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NewsBusy Mipcom for Fremantle Media
RTL-owned Fremantle Media unveiled a raft of international sales and commissions at last week's Mipcom, along with an exclusive international output deal with Daisy Goodwin's new independent production company, Silver River.
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Worldwide secures Extras deals
Ricky Gervais's struggling actor Andy Millman was a big hit with international buyers in Cannes, with BBC Worldwide racking up sales in Australia, New Zealand, Canada and across Europe for new comedy Extras.
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Twofour secures international commissions
Independent producer Twofour TV has made further inroads into the international market, with a new commission from Japan's NHK and a US version of its Sky One documentary series Cruiseline in the works.
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Most Haunted Live to air in the US
Living TV's Most Haunted Live Halloween will be simulcast in the US on Discovery-owned Travel Channel at the end of this month, following a deal negotiated by Minotaur International at Mipcom.
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Strong sales for The Queen's Sister
Channel 4 International secured a number of significant deals across its slate of programming at Mipcom, with Touchpaper drama The Queen's Sister proving a favourite with buyers.
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Granada International secure deal with TV Polaska
Granada International has sold the rights to 11 Hollywood TV movies and a selection of classic films to Poland's state broadcaster, TV Polaska.
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NewsDic eyes acquisitions after Aim listing
US animation producer and distributor Dic Entertainment is looking to expand its European presence following a successful listing on London's Aim market earlier this month.
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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'.