* Degrassi: The Next Generation has been sold for U.S. syndication, and will reach 60% of households south of the border when it launches in the fall, according to distributors Thunderbird Films in Vancouver and Program Partners in Venice, CA. The teen drama has also gone to outlets including Belo, Clear Channel, Granite, Gray, Hubbard, the Pegasus groups and The CW Plus stations.

* L.A.-based Myriad Pictures has secured the worldwide rights minus Canada and the U.S. to Trailer Park Boys The Movie.

* Videotron and Just For Laughs have inked a three-year deal making the Quebecor-owned cable giant the main distributor for content from the Montreal comedy shop. The deal includes web, mobile and other new media platforms.

* The Score has signed a four-year multi-platform deal for NCAA’s March Madness, putting the basketball championships on mobile, cable and online starting in 2007.

* Picture Box Distribution has sold its fat-burner series X-Weighted (13 x 60) to Sky in the U.K. and TVNZ in New Zealand.

* Horizon Entertainment (Ju-on: The Grudge, Hank Williams First Nation) has bought the U.S. and foreign rights to the Vancouver-made thriller The Entrance, directed and written by Damon Vignale.

* Ottawa’s Let It Out Entertainment has sold its prank show Apauled (3 x 30) to the G4 cable channel in the U.S.