CIMG Closes International Deals for Reality Programs

LAS VEGAS, January 28:
Comcast International Media Group (CIMG) has inked multiple licensing deals and
renewals for its stable of reality programs, totaling more than 260 hours, and
will introduce two new celebrity-based series to buyers at NATPE this week.

The international hit Girls
of the Playboy Mansion was picked
up for renewals across the board, as well as new licensees, with deals
including Viva MTV in Germany, Zee TV in India and Paris Premiere in France.
The Style Network’s Kimora: Life in the Fab Lane was acquired by channels such as Norway's FEM
Network, the Philippines' 2nd Avenue and South Korea's On Style. Meanwhile, Sunset
Tan has been licensed by Jim TV in
Belgium, TV400 in Sweden and Velvet in the Philippines.

CIMG will also be
introducing two new celebrity-based reality series for buyers: Keeping Up
with the Kardashians and Snoop
Dogg’s Father Hood. Keeping Up
with the Kardashians follows
Hollywood party girl Kim Kardashian and her blended family of
10—including her sisters and business partners, step dad/Olympian Bruce
Jenner and her mom, Kris, who is also her manager. The 6×30-minute series Snoop
Dogg’s Father Hood also takes a
look at family life, this time of rapper and entrepreneur Snoop Dogg.

"Today, one can watch
CIMG's celebrity-reality programming literally on every continent, as well as
on the way to a destination via inflight," said Duccio Donati, the senior
VP of CIMG. "Our content continues to attract a broad and diverse
audience, demonstrated by our latest deals with Nine Network of Australia for
our extremely popular series Girls of the Playboy Mansion, On Style in Korea for Kimora: Life in the Fab
Lane and the U.K.'s E4 channel for
Sunset Tan. We expect similar
success at NATPE 2008 with our latest breakout hits Keeping Up with the
Kardashians and Snoop Dogg’s
Father Hood."

—By Kristin
Brzoznowski