TORONTO, March 9: Hot Docs will welcome a record eight official delegations at this year's edition: Abu Dhabi, France, Germany, Italy, Malaysia, the Nordic region, the U.K. and U.S.

ABU DHABI, March 8: Fox International Channels is stepping up its activities in the Middle East, partnering with twofour54 on three major projects that were announced at the Abu Dhabi Media Summit.

LONDON, March 8: The lifestyle channel Fine Living Network (FLN) will launch on April 1 across more than 60 countries in Europe, the Middle East and Africa.

NEW DELHI, March 8: ESPN STAR Sports has signed a deal with Media Star Global to produce and air the Indian football reality show Super Soccer Star.

HARRINGTON PARK, March 8: Janson Media has licensed the non-theatrical rights to Dinosaurs: Giants of Patagonia from its Giant Screen Film collection to EDIMA of France.

TORONTO, March 8: Cream Productions has completed production on the new 4x1-hour Aftermath series for National Geographic Channel in the U.S. and History Television in Canada, and the show will be launched at MIPTV by ITV Studios Global Entertainment.

NEW YORK, March 5: Martha Stewart Living Omnimedia (MSLO) has greenlit a new eight-episode unscripted series, called Help Me, Martha!, which is being produced in association with Mark Burnett.

SYDNEY, March 5: Beyond Distribution has licensed the sixth season of Mythbusters to Discovery Networks Asia-Pacific (DNAP), which has additionally agreed to take on all episodes of the series being produced.

NEW DELHI, March 4: Discovery Networks Asia-Pacific has scored a carriage deal for Discovery HD with the DTH platform Sun Direct, bringing the total number of channels it operates in India to six.

SYDNEY, March 4: Beyond Distribution will be offering up more than 200 hour of new content in their catalogue for MIPTV, spanning genres such as children's, factual, documentary, science and crime.

LONDON, March 4: Two key executive appointments have been made within Five's programming department, where there's a new commissioning executive for daytime and soaps and commissioning editor of factual.

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.

NEW YORK, March 3: In this video interview, Clémence Coppey, the commissioning editor for history at France 2, talks about her approach to commissioning and the importance of finding projects that will speak to audiences of all ages.

BRUSSELS/SILVER SPRING, March 3: Discovery Communications is launching the female-skewing lifestyle channel TLC globally, starting in Norway on March 4.

WASHINGTON, D.C., March 3: National Geographic is launching the new network Nat Geo Wild, which spotlights the the animal kingdom, on March 29, along with an HD feed.

TORONTO, March 3: The new 13-episode docu-drama The Cupcake Girls, which follows two women who are childhood best friends and business partners in a cupcake company, will launch on Canada's W Network on April 4 with two back-to-back episodes.

LONGWOOD, March 3: The Television Syndication Company (TVS) has picked up the U.S. syndication rights for the DIY home-improvement series Ron Hazelton's HouseCalls, previously distributed by MGM.

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.

NEW YORK, March 2: The HBO documentary Afghan Star, set to debut March 18, explores how Afghanistan is dealing with modernity and pop culture after 30 years of war and five years of Taliban rule.

WASHINGTON, D.C., March 2: National Geographic Channels International (NGCI) is co-producing the second season of Mega Factories with Hoff Productions, and will debut the six-part series internationally on National Geographic Channel this month.

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.

NEW YORK, March 2: The new Bravo docu-series 9 by Design spotlights the husband and wife team of Bob and Cortney Novogratz, who are the owners of the New York design firm Sixx Design.

LONDON, March 1: The Royal Television Society (RTS) has unveiled the shortlist for the Programme Awards, which recognize the work of actors, presenters, writers and production teams, along with honoring the programs themselves.

LOS ANGELES, March 1: TLC will premiere the one-hour special Paranormal Court, which follows renowned psychic medium Robert Hansen as he helps families find closure with the passing of a loved one, on March 27 at 10 p.m.

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.

PALISADES PARK, March 1: Alfred Haber Distribution has lined up a number of documentaries to showcase for buyers at MIPDOC, including the environmental-themed 100 Heartbeats with Jeff Corwin.

NEW YORK, March 1: The documentary Aftershock: Surviving Haiti, from Toronto-based producer Claude Barnes of Keep It In The Family Productions for Canada's Equator HD channel, spotlights the second stage of the earthquake-relief efforts in Haiti.

TORONTO, March 1: BuzzTaxi Communications has added three new titles from Associated Producers to its catalogue and will debut the shows at MIPTV.

LONDON, February 26: A new drama set to air on BBC One recounts the legend of Atlantis, which is also the subject of a companion documentary slated for BBC Two.

LOS ANGELES, February 26: Comcast International Media Group (CIMG) has licensed more than 140 hours in the Asia Pacific, with sales including such titles as The Daily 10 and 2 Months, $2 Million.