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    Q&A: Tim Mutimer

    2009-02-25T11:55:06Z

    BBC Worldwide's senior vice president for EMEA

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    Q&A: Joyce Yeung

    2009-02-25T11:43:18Z

    BBC Worldwide's senior vice president for Asia

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    Q&A: Steve Macallister

    2009-02-25T11:38:57Z

    BBC Worldwide's managing director for sales and distribution

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    Living finds The Locator

    2009-02-25T08:00:00Z

    Living has acquired a US documentary series from distributor Off the Fence (OTF) about people in search of lost friends and family.

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    Digital deal for Target

    2009-02-25T07:57:00Z

    Myvideorights.com has signed a two year digital distribution deal with Target Entertainment Group to represent a range of entertainment titles from its catalogue.

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    Merlin to cast spell in China

    2009-02-24T16:53:19Z

    BBC1 drama series Merlin is set to air in China after being sold to the country's largest broadcaster.

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    US network buys Beautiful People

    2009-02-24T13:22:37Z

    BBC Showcase: BBC Worldwide has sold series one and two of its new BBC2 comedy Beautiful People to US gay and lesbian network Logo.

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    Corrie goes digital in the US

    2009-02-24T12:38:54Z

    Long-running ITV1 soap Coronation Street is making its US debut today following a deal ITV Global Entertainment struck with Amazon Video On Demand.

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    Kiwis join the Survivors

    2009-02-24T08:59:00Z

    BBC Showcase: BBC Worldwide has sold its new post-apocalyptic drama Survivors to Prime TV in New Zealand.

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    Auf Wiedersehen Pet sold to Germany

    2009-02-24T08:58:00Z

    BBC Showcase: Classic ITV comedy Auf Wiedersehen Pet is to be screened in Germany for the first time after BBC Worldwide sold a significant package of programming to VoD service on T-Online.

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    BBCW plans China Showcase

    2009-02-23T23:01:49Z

    BBC Showcase: Steve Macallister, BBC Worldwide's managing director of sales and distribution, has told Broadcastnow he is planning to launch a Showcase-style event in China.

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    Buzz Aldrin to land in Brighton

    2009-02-23T11:04:08Z

    Buzz Aldrin, the second man to walk on the Moon, is travelling to Brighton for BBC Woldwide's annual Showcase promoting new drama Moonshot, which has already sold to five countries.

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    Cake surfs into Cartoon Network deal

    2009-02-20T15:18:49Z

    Kids producer and distributor Cake Entertainment has sold animated surf sitcom Stoked to Cartoon Network (CN) in the US.

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    ITV4 signs Raw TV for American jailbreak series

    2009-02-18T18:07:14Z

    ITV4 has joined forces with Discovery Canada and National Geographic US to order an international co-production about the greatest US jail breaks of all time.

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    DRG agrees first-look deal with Talent TV

    2009-02-18T15:47:41Z

    Talent Television, the indie behind the BBC1 Test the Nation format, has signed a first-look deal with Digital Rights Group (DRG).

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    Distributors unite to fight for terms of trade

    2009-02-18T15:43:39Z

    Some of the UK's biggest distributors have responded to the government's Digital Britain report by banding together to protect the rights won by the indie sector in the 2003 Communications Act.

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    US may get 50 years of Corrie on-demand

    2009-02-18T11:11:36Z

    ITV Studios managing director Lee Bartlett has revealed his ambition to launch Coronation Street in the US, as it endeavours to build the company's international footprint.

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    Sky 1 exec poached by Fox

    2009-02-18T10:53:23Z

    The acquisitions chief who brought Lost, Prison Break and Fringe to Sky 1 has been hired by Twentieth Century Fox Television Distribution.

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    NBC Universal has the Power

    2009-02-17T16:48:50Z

    Distributor and producer Power has signed a pan-regional deal to make almost 50 hours of its slate of programming available to NBC Universal Asia.

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    ITV Studios inks deal with 19 Entertainment

    2009-02-17T16:20:08Z

    ITV Studios has signed a production deal with 19 Entertainment, the indie owned by American Idol creator Simon Fuller.