HONG KONG, July 26: CASBAA has added Bharti Airtel, NDTV and Star TV India as new corporate members.

LOS ANGELES, July 26: Saban Brands has awarded the international television distribution rights for the long-running kids' series Power Rangers to MarVista Entertainment.

LONDON, July 26: KoCo Drama, part of the Shed Media Group, is to produce the 3x1-hour event Young James for BBC One, inspired the the true story of veterinarian and author James Herriot.

VANCOUVER, July 26: Thunderbird Films is producing the new situational comedy Mr. Young in association with YTV, which has slated the sitcom for a spring 2011 debut in Canada.

PHILADELPHIA, July 26: In celebration of its fifth anniversary, Sprout has slated the premiere of its first long-form original series, Noodle and Doodle, for September 25.

LONDON, July 26: MTV Networks International (MTVNI) has wrapped up deals on a number of preschool shows across the Asia Pacific and Latin America.

LONDON, July 26: BigTV, KidsCo's first brand extension, has been launched as a complementary offering for kids in Africa, targeting 8- to 14-year-olds.

LONDON, July 26: Pilot Productions has signed a number of deal from across its lifestyle and travel catalogues, including a sale to Scripps Networks.

HARRINGTON PARK, July 26: Janson Media has licensed the hour-long special Assam India: Quest for the One Horned Rhinoceros to Discovery Communications for broadcast across India.

LOS ANGELES, July 26: ScandiTV, which offers news, movies and kids' programming from across Scandinavia, is launching in the U.S. on August 1.

LONDON, July 26: Diane Rankin has joined DRG as the senior VP of acquisitions, coming from a stint at Cineflix.

TORONTO, July 26: Skywriter Media and Entertainment Group has appointed Gwen Jones McCauley as the new VP of distribution and acquisitions.

LUXEMBOURG, July 23: RTL Group is selling British broadcaster Five to publisher Richard Desmond's Northern & Shell company for 125 million euros (£103.5 million).

PARIS, July 23: Net profit for the first half of the year at TF1 increased by 51 percent to 74 million euros, on revenues that were up by 14 percent to 1.28 billion euros.

BEIJING, July 23: China and Singapore have agreed to collaborate on theatrical feature and TV movie production across the live-action, animated and factual genres.

TOKYO/SINGAPORE, July 23: Nick Time is a new Nickelodeon programming block that will air six days a week on Sony Pictures Entertainment's Animax channel in Japan, reaching more than 8.3 million homes.

BOSTON, July 23: PBS has entered into a new relationship with TJL Productions, the outfit behind the My Music series airing across the U.S. on public broadcasting stations, covering nine new musical entertainment specials.

LOS ANGELES, July 23: NBC Universal-owned Chiller this weekend adds the NBC version of Fear Factor—which ran from 2001 to 2006—to its schedule.

NEW YORK, July 23: American Express, music video and entertainment service VEVO and YouTube are collaborating to live stream five concerts this year.

TORONTO, July 23: Twelve projects will receive a total of C$251,000 in grants and no-interest loans from the Hot Docs Canadian International Documentary Festival and Canwest.

OTTAWA, July 23: Ottawa International Animation Festival's industry conference TAC will feature a pitching session on October 20 and 21.

LONDON, July 23: Justine Powell has been tapped as VP of distribution for EMEA at CNBC, where she will drive the business and financial news network's expansion across TV and digital platforms, both to the home and commercial premises such as banks, financial institutions, hotels and airlines.

WASHINGTON, D.C., July 22: Comcast, GE and NBC Universal have submitted a 327-page filing to the Federal Communications Commission in defense of the Comcast/NBCU merger transaction, arguing that the deal won’t be to the detriment of consumers or competitors.

NEW YORK, July 22: Rola Bauer, partner and managing director at Tandem Communications, talks in this video interview about the highly anticipated The Pillars of the Earth, which premieres tomorrow night on Starz in the U.S.

NEW YORK, July 22: CBS is lining up a female-targeted daytime talk show for this fall, to be co-hosted by Julie Chen, Sara Gilbert, Sharon Osbourne, Holly Robinson Peete, Leah Remini and Marissa Jaret Winokur.

NEW YORK, July 22: The Battlestar Galactica prequel Caprica will return to complete its first season on Syfy in January 2011.

TORONTO, July 22: Nickelodeon Germany has picked up both seasons of the live-action kids' adventure series Connor Undercover from Shaftesbury Sales Company.

LONDON, July 22: Channel 4's rights-exploitation division has entered into a development deal with Kinetic Content, the U.S. production outfit established by former RDF USA chief Chris Coelen.

TORONTO/LOS ANGELES/LONDON, July 22: SPE Networks Latin America has licensed the Jason Priestley comedy Call Me Fitz from Entertainment One.

SANTA MONICA, July 22: Endemol USA-owned 51 Minds Entertainment is producing Money Hungry, a new competitive weight-loss series, for VH1, for premiere in August.