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SYDNEY: Turner’s CNN International has rolled out on Fetch TV in Australia.

CANNES: A ratings success in Asia, ManBirth is a new social-experiment format on offer from Keshet International (KI) in which soon-to-be fathers get the opportunity to go through the mental and physical challenges their partners experience during pregnancy.

CANNES: Headlining Zodiak Rights’ MIPCOM slate is the second season of Versailles.

LOS ANGELES/AMSTERDAM: Kyle MacLachlan will be in attendance at MIPCOM, and will be the guest of honor at an exclusive cocktail party hosted by CBS Studios International to promote the highly-anticipated return of the new Twin Peaks.

LOS ANGELES: Gina Brogi has been promoted to president of global distribution at Twentieth Century Fox Television Distribution.

NEW YORK/PARIS: Laurine Garaude, the director of the television division at Reed MIDEM, tells World Screen Newsflash that more than 14,000 delegates are expected at MIPCOM this year, including a record number of buyers, with close to 5,000 anticipated on site.

NEW YORK: The digital edition of World Screen—featuring interviews with Sony Corporation’s Kazuo Hirai, Disney|ABC’s Ben Sherwood, Kiefer Sutherland, Shonda Rhimes and much more—is now available. You can also access the digital editions of TV Europe, TV Kids, TV Drama, TV Formats, TV Real, TV Asia, TV MEA, TV Latina and TV Listings.

LOS ANGELES: Electus International is heading to MIPCOM with a lineup of original and third-party titles, including an event series that explores the infamous JonBenét Ramsey murder.

TEL AVIV: Dori Media Group is preparing for MIPCOM with a slate that showcases new formats and titles, including Dumb.

CANNES: From Pau Freixas, creator of The Red Band Society, comes the crime drama I Know Who You Are.