LONDON, March 10: CBS has given a second-season order for Undercover Boss for the 2010-11 broadcast season.

HILVERSUM, March 10: In continuing its global expansion efforts, John de Mol's Talpa Media has set up a co-owned joint venture with Portuguese TV producer CBV.

LONDON, March 8: ITV Studios' newly created entertainment format Marco's Kitchen Burnout has been commissioned by ITV1 for broadcast in spring.

LONDON, March 8: October Films' Rude Tube International has been sold by RDF Rights into a number of new territories, including Denmark, Hungary and Japan.

HILVERSUM, March 4: John de Mol's Talpa Media has set up a co-owned joint venture with Spanish production outfit Boomerang TV Group.

LONDON, March 4: The game-show format Cash at Your Door joins the slate of ALL3MEDIA International, which already has pre-launch options secured for the show.

NEW YORK, March 3: The Producers' Forum is a new two-day initiative at MIPTV, organized in association with World Screen. Kicking off a series on the panelists at Producers' Forum, David Lyle, the president of Fox Reality Channel, discusses the Entertainment Master Class on selling and protecting formats.

BURBANK, March 2: Dancing with the Stars is returning to ABC on March 22, when all 11 couples will take to the dance floor for the first time in the new season.

LONDON, March 2: UKTV has picked up the broadcast rights for the tenth season of ABC's Dancing with the Stars from BBC Worldwide to air on its entertainment channel Watch.

LONDON, March 2: The premiere of Pilipinas Got Talent, the Filipino adaptation of FremantleMedia's hit competition format, debuted on ABS-CBN with a 38.7-percent audience share.

LONDON, March 1: Endemol has picked up a controlling interest in WeiT Media, a Russian production company headed up by Timur Weinstein that works across drama, entertainment, animation, feature films and TV movies, documentaries and digital content.

TORONTO, March 1: Canwest Broadcasting and Lone Eagle Entertainment are bringing the hit obstacle-course format Wipeout to Canada for TVtropolis to air in 2011.

LONDON, March 1: Maximilian Bolenius is to serve as the VP of sales for German-speaking Europe and Eastern Europe at FremantleMedia Enterprises (FME), joining from a role as director of sales at ZDF Enterprises.

TEL AVIV, February 25: Group revenues at Dori Media Group for 2009 were down 3 percent to $48.7 million, with an increase in TV channel revenues helping to offset declines from the sales of telenovelas.

LONDON, February 25: Power is expanding its business with the launch of a new division, Powerlocal, which will be led by Sue Green as managing director.

LONDON, February 25: Endemol UK has promoted former deputy creative director Nick Mather to the role of head of entertainment.

LONDON, February 25: ITV Studios has been commissioned to produce the new entertainment format The Door, from the team behind the hits I'm a Celebrity...Get Me out of Here! and Hell's Kitchen, for ITV1.

TEL AVIV, February 24: Armoza Formats' game show The Bubble has been ordered for full seasons by SVT in Sweden and Holland's BNN/NED3.

LONDON, February 23: The ALL3MEDIA International weight-loss format Village on a Diet is headed into production in Canada and new format options have been signed for the show in Europe.

LONDON, February 23: Outright Distribution has notched up another format deal for the factual-entertainment show The World's Strictest Parents, with France's M6 signing up for a local version.

PARIS, February 23: French entertainment producer Mistral Production is taking its format distribution business in house, appointing Kirsten Calteau to a sales and acquisitions position.

TEL AVIV/PARIS, February 22: Banijay Entertainment has picked up the rights to develop Dori Media Group's interactive reality format uMan in six territories in Western Europe.

SÃO PAULO/DAKAR, February 22: Globo TV International is looking to further build on its African presence as it heads to DISCOP Africa in Senegal this week, with 50 countries on the continent already having broadcast a production from the Brazilian media group.

STOCKHOLM, February 22: Madelene Hansson takes on the role of international business and sales director at Metronome Film & Television, joining the company from New York-based production outfit Embassy Row.

BURBANK, February 18: Under the terms of a new agreement, Warner Horizon Television and Talpa Media will jointly develop new series for U.S. cable and broadcast networks based on reality and game-show formats created and owned by Talpa.

MUNICH, February 18: SevenOne International's sciencetainment magazine show Galileo is launching on Prima TV in Romania on February 22 at 5:30 p.m., with the local version to be hosted by TV reporter Marius Saizu.

LONDON, February 18: Self-made millionaire Hilary Devey will work to transform struggling small British companies in The Business Inspector, which Optomen will be producing for Five.

LONDON, February 17: The hit format Come Dine with Me continues to notch up sales for ITV Studios Global Entertainment, with 445 new episodes commissioned in Eastern Europe.

LOS ANGELES/LONDON, February 17: Sony Pictures Television and Harpo Productions have secured sales for both the finished series and format of the daytime talk show The Dr. Oz Show in a number of territories outside the U.S.

PARIS, February 16: The Producers’ Forum is a new initiative at MIPTV this year, organized in association with World Screen, that will feature a range of workshops and panels on April 12 and 13, including one with MGM's Gary Marenzi, E1's John Morayniss and ITV Studios' Lee Bartlett.