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LONDON: Sky Vision has hired Alex Fraser as its new head of acquisitions for scripted, entertainment and North America, coming as the company clinched its first round of distribution deals with the U.S. networks Discovery Channel and TLC as well as the U.K.'s BBC. Fraser was formerly the VP of …

CANNES: Imagina International Sales is slated to present a number of new titles at MIPCOM, including Lolita Cabaret, a format being produced by Globomedia for Antena3. Lolita Cabaret follows a group of performers from an old cabaret. The scripted show is due to debut in Spain over the next few …

CANNES: There are two brand-new action/thriller movies from Daro Film Distribution: Beyond Justice, starring Vinnie Jones and Mischa Barton, and Disengaged, starring Martin Sheen and Mena Suvari. Dolph Lundgren, known from his work in such films as The Expendables and Universal Soldier, stars in Rescue 3,  an action-adventure series from …

LONDON: BBC director-general Tony Hall has announced a 20-percent increase in funding for arts television programs, with a number of landmark commissions and partnerships. Hall unveiled the new pan-BBC arts brand BBC Arts at…, which will take viewers into the heart of live music, theater and arts events around the …

Power is co-producing a brand-new lavish period drama, New Worlds, along with Company Pictures for Channel 4 in the U.K. The four-hour mini-series, set in the 1680s in England and America, charts a story of love, loss and the fight for the freedoms and liberties we enjoy today. Along with …

CANNES: STV Productions and Red Arrow Entertainment Group have entered into a strategic international partnership for co-investment, co-development and worldwide distribution of new projects. The agreement, which spans multiple years, will see the two companies working closely to develop new formats for the U.K. and international markets. The new projects …

CANNES: Lionsgate, which is presenting a variety of titles in Cannes, has appointed Faruk Alatan and Gabriella Ballabio as its exclusive sales agents in Italy. In their new roles, Alatan and Ballabio will represent the company's current catalogue of 30 television programs on 20 networks in the U.S., as well …

MUNICH: Tele München Gruppe has closed its second streaming deal with Amazon-owned LOVEFiLM in Germany, delivering a range of SVOD titles from Concorde Filmverleih, among other properties. Titles include Steven Soderbergh's Magic Mike, Woody Allen's Midnight in Paris and The Iron Lady, plus Iron Man 3, Warm Bodies and Twilight, …

LONDON: Annual sales of U.K. television programming around the world increased in 2012, according to the latest annual survey from Pact, which finds that the U.S. remains the most lucrative market for the British exports and China is rising in prominence. Sales from the U.K. to the U.S. for TV …

CANNES: FilmBox has undergone a brand refresh, introducing new channel logos and on-air looks to its movie services across Central and Eastern Europe. The refresh was done in a move to better position FilmBox as a growing and continuously expanding brand, as well as to shift from a “package” feeling …