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NEW YORK, October 2: BBC America, which passed the 50 million mark this summer, today announced three new drama co-productions and a slate of new acquisitions. In making the announcement, Darren Childs, the MD of global TV channels at BBC …

LOS ANGELES, October 2: Production began today in Vancouver on A.M.P.E.D., a pilot from Twentieth Century Fox Television’s Fox 21 division and former X-Files show runners Frank Spotnitz and Vince Gilligan for Spike TV. Joining executive producers Spotnitz and Gilligan …

LONDON, October 2: The North American Sports Network (NASN) will launch in France on CANALSAT’s digital platform tomorrow, reaching 2.6 million homes as part of the CANALSAT LIBREMENT basic package, extending NASN’s European footprint to 4 million households. Amory B. …

SYDNEY, September 29: Film Australia has made a selection of clips from its archives available on Google Video. The organization currently provides over 950 digitized clips for preview purposes through its online stock-shot catalogue, and has an ongoing program to …

BARCELONA, September 29: Neptuno Films is teaming with Portal Latino, a subsidiary of Sociedad Digital de Autores y Editores (SDAE), for a new IPTV kids’ channel in Spain named El Gato Feliz (Happy Cat). The channel launched yesterday, reaching Orange …

LONDON, September 29: Sony Pictures Television International (SPTI) has acquired the Asian format rights to five game shows from 12 Yard Productions. The deal includes Beg, Borrow or Steal, No Brainer, In It To Win It, Eggheads and Dirty Money. …

SINGAPORE, September 29: The MediaCorp Studios’ format Project SuperStar, which was licensed into Malaysia last year following its successful Singaporean rollout, has been acquired by Vietnam’s Ho Chi Minh City Television (HTV). HTV will apply the talent format to its …

MIAMI, September 29: Animus Entertainment Group has concluded a number of sales on the gourmet health show Romancing your Palate and the environmental documentary One World, presented by Olivia Newton-John. The 6×30-minute Romancing your Palate, an Animus/Claxson co-production, has been …

PARIS, September 29: A variety of Twentieth Century Fox’s current and library films will be offered on-demand to subscribers of CANALPLAY, Groupe CANAL+’s VOD platform. “We continue to pursue distribution opportunities which make it more convenient for consumers to access …

STOCKHOLM, September 29: Modern Times Group’s Viasat Broadcasting is working with Danish broadband network operator Dansk Bredband to distribute its channels over IPTV. The move follows the successful launch of similar IPTV offerings in Sweden and Norway in 2004 and …