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NewsAardman secures deals for Shaun
Bristol-based Aardman Animations is looking into setting up its own international distribution arm, after securing a raft of pre-sales for new BBC series Shaun the Sheep (40 x 7-minutes) at last week's Mipcom.
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NewsBBC Worldwide reunites with Ragdoll
BBC Worldwide has signed a deal with Anne Wood's Ragdoll to handle worldwide distribution of the Teletubbies creator's next two children's series, In The Night Garden and Tronji.
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NewsTarget picks up Fifi's follow up
Target Entertainment has picked up distribution of Chapman Entertainment's follow up to the successful pre-school series Fifi and the Flowertots.
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NewsLittle Princess begins production
UK animation house The Illuminated Film Company has begun production on new pre-school series The Little Princess, based on the successful books of writer/illustrator Tony Ross.
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ER picks up more Barbie
Entertainment Rights has struck an agreement with Mattel for the home entertainment and TV rights to the next three animated Barbie movies, bringing the total number of Barbie films distributed by ER to nine.
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Abbey inks European deals
Abbey Home Media Group's animated pre-school series Wide Eye has been picked up by German children's channel Ki.Ka, while infant learning series, Baby Bright has been released on DVD in France by UFG.
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First broadcaster lined up for My Teen Genie
London-based Talent Television and leading French producer/distributor MoonScoop have signed French public broadcaster France 2 as co-developer on the new teen live-action series My Teen Genie.
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All3Media tops $1m with Serious sales
All3Media International has sold all three of the available series from the the BBC children's factual strand Serious? to Discovery Kids in the US.
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NewsFive extends rights to Noddy until 2012
Five has picked up seven more years of children's classic Noddy, extending its rights deal to 2012.
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NewsITV London charts 7/7 attacks
ITV London is to revisit this summer's terrorist attacks that crippled the capital, with two documentaries from Mosaic Films.
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NewsBBC's Africa Live heads to America
Africa Live, the concert movie featured in BBC4's Africa Lives season in August, has been sold to US public service network, PBS.
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NewsJamie's Great Escape heads to Australia
9.45am: TV chef Jamie Oliver is heading Down Under after Fremantle International Distribution signed a deal with Australian broadcaster Network Ten.
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NewsCommander In Chief exec producer defends show
The French executive producer of new US drama Commander In Chief has hit back at UK terrestrial broadcasters' claims the show is 'jingoistic'.
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NewsITV2 brings back Oprah
8am: American talk show queen Oprah Winfrey is to return to UK screens after a three-year absence.
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Twofour tie-up
Twofour Broadcast and Australian production company Landmark Television have struck a format and co-production deal. Landmark is already developing Twofour's format Family Firm for TVNZ, and Twofour is pitching several Landmark formats to UK broadcasters. The two companies are also developing a global lifestyle series for Discovery Asia and Discovery ...
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ID sells Nigella
Nigella Lawson's 20-episode ITV daytime talk show has been sold to cable broadcasters RAISat in Italy and XYZ in Australia through ID Distribution. The company has also shifted forthcoming US cable show Nigella Feasts, a co-production between Pacific Productions London and Pabulum.
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Sunset + Vine kits out fleet of yachts
TV Corp subsidiary Sunset + Vine has fitted an entire fleet of yachts with cameras in order to provide full coverage of the Volvo Ocean Race for ITV. The sports indie will make eight one-hour programmes for ITV1 and 32 weekly half-hour programmes for ITV4 following the race, which starts ...
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Minotaur pre-sells new Rebus films
Minotaur International has pre-sold two new 90-minute Rebus movies - The Falls and Fleshmarket - to BBC America, TVO in Canada and ABC in Australia. Meanwhile, video and DVD rights for the two shows, made by SMG TV Productions, have been licensed to John Williams in the UK and Acorn ...
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September's weighing in down under
September Films has sold its BBC1 fat camp daytime series, Weighing In, to Australian broadcaster Channel Ten. The 10-part series, presented by Richard Bacon, goes behind the scenes at Europe's first weight-loss camp for children, based in Leeds.
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It's Me or the Dog format goes French
French network M6 has bought the format to the Ricochet series It's Me or the Dog, which screened on Channel 4 earlier in the year. C4 International has also sold the finished UK series to TV Norge (Norway), YLE (Finland), TV4 (Sweden), TVB (Hong Kong), SBS (the Netherlands) and TV2 ...