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Cynopsis: International
08/06/08

Good morning. It's Wednesday, August 6, 2008, and this is your first early morning International & Multicultural briefing.

INTERNATIONAL MARKET:

Belarus, Georgia, Kazakhstan, Latvia, Lithuania, Moldova, Russia and Ukraine will be the newest recipients of Viasat Broadcasting's TV1000 Action movie channel.  As of September 1, Viasat's digital satellite platform will air the Hollywood/European film channel in the Baltic States and Ukraine while third-party cable operators will offer the network in the other territories.  The movies will be dubbed in Russian with Estonian, Latvian and Lithuanian subtitles.

ALL3MEDIA International has got more going on down under.  Among its many new licensing deals, ABC Australia acquired Lilies (8x60-minutes, World Productions for BBC1), The Man Who Lost His Head (Greenlit Rights and South Pacific Pictures for ITV1 and New Zealand's TVNZ), Midsomer Murders' season 11 (Bentley for ITV), Around the World in 80 Gardens (10x59-minutes, BBC for BBC2) and The Secrets of the Forbidden City (1x87-minutes, Lion Television for BBC and U.S.' The History Channel).  BBC HD and BBC Knowledge, new channels in the area, also picked up second runs on Lilies, Around the World in 80 Gardens and China history films The Great Wall, The Secrets of the Forbidden City and The First Emperor: The Man Who Made China.  UKTV Australia re-licensed Midsomer Murders, acquiring season 7 and re-licensing 5 preceding series.  Showtime Australia voted for He Kills Coppers (3x48-minutes, Ecosse Films for ITV1) and Libeskind (1x90-minutes, Lion Television For BBC) while Foxtel took a documentary package for Australia and New Zealand.

A new niche entertainment channel will arrive in the Ukraine this fall.  United Media Holding's Ukrainian Media Holding will distribute the channel on satellite, cable and the internet with content to be produced in-house with a little help from an unnamed Russian production house, per THR.

Tiger Aspect picked up a commission from the U.K.'s Channel 4 to produce a 4-part series of shorts.  Here's the difference … the show will be filmed by international students working with the company taking a outsider's look on life in the U.K. covering several issues.  The African and Indian students come from the as part of the Thomson Foundation Documentary Course, according to Broadcast.

Kathy Griffin comes back to Canada on August 15 at 10p, exclusively on The Comedy Network, with the debut of Season 4 of Kathy Griffin: My Life on the D-List.

CW's (MRC) Sunday night lineup will get more real following an importing agreement to bring in Canada's 4Real 30-minute, celeb show with two episodes airing back-to-back at 6p starting September 21.  In the 8-episode show, celebs travel internationally to meet leaders making and inspiring changes.  The Direct Current Media production originally aired on CTV and MTV Canada, according to Variety.

HISPANIC MARKET:

El Camino Facil will take a broadband real-life look at some of the darker issues U.S. Hispanic women are facing in life and society.  The Telemundo Communications Group series, available at www.yahootelemundo.com/mujerdehoy is also in support of the network's national, pro-social Mujer de Hoy … Hazte Valer! Campaign, which launched in May.  In addition to the show, the website will have more info and resources, viewers' comments and case studies.

ASIAN/INDIAN MARKET:

KyLinTV added on several mainstream English channels to its Chinese program lineup as an English Channel Select Package available to U.S. subscribers through a partnership between KyLinTV and Sky Angel. Sky Angel IPTV is a TV broadcast service with family programming. The newly added channels include Fox Business Network, Fox News Channel, Discovery Channel, Discovery Kids, Animal Planet, Blue Highways TV, CBS College Sports, Hallmark Channel, Hallmark Movie Channel, Military Channel, NASA TV, NFL Network, Pentagon Channel, Planet Green, QVC, The Sportsman Channel, Tennis Channel, Visual Arts Network and The Weather Channel.

GAY/LESBIAN MARKET:

A whole lot of picture business will be going on as here! Networks' sister company, Regent Studios LLC, signs a 2-year, multi-picture agreement with David DeCoteau's Rapid Heart Pictures. It covers 10 movies and 2 TV series, including adaptations of tales by Edgar Allan Poe, H.G. Wells and Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. here! Networks will license the content for TV broadcast and Regent Releasing will distribute a number of the films theatrically this fall.

Logo is all set to debut Affinity, a women's prison romance based on Sarah Waters' period thriller, on August 17 at 10p with the DVD hitting stores and online two days later (pre-orders at
www. LOGOonline.com ).

EXECUTIVE MOVES:

Toronto's Tricon Films & Television restructured its sales unit with Lia Dolente receiving a promotion to Manager/International Sales and Publicity in addition to adding Portugal, Spain, Italy, and Greece to her existing territories (Latin America, Africa and ancillary rights).  Paul Lancaric continues on as Manager/International Sales and Acquisitions while bringing on new territories with Australia, New Zealand, Central and Eastern Europe and the Asian market (including India).  Solange Attwood comes on board as Sales Executive/France, Benelux, the Middle East and French-speaking CanadaCarrie Mudd will continue to manage distribution as VP/International Sales and Development, retaining Canada, Scandinavia, the U.S. and the U.K. market responsibilities.  She will turn her efforts to programming development and larger project sourcing financing.


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