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21 July, 2011. Culver City/London. Sony Pictures Television (SPT) has secured a raft of deals with international broadcasters for Pan Am, its glossy, period drama series set around the iconic, international airline.

SPT has licensed the ABC commissioned series to Canal+ in Spain, IMAGICA BS in Japan, Sony Entertainment Television across Latin America and TF1 in France. Other broadcasters set to air Pan Am include the Nine Network in Australia and CTV in Canada.

Announcing the deals, Keith LeGoy, president SPT International Distribution, said "Interest in our drama slate is at an all time high with our new network titles like Pan Am striking a real chord with buyers. The dawn of luxury jet travel was a very seductive, romantic and thrilling age, so Pan Am has captured the imagination of schedulers around the world, as it will for advertisers and millions of viewers over the coming year. Each week the narrative of Pan Am will take viewers to cities across the globe, inspiring a truly international appeal."

In the US, ABC will first premiere Pan Am as a highlight of its 2011 fall schedule in a primetime, Sunday night, 10pm slot. This high end, period drama is set in 1963 at the dawn of the Jet Age. It will follow the lives of its characters, Pan Am crew, as they take to the skies in a new era of luxury air travel and cross the globe against a backdrop of romance, shifting social values and international espionage.

Lead cast include Christina Ricci, Margot Robbie, Michael Mosley, Kelli Garner and Karine Vanasse. Pan Am is executive produced by Jack Orman, Thomas Schlamme and Nancy Ganis. It will be produced by Jack Orman Productions, Out of the Blue Entertainment and Show Money Productions, in association with SPT, which is distributing the series globally.

Pan Am is one of four new US dramas being produced and distributed by SPT, alongside Charlie's Angels (for ABC), Unforgettable (for CBS) and Necessary Roughness (USA Network). These join SPT's successful stable of global drama franchises such as Damages, Breaking Bad, Justified, Franklin & Bash, Rescue Me and HawthoRNe.

ABOUT SONY PICTURES TELEVISION
Sony Pictures Television is one of the television industry's leading content providers. It produces and distributes programming in every genre, including series, telefilms, theatrical releases and family entertainment around the world and for every platform: broadcast and cable television, first-run and off-network syndication and digital distribution. In addition to one of the industry's largest libraries of feature films and television shows, SPT boasts a current program slate that includes the top-rated daytime dramas and game shows, landmark off-network series, original animated series and critically acclaimed primetime dramas, comedies and telefilms.

Internationally, SPT is a leader in local language productions around the world, some of which are co-produced with local partners, and sells SPE-owned formats in approximately 70 countries. To better serve its clients and partners worldwide, SPT maintains offices throughout the world, including Argentina, Australia, Brazil, Canada, France, Germany, Hong Kong, Hungary, India, Italy, Japan, Korea, Mexico, the Netherlands, the People's Republic of China, Russia, Singapore, Spain, Venezuela and the United Kingdom. SPT's worldwide television networks portfolio is a key strategy in SPE's long-range commitment to the global marketplace, with 120 channel feeds, which are available in more than 142 countries reaching more than 500 million households worldwide. SPT also creates original content for and manages SPE's premium video website, Crackle.

Additionally, SPT owns Dutch entertainment company 2waytraffic, production company Embassy Row and Sony Movie Channel, and is a part owner of cable channel GSN, new 3D channel 3net, FEARnet, the premier horror/thriller website and VOD service, and national media sales company ITN Networks, Inc. SPT advertiser sales is one of the premiere national advertising sales companies, handling the commercial inventory in SPT's syndicated series as well as in all of SPE's digital businesses in the United States. SPT (www.sonypicturestelevision.com) is a Sony Pictures Entertainment company.

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