PARIS, February 8: MIPDoc has issued a call for projects to be included in its new Co-Productions Seeking Funding initiative, produced in association with World Screen.

NEW YORK, February 8: E1 Television and E1 Music are partnering with recording artist Faith Evans to release a new studio album and reality series, It's All About Faith.

SYDNEY, February 8: XYZnetworks has entered into a multi-year volume deal with RDF Rights to acquire a minimum of 300 hours of first-run exclusive content for its portfolio of channels, including The LifeStyle Channel, LifeStyle YOU and LifeStyle FOOD.

LONDON/TORONTO, February 5: Endemol Worldwide Distribution has licensed The Marriage Ref, Jerry Seinfeld's upcoming series for NBC, to Citytv in Canada.

BURBANK, February 5: Hulu is launching a branded ABC News page featuring short-form content as well as long-form series such as Good Morning America.

TOKYO, February 5: Japanese pubcaster NHK is combining its production subsidiary, NHK Enterprises, Inc. (NEP), with its international arm, Media International Corporation (MICO), effective April 1.

SINGAPORE/HONG KONG, February 5: AXN is bringing back its original production The Amazing Race Asia for a fourth season, following three successful runs on the channel.

TORONTO, February 5: A further season of 13 episodes of the series Star Portraits is being produced by PTV Productions for Bravo! in Canada.

WASHINGTON, D.C./LONDON, February 4: National Geographic Channels International (NGCI) and BBC Two are again teaming with Darlow Smithson Productions for a new season of Engineering Connections with Richard Hammond.

LONDON, February 4: Discovery Networks EMEA has teamed up with the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies (IFRC) to create public-service announcements for the worldwide market that put out a call to action about the relief efforts for Haiti.

TORONTO, February 4: Breakthrough Entertainment has secured a range of broadcast deals throughout Asia, Australia and New Zealand, totaling 125 hours of documentary and factual programming.

NEW YORK, February 3: Ann Julienne, France Télévisions' head of international development, discusses the new structure at the broadcasting group and its doc output, revealing in this video interview details of an upcoming expansion of the well-received Apocalypse: The Second World War series.

WASHINGTON, D.C., February 3: Three channels from the National Geographic Channels International (NGCI) portfolio are headed to the IPTV platform Belgacom in Belgium this month: National Geographic Channel (NGC), NGC HD and Nat Geo Wild HD.

SANTA MONICA, February 3: The sibling duo of Brandy and Ray J Norwood, along with parents Sonja and Willie, will be the focus of a new VH1 series that will explore the family business Rn'B Productions.

BOSTON, February 3: Frontline is developing a new hour-long documentary exploring the aftermath of the earthquake in Haiti, which is slated to air on PBS in the coming months and will be available to the international market from PBS International.

LOS ANGELES, February 2: The launch schedule for OWN: The Oprah Winfrey Network in January 2011 will include a one-hour prime-time documentary that goes behind the scenes of the talk-show host's long-running syndicated series.

NEW YORK, February 2: Robert Dodds has been appointed as the CEO of 19 Entertainment, following Simon Fuller's decision to start up a new entertainment company.

SYDNEY, February 2: Beyond Distribution has added Cream Productions' I Could Do That! to its catalogue and will launch the 13-episode series internationally at MIPTV.

LONDON, February 2: Seven new titles from Frantic Films, totaling 64 hours of factual programming, have been added to Cineflix International's portfolio.

NEW YORK, February 2: The new Spike TV original series Half Pint Brawlers and Scrappers are to make their debut as a block, airing back-to-back, starting in June.

WASHINGTON, D.C., February 2: National Geographic Television (NGT) is producing a new six-hour documentary series in partnership with the Greek broadcaster SKAI that will re-examine the role of Greece in world history.

LONDON, February 2: ITV Studios Global Entertainment has firmed up a range of international deals for the first two seasons of Icon Films' Weird Creatures with Nick Baker, taking the series into more than 40 territories worldwide.

LONDON, February 2: CBS Reality, the British entertainment channel owned by Chello Zone and CBS Studios International, has added three new paranormal series to its schedule: Rescue Mediums, Colin Fry Live and The Three Mediums.

STOCKHOLM, February 2: Viasat Broadcasting has entered into a joint venture with Da Vinci Media to launch a Russian version of the Da Vinci Learning channel in Russia and CIS countries.

TORONTO, February 2: A new multi-year agreement sees CCI Entertainment handling distribution for all properties from Fusion Television outside of North America.

SINGAPORE, February 1: Factual producer Ten Alps has announced a deal to acquire a slate of trade publications from Reed Business Information Asia.

CHICAGO/CULVER CITY, February 1: Design expert and bestselling author Nate Berkus, who regularly appears on The Oprah Winfrey Show, is the star of a new lifestyle series from Harpo Productions and Sony Pictures Television (SPT) that will launch in U.S. syndication this fall.

LOS ANGELES, February 1: The feature-length documentary Family Affair, which made its world premiere at the Sundance Film Festival last week, is the first title to join OWN: The Oprah Winfrey Network's recently announced doc club.

NEW YORK, February 1: The Recording Academy and CBS have teamed up with the music video and entertainment service VEVO to launch The Grammys channel, making footage from 52 years of performances and Grammy-related programming available free of charge and on demand on the VEVO Network within the U.S.

HARRINGTON PARK, February 1: Janson Media has licensed Straight-Up: Helicopters in Action from its Giant Screen Films Collection to Red Media Group of Russia for the HD Life channel.