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MEXICO CITY, February 2: Televisa and Cartoon Network are co-producing the live-action series CQ.
WASHINGTON, D.C., February 2: Parthenon Entertainment has been commissioned by the National Geographic Channel to produce Light the Ocean, a one-hour HD special to premiere in spring 2012.
LONDON/OSLO, February 2: The Chinese children’s channel Toonmax is adapting the international game show Blobo, which it picked up from Nordic World, for a local version to air in the second half of 2012.
HONG KONG/LOS ANGELES, February 2: A new office for Saban Capital Group has been set up in Hong Kong, to be led by Sumeet Jaisinghani, who has relocated from the company's Los Angeles post.
NEW YORK, February 2: Asia TV USA has named Timothy Boell as the group head of distribution for the company.
BEVERLY HILLS, February 2: A2E2, a joint venture between A Squared Entertainment and Tata Elxsi, has named Harish Seth the chief financial officer, while Mary Moore Kean has been appointed as licensing director.
PREMIUM, February 1: Original content, shorter windows on imported shows and driving HD and DVR rollouts are key to increasing Middle Eastern pay-TV platform OSN’s subscriber base, its CEO, David Butorac, tells World Screen Newsflash.
BURBANK/MUMBAI, February 1: The Walt Disney Company is taking a controlling interest in the Indian entertainment outfit UTV Software Communications, with plans to integrate the operations of the two companies.
TOKYO, February 1: Kazuo Hirai is taking over as the president and CEO of Sony Corporation, while Howard Stringer moves into the role of chairman of the board of directors in June.
BONN, February 1: Deutsche Welle (DW) has revised its TV program and online presence to reinforce its position in the international media landscape, Guido Baumhauer, DW’s managing director of distribution, marketing and strategy, tells World Screen Newsflash.
OAKBROOK TERRACE, February 1: Coinstar, owner of the Redbox movie-rental kiosks, has decided not to renew its contract with Warner Bros., which had imposed a 56-day delay for access to DVDs and Blu-ray disks.
LONDON, February 1: Endemol is reorganizing its international sports business, as co-managing directors Gregg Oldfield and Lawrence Duffy exit the group.
TEL AVIV, February 1: The CW network in the U.S. has placed a pilot order for Joey Dakota, a new series based on Armoza Formats’ Danny Hollywood.
LONDON, February 1: Zodiak Rights has signed a two-year development deal with Asylum Entertainment.
NEW YORK, February 1: Viacom International Media Networks has landed a raft of new deals for the animated Nickelodeon comedy series Fanboy & Chum Chum.
ABU DHABI, February 1: twofour54 has secured new international broadcast deals for its children’s series Driver Dan’s Story Train.
LOS ANGELES, February 1: Mnet, the U.S. network targeting Asian Americans, is now available 24 hours a day to Verizon FiOS subscribers and is replacing the Soundtrack Channel.
LONDON, January 31: BSkyB, which posted strong half-year profits, is planning to launch a new Internet TV service, positioned as an alternative for people who don't currently subscribe to pay TV.
PREMIUM, January 31: William Graff, the VP of programming for BBC Worldwide Channels Latin America/U.S. Hispanic, talks to World Screen Newsflash about scheduling the Spanish-language CBeebies service.
NEW YORK/LOS ANGELES, January 31: Clear Channel has acquired a minority stake in Ryan Seacrest Productions, which is behind the hit Kardashians franchise as well as a number of other reality shows.
MUNICH, January 31: Sky Deutschland and Warner Bros. International Television Distribution have reached a long-term multiplatform agreement that includes exclusive SVOD rights for all new releases and exclusive pay-TV rights during the license period of the first pay window.
LONDON, January 31: The highly anticipated thriller The River, from Steven Spielberg and Oren Peli, will make its U.K. debut on iTunes 24 hours after its U.S. launch on ABC.
LONDON/SANTA MONICA, January 31: A range of films from the Miramax library are being offered on demand to BT Vision customers in the U.K. through the signing of a new pact.
LOS ANGELES, January 31: The new drama Luck, which stars Dustin Hoffman and Nick Nolte, has been renewed for a second season by HBO.
LONDON, January 31: Shine Group chairman and CEO Elisabeth Murdoch has been confirmed for this year's MacTaggart Lecture, while Steven Moffat, Mark Gatiss and Sue Vertue are on board to host a Sherlock master class.
HONG KONG, January 31: New first-of-its kind reach and frequency analysis from CASBAA shows higher returns on media investment in multichannel TV advertising.
BEVERLY HILLS, January 31: Relativity Media and Hasbro are developing and producing a live-action film based on Stretch Armstrong, an action-hero brand from the ’70s.
NEW YORK, January 31: Spike TV has picked up three new original non-scripted series, including the reality competition Full Bounty.
LOS ANGELES, January 31: The Toon Goggles website has inked an agreement with Your Family Entertainment (YFE), scoring 240 hours of content.
SANTA MONICA, January 31: The Game Show Network (GSN) is producing a pilot for The American Bible Challenge, an original one-hour game show in which contestants compete based on their Biblical knowledge.
