement Living TV (RLTV), the first network created for people aged 55 and over, has announced its first international distribution agreement, inking an alliance with the Canada’s S-VOX. Retirement Living TV content will be distributed on S-VOX’s …

LOS ANGELES, April 16: Montreal-based Image in Media will produce at least two films per year for distribution by Regent Worldwide Sales as part of a new alliance between the two companies. Gene George, the president of Regent Worldwide Sales, …

CANNES/LOS ANGELES, April 16: Nickelodeon International has picked up the Asia-Pacific, European and Latin American rights to Taffy Entertainment’s Growing Up Creepie for launch early next year. The agreement also names Nickelodeon as Taffy’s licensing and merchandising agent in specified …

CANNES, April 16: French pay-TV broadcaster Canal Plus has acquired two drama series from ALL3MEDIA International, it was announced at MIPTV today. From award-winning film and television producer Ecosse Films, Cape Wrath is a thriller about a family living in …

CENTURY CITY, April 13: Tabitha Calero, formerly with The Robert Evans Company, and ex-MTV Networks staffer Gregory Diamond have launched a new TV and film outfit, Enigmatic Pictures, with production already underway on the documentary feature Crime and Passion. The …

BEIJING/BRUSSELS, April 13: The European Union will not join the U.S.’s complaint to the World Trade Organization against China over the rampant piracy in that market, wire reports indicate. According to Reuters, Viviane Reding, the EU’s Information Society and Media …

PARIS, April 13: Philippe Rouxel, the deputy managing director of Lagardere Networks International (LNI), has been named worldwide distribution VP at the French international news network France 24. Beginning this month, Rouxel will manage the global distribution of France 24 …

NEW YORK/SAN MATEO, April 13: Beginning this September, the Nielsen Company and Integrated Media Measurement Inc. (IMMI), the developer of an integrated media measurement system, will launch a co-branded service that will provide the industry’s first ongoing audience estimates of …

WASHINGTON, D.C., April 13: Smithsonian Networks, the joint venture of Showtime Networks and the Smithsonian Institution, has lined up alliances with non-fiction producers around the world, bringing more than 100 hours of HD programs to its soon-to-be launched factual content …

LONDON, April 13: Babelgum, a new global Internet TV platform, will be featuring a previously unseen documentary from acclaimed director Spike Lee at MIPTV next week, with Lee himself on hand to showcase the content, which was originally commissioned to …