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CABLEready Completes New U.S. Deals

NORWALK: CABLEready has inked new licensing agreements in the U.S. with Lifetime, Cooking Channel and Velocity. Lifetime secured the television rights to 100 episodes of the long-running Medical Detectivesseries, while Cooking Channel licensed the first two seasons of A Cook’s Tour, celebrity chef Anthony Bourdain’s first TV series. Velocity picked up the rights to Saw Dogs, which is about a team of chainsaw sculptors. Medstar’s Medical Detectives, which began airing on TLC, profiles intriguing crimes, accidents and outbreaks of disease from around the world. It features cutting-edge forensic techniques and [...]

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CABLEready Sends MEDICAL DETECTIVES to Lifetime

Connecticut-based distributor CABLEready has licensed three series from its catalog to assorted U.S. cable nets. Lifetime secured the television rights to 100 episodes of Medical Detectives, a Medstar series which aired on TLC. The half-hour show, a sibling series to Forensic Files, follows coroners, medical examiners, physicians, law enforcement officials, journalists and legal experts as they assemble evidence to understand a crime. Cooking Channel has licensed the first two seasons of A Cook’s Tour, which sees celebrity chef Anthony Bourdain travel around the world looking for the ultimate dining experience. [...]

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DISTRIBUTION, CARRIAGE, & CLEARANCE

International television program distribution and development company, CABLEready made new series licensing deals in the US with a handful of cable networks: Lifetime picked up 100 half-hour episodes of Medical Detectives produced by Medstar. A Cook’s Tour with 25 half-hour episodes was acquired by Cooking Channel. The series is produced by The New York Times Company. Velocity snagged the rights to Saw Dogs with 10 half-hour episodes from Buck Productions. http://www.cynopsis.com/index.php/editions/cynopsis/122111

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Trio of sales for CABLEready

TLC’s long-running non-fiction series Medical Detectives (100×30?) is heading to Lifetime through a deal with US distributor and developer CABLEready. The female-skewing US specialty channel has acquired the Medstar-produced series, which follows medical and other professionals as they unravel crimes, in one of three deals announced by CABLEready. CABLEready has also passed the first two seasons of A Cook’s Tour (35×30?) to Cooking Channel and Saw Dogs (10×30?), a series from Buck Productions about chainsaw sculptors, to Discovery net Velocity. “We continue to expand our reach as a provider of [...]

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“VideoAge” Daily E-Beat — Tuesday, December 20, 2011

CABLEREADY INKS U.S. CABLE NETWORK DEALS Gary Lico, president and CEO of international television program distribution and development company CABLEready, announced that the company secured a number of new licensing agreements in the U.S. with Lifetime, Cooking Channel and Velocity. Lifetime signed on for TV rights to 100 episodes of “Medical Detectives.” Cooking Channel commissioned the first two seasons of celebrity chef Anthony Bourdain’s series “A Cook’s Tour,” while Velocity picked up rights to “Saw Dogs.” To find out more, visit http://www.cableready.net

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VideoAge” Daily E-Beat — Friday, December 16, 2011

CABLEU.TV’S NATPE 2012 ACTIVITIES CableU.tv, a television research company that offers proprietary analysis of major U.S. cable networks and manages the only interactive database of U.S. cable networks, executives, programs and production companies, will be active at NATPE 2012. During the market, CableU.tv will conduct demonstrations about how to use its new website as an information source on Monday, January 23 at 11a.m. and 3p.m. and Tuesday, January 24 at 11a.m. and 3p.m. Further details can be found at http://www.cableu.tv/

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Gary Lico: “People Are Creating Their Own Grids”

In 2012 CABLEready will celebrate its 20th anniversary. The company first started to operate in the US TV industry as a distributor for cable channels at a time when most studios had almost no access to networks. The company chaired by Gary Lico started to represent independent production companies before becoming a production company itself. This enabled the company to also market its programming to the global market, later upping the ante by founding CableU, the company’s venture into the research and analysis. “Pure and simple: we sell TV programs [...]

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CABLEready picks up shows from Aito Media, D4D

by Adam Benzine U.S. producer-distributor CABLEready has inked agreements with Finland’s Aito Media and Spain’s D4D, expanding its line-up ahead of MIPCOM with the addition of several new series. The company has added a pair of series hosted by acclaimed chefs Eric Ripert and Todd English, in a bid to expand its offering in the food show category, adding to existing properties such as The Minimalist and A Cook’s Tour. Avec Eric (23 x 30-minutes) sees Ripert travel the world to meet with renowned chefs and friends to demonstrate how [...]

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Testosterone TV

From series about cars and technology to military programming, a new crop of shows is firmly focused on male audiences. By Bill Dunlap For about as long as television has been an advertising medium, advertisers seeking a heavily male audience, especially a young one, have turned to sports. More recently, edgy comedy entered the mix. But lately, some broadcasters not heavily invested in sports or comedy are trying to appeal to men with factual programming heavy on testosterone. Reality series like Dog the Bounty Hunter, Deadliest Catch, Top Gear and [...]

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New Programs from CABLEready

Steve Blanchard and his foreman show viewers the art of chainsaw carving when they create intricate woodcarvings in “Saw Dogs.” “Prison Diaries” explores the psyche of America’s female murderers. In “Avec Eric,” Eric Ripert transforms simple meals into adventures that are shared with friends. Weekly entertainment series “ReelzChannel Presents” offers celebrity interviews, trailers, news and specials. Viewers go along on adventures throughout Antarctica in “The White Continent.” In “Esther Extraordinaire,” Esther Tracy’s clients have fun with her bold decorating tastes. A cheerleading coach uses alternative training and bonding methods for [...]

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CABLEready sells in Finland, Spain

US distributor CableReady is expanding its selection of European programming following deals with Finland’s Aito Media and D4D in Spain, while adding two cooking shows made closer to home. CableReady has added Avec Eric (23×30′), a cooking/travel show produced by Anomaly for pubcaster PBS; and Food Trip With Todd English (11×30′) which follows the celebrity chef as he reinvents traditional dishes from around the world. It also airs on PBS, made by Todd English Productions. From Aito, CableReady has added Heartbeat (16×30′), a docudrama about how families are changed by [...]

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CABLEready PICKS UP NEW SERIES

International television program distribution and development company CABLEready acquired new original series from Aito Media in Finland and D4D in Spain to add to its programming lineup. In particular, the company has expanded the amount of content produced by European production companies, as well as the number of food series it has to offer. CABLEready picked up “Avec Eric,” “Food Trip with Todd English,” “Heartbeat,” “30 Days on the Silk Road,” “World Cities 3D” and “Across Russia in 30 Days.” For further details, visit www.cableready.net

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