From a media release:

Shaftesbury’s Vacation with Derek and Baxter Acquired By Starz Entertainment

Shaftesbury Sales Company, the distribution arm of leading production company Shaftesbury, today announced that Starz Entertainment in the United States has acquired two titles from its award-winning kids and family slate for broadcast in 2011: Vacation with Derek, the movie follow up to the hit series Life with Derek; and tween series Baxter, which follows a group of friends at a performing arts high school.

Vacation with Derek (1 x 90 minutes) is the movie follow-up to Shaftesbury’s global hit series, Life with Derek (70 x 30 minutes), which is broadcast in more than 120 countries worldwide. Derek (Michael Seater) and Casey (Ashley Leggat) further their sibling rivalry in this continuation of the series when they are forced to spend summer vacation with their hard-edged grandmother at her lakeside lodge. Produced by Shaftesbury, the movie premiered on Family Channel in Canada in June 2010, and ranked as the number one show for the day across all networks with audiences 2+ during its premiere broadcast on June 25.*

Baxter (13 x 30 minutes) follows a group of teens on their journey through a school for the performing arts, where the students will do anything they can to stand out. Baxter McNab (Evan Williams, Degrassi: The Next Generation) and his friends at the Northern Star School of the Arts find the stress of a science test nothing compared to a dance recital, music performance or directing a short film, and soon learn that the key to success at their special high school is to stick together as they negotiate crushes, auditions and the occasional bout of stage fright. Baxter is produced by Shaftesbury and premiered on Family Channel in Canada in May 2010.

From a media release:

GLOBAL AND ABC EXTEND WINNING PARTNERSHIP WITH ORIGINAL SERIES, COMBAT HOSPITAL

• Powerful and Poignant Medical Drama Set to Begin Airing in Simulcast Summer 2011

Global Television announced today that its latest original drama series Combat Hospital has been picked up by ABC. The 13 episode series, the second Global series to be picked up by the US network, will air in simulcast with ABC this summer (airdates TBC).

Set in a hospital inspired by the Role 3 Multinational Medical Unit (MMU) at Kandahar Airfield in Afghanistan, Combat Hospital charts the frantic lives of the hospital’s resident doctors and nurses from Canada, America, the UK and other allied countries. This candid, entertaining and sometimes brutal series follows Canadian trauma surgeon Rebecca Kincaid as she experiences relentless life and death battles on the surgeon’s table that transcend politically-charged stereotypes and is confronted with making the tough decisions that come with the realities of frontline medicine

Combat Hospital is a joint production of Canada’s Sienna Films and the UK’s Artists Studio with Carrie Stein at 3 Arts Entertainment and Simon Vaughan at Lookout Point heading up international sales. Executive Producers are Jennifer Kawaja and Julia Sereny for Sienna Films (The Cry of the Owl—with BBC Films, MACT Productions, Diamonds—CBC/ABC, with Buffalo Gal Pictures, Alchemy Television and Philo Films, How She Move—Paramount Vantage/MTV Films/Mongrel Media), Gub Neal, Justin Thompson-Glover and Patrick Irwin for Artists Studio; Executive Producer/ Showrunner Dan Petrie Jr. will head up the writing room on the show originally created by Jinder Chalmers and Douglas Steinberg.

From Alyssa Rosenberg of the Atlantic:

• ‘Being Human’: Syfy Remakes a British Hit
  The remake of Being Human loses something ineffably British along the way, and there are areas where its attempts to import storylines fail in translation. But the remake has a stronger mythology, faster dialogue, and through three episodes, a stronger sense of its characters’ backstories and how to build multi-hour story arcs than its predecessor did at the same point. Read more.