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LOS ANGELES, January 26: DISH Network in the U.S. today began carrying Tivi5MONDE, a French-language children's channel from TV5MONDE with a lineup that includes Galactik Football and Marsupilami—Houba Houba Hop!
BETHPAGE, January 26: Mediaset Italia is now available for a monthly fee to subscribers of cable platform Cablevision, which is also bundling the channel with Rai Italia to offer up an iO Italian package.
SILVER SPRING, January 26: Actor Erik Todd Dellums (Homicide: Life on the Street, The Wire) is to narrate the Investigation Discovery true-crime series Killer Trials: Judgment Day, which premieres next month.
TORONTO, January 26: Los Angeles-based Osiris Entertainment has tapped Multiple Media Entertainment to exclusively distribute its catalogue in Canada.
MIAMI, January 25: During his One-on-One session today with World Screen’s Anna Carugati, Emilio Romano, the president of Telemundo Media, stressed the role that original programming has played for the U.S. Hispanic broadcaster, strengthening its ties with audiences and allowing for successful product-integration campaigns with advertisers.
MIAMI, January 25: During a session at NATPE, Jon Feltheimer, the co-chairman and CEO at Lionsgate, and Emilio Azcárraga, Grupo Televisa’s president and CEO, announced a new joint venture for the development and programming of television content in English for the U.S. market.
MIAMI, January 25: This morning’s Coffee With session at NATPE focused on the popularity of the novela genre, with Jessica Rodriguez, the senior VP of Univision Cable Networks; Carlos Sotomayor, the executive producer at Univision Studios; and actress Blanca Soto in conversation with TV Latina’s Rafael Blanco.
PREMIUM, January 25: The documentary acquisitions and co-productions manager at RTI SpA – Mediaset Group talks about what she is seeking for Italia 1 and Retequattro.
LONDON, January 25: Netflix's new streaming service in the U.K. and Ireland has licensed a range of comedy and drama titles from FremantleMedia Enterprises (FME), scoring a total of 115 hours.
LONDON/LOS ANGELES, January 25: Simon Cowell’s Syco Entertainment is working with Overbrook Entertainment—the venture set up by Will Smith and Jada Pinkett-Smith—on a new talent format that aims to find the world's best DJs.
MIAMI, January 25: Starting January 30, all of the prime-time novelas on Univision Network will be offered with the option of English-language closed captioning.
MIAMI, January 25: The new Charlie Sheen series Anger Management and Kelsey Grammer’s Boss are among the series covered in an exclusive deal between Lionsgate-TISA International and Turner Broadcasting System Latin America (TBSLA).
MIAMI, January 25: BBC Worldwide Content & Production has licensed the Dancing with the Stars format to TVN 2 in Panama, which will produce a localized version of the celebrity dance competition.
MIAMI, January 25: Nickelodeon is working with Televisa on an original one-hour U.S. adaptation of the hit Mexican telenovela Reach for a Star (Alcanzar una Estrella) for Nick at Nite.
PARIS, January 25: The Content 360 digital media competition has issued a call for entries for its seventh edition, taking place during MIPTV's MIPCube forum and set to feature a new viral video category created by MSN International.
LONDON, January 25: Cineflix Rights has closed a range of deals with North American and Latin American broadcasters, including Smithsonian and FOX Latin America, among others.
LONDON, January 25: Free-to-air broadcaster Chilevision has snapped up the format rights to the TéVé Media Group title Psychic Challenge from Zodiak Rights.
LONDON, January 25: Brazilian broadcaster Bandeirantes is on board for its own version of the prime-time trivia competition format Still Standing, following a deal with NBCUniversal International.
NEW YORK, January 25: A new TLC reality series to be executive produced by What Not to Wear star Stacy London with BBC Worldwide Productions is currently in the works, with an expected May premiere date.
LOS ANGELES, January 25: The new season of the obstacle course competition series American Ninja Warrior will be split between G4, which will air the preliminary rounds, and NBC, which will broadcast the preliminary finals as well as the grand finale.
LOS ANGELES, January 25: The prime-time series Oprah’s Next Chapter has been given an expanded schedule by OWN: Oprah Winfrey Network, which will begin airing the show Sundays and Mondays through February.
MIAMI, January 25: Delicioso, a one-hour culinary series featuring celebrity chef Ingrid Hoffmann, is joining the Univision Network lineup starting February 4, complemented by a cooking site and mobile app.
LOS ANGELES, January 25: Bellum Entertainment is representing a new half-hour show from celebrity chef Rocco DiSpirito, which has already been cleared on all 17 of the Tribune Broadcasting owned-and-operated stations.
WASHINGTON, D.C., January 25: Four new hires have been made at National Geographic Channel, supporting development and production efforts.
LONDON/LOS ANGELES, January 25: September Films, the DCD Media-owned producer of reality and entertainment programming, has tapped Lisa Mao as its first development VP, based in the Los Angeles office.
NEW YORK, January 24: Merger and acquisitions activity in the entertainment and media sector is expected to rise this year, according to PwC, spurred by OTT and social-networking companies, as well as online gaming firms.
LONDON, January 24: Britons watched 4 hours and 2 minutes of linear TV a day in 2011, matching the record high set in 2010, with the commercial broadcasters accounting for 64 percent of all viewing.
PREMIUM, January 24: The senior VP of programming, scheduling, multiplatform, acquisitions and co-productions at Disney Channels Worldwide shares his strategy for entertaining U.S. audiences.
MIAMI, January 24: Comedy Central will start broadcasting in Latin America as of February 1, delivering programming from the U.S. channel, acquisitions, local productions and more.
TORONTO, January 24: The Vancouver-based Force Four Entertainment is producing a nine-episode Canadian version of the hit reality dating show The Bachelor, which will launch exclusively on Citytv this fall.
