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MUNICH: TANDEM Communications is staffing up, hiring three new executives, including Ben Stoll, who joins as director of development. Stoll was most recently a development executive at Channel 4, working on such series as Shameless, Skins, Run and Misfits. Stoll was previously the head of development and deputy commissioning editor …

LONDON: Channel 4 has acquired the U.K. premiere rights for Brooklyn Nine-Nine, which recently debuted on FOX, from NBCUniversal International Television Distribution. The single-camera ensemble comedy stars Andy Samberg (Saturday Night Live) and Andre Braugher (Men of a Certain Age, Homicide: Life on the Street). It will make its U.K. …

MUNICH: Beta Film is bringing the Hollywood icon Andie MacDowell to MIPCOM to present Cedar Cove, along with the award-winning Gomorrah author Robert Saviano. MacDowell and her co-star Dylan Neal will introduce the H series to buyers. The 14×1-hour Cedar Cove is currently in the U.S. on Hallmark Channel. It …

MAINZ: ZDF Enterprises has added a number of new programs to its four genre divisions: ZDFE.junior, ZDFE.drama, ZDFE.factual and ZDFE.entertainment. From ZDFE.junior, there are shows spanning different age groups. For tweens there is Sam Fox: Extreme Adventures, a live-action series. For preschoolers, the company is presented Q Pootle 5, produced …

STOCKHOLM: Eccho Rights is presenting a slate at MIPCOM that includes entertainment formats such as Jobs without Frontiers and Exit as well as fiction in the form of the drama Karadayi and more. In its entertainment catalogue, Eccho Rights is highlighting Jobs without Frontiers, a factual-entertainment series from Belgium producers …

LOS ANGELES: Electus International has sold six programs, among them Dog and Beth: On the Hunt, to the soon-to-launch AXN Black channel in Central Europe. The deal, worth more than 100 hours of programming, features The Hero, Car Lot Rescue, Duck Commander, Meat Eater and Unsealed Conspiracy. AXN Black, a …

LONDON: Marco Ferrari, the chairman and CEO of Zodiak Active, is exiting the company at the end of the year, to be succeeded by Nicola Drago, currently the senior VP of strategy and business development at the company. Drago will become CEO starting in January 2014. He began at Zodiak …

PARIS: Reed MIDEM is expecting to receive more information on the potential airport strike that could disrupt MIPCOM attendees' travel plans early next week, according to Mike Williams, the company's director of communications, noting, "We've spoken to the French Civil Aviation Authority and there is currently no confirmation that any …

LONDON: David Frank is stepping down as the CEO of Zodiak Media as of mid-October, with Marc-Antoine d’Halluin tapped to succeed him. Frank has been CEO of Zodiak since July 2010, when RDF Media Group was purchased by Zodiak. Prior to that he was CEO of RDF, a company that …

STOCKHOLM: MTG Studios has signed an agreement to acquire a majority stake of 86.8 percent of Nice Entertainment Group for 84.4 million euros ($114 million). Nice is the largest independent group of TV production companies in the Nordic region. Its companies have produced such successful formats as Partaj in Sweden, …