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LONDON, June 30: BKN Home Entertainment, a division of BKN International AG, has signed a deal a Universal Music Operations (UMO) for the exclusive distribution, in the U.K. and Ireland, of its DVD and home entertainment products. “I am delighted …

BARCELONA, June 30: Children’s entertainment producers, Neptuno Films chose the Barcelona Aquarium for the location of the company’s 15th anniversary. Hosted by Neptuno’s co-founders, Cristina Brandner and Josep Viciana, the event featured a big band, magicians and caricaturists, for a …

SAN FRANCISCO, June 30: VIZ Pictures, a new sister company of VIZ Media, is set to release the romantic comedy Train Man: Densha Otoko in on DVD in North America in January. Adapted from the Japanese bestseller by Hitori Nakano, …

LONDON, June 30: Granada International has appointed Jennifer Harrington as head of formats. Harrington, who was sales director at Twentieth Century Fox International Television, will be based in Granada’s London office. She will be responsible for the sale of Granada …

BUDAPEST, June 30: HBO Central Europe has named Ondrej Zach as country manager for the Czech Republic and Slovakia. Zach will have overall responsibility for HBO basic and premium channels in the Czech Republic and Slovakia, and will have oversight …

TORONTO, June 30: The Protest Revolution, a four-part documentary series produced for BBC4 and Canada's VisionTV has wrapped up principle photography. Filmed in high definition by IWC Media and Cream Productions on location in the U.K., Europe and North America, …

LOS ANGELES, June 30: Univision shareholders have filed two suits against the company and its board over their handling of the sale of the leading Spanish-language network in the U.S. to a consortium of private investors earlier this week. According …

MUNICH, June 30: Discovery Communications will be launching DMAX in September 2006 in place of XXP, a free-to-air channel the company acquired earlier this year. DMAX, a fact-based entertainment channel, will focus on the lifestyles and interests of male viewers …

SYDNEY/LONDON, June 30: Southern Star International has been chosen by the U.K. production entity talkbackTHAMES as the distributor for Little Devil. Along with the acquisition of Little Devil Southern Star will be looking to develop further drama projects with talkbackTHAMES. …

BURBANK/LONDON, June 30: Following the L.A. Screenings, Warner Bros. International Television has sold three series to the U.K. channel LIVINGtv. Justice, from Emmy-winning executive producer Jerry Bruckheimer offers a behind-the-scenes look at how high-profile cases are tried in the media …