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LONDON, October 18: All3Media International has taken on the finished program and format distribution rights to Tearaway Teen To Beauty Queen, a North One production. The show takes a former beauty queen and asks her to transform nine difficult teen …

LONDON/NEW YORK, October 18: Sportshows Television, the TV production arm of IPTV company Narrowstep, and The Interpublic Group’s Octagon CSI have won the contract to produce and distribute the 2007 International Sailing Federation's ISAF Sailing World Championships. The two companies …

LOS ANGELES, October 18: The video-on-demand service Eurocinema has signed an exclusive deal with independent film distributor First Run Features, with titles like La Petite Lili and Kira's Reason launching on the platform in December. In making the announcement, Larry …

MADRID, October 18: TVE (Television Española) secured a range of deals at MIPCOM last week, including licensing the serial Ana and the Seven Kids to Kanal D in Romania and the documentaries Nearby Paradises and Enchanted Planet to ERT in …

LOS ANGELES, October 18: Genius Products will release the DVD of BKN’s new animated feature Kong: Return to the Jungle in the U.S. on November 21. The 3-D CGI feature was produced by Rick Ungar and was inspired by the …

NEW YORK, October 18: 4Kids Entertainment has upped Julie Dill to VP of marketing and licensing and Alyssa J. Tucker to SVP of marketing and licensing sales, as the company begins the multiplatform rollouts of its new brands Viva Piñata …

MUNICH, October 18: ProSiebenSat.1 Group has acquired a 30-percent stake in Lokalisten media, which operates Lokalisten.de, a leading social-networking site in Germany that has about 325,000 members. The deal follows the German broadcasting group’s September acquisition of the user-generated-content site …

NEW YORK, October 18: Time Warner Cable is planning an initial public offering, wire reports indicate, applying to list its shares on the New York Stock Exchange under the ticker TWC. According to the AP, the platform, the second-largest cable …

SEATTLE, October 18: A number of titles from Showtime, including the critically acclaimed drama The L Word and the pilot for the new show Dexter, have joined the lineup on the digital content download service Amazon Unbox, which launched in …

LOS ANGELES, October 18: Image Entertainment has won its proxy battle with Lionsgate, with all seven of the home entertainment outfit’s board members reelected, defeating the independent studio’s nominees. Lionsgate holds a 19-percent stake in Image and has been trying …