• CCI Entertainment has sold its spooky reality Ghost Trackers to HBO Family. The U.S. channel plans to roll out the series in January, but gave audiences a sneak peek this month among its Halloween-themed programming.

• The National Film Board moved a number of animation and enviro-docs at MIPCOM, selling titles including Madame Tutli-Putli and Whale Mission: The Last Giants to casters in France, Switzerland and Spain. The board closed a deal with Ushuaia TV, a new eco-minded cable and satellite channel in France, for the docs Weather Report: The Fight for True Farming and Toxic Trespass – copros with Sienna Films and If You Love Our Children, respectively – and Whale Mission, by Glacialis Productions. France’s La chaîne histoire, meanwhile, picked up the CBC copro Dead in the Water and Buried at Sea, made with Arcadia Entertainment, at the annual market this month in Cannes.

• Peace Arch Entertainment has signed a deal with Insight Film Studios to distribute four pictures in theaters and on DVD in 2008. The deal includes the Matthew Perry comedy Numb, as well as When a Man Falls in the Forest, starring Sharon Stone and Timothy Hutton, the Wesley Snipes action pic Operation Espionage, and Higher Education with Steven Seagal.

• Universal Studios Home Entertainment Canada has picked up DVD rights to five Nelvana properties. The seven-year deal starts this fall and covers more than 150 episodes of Nelvana’s Jane and the Dragon, Grossology, Di-Gata Defenders and Ruby Gloom, plus a Franklin feature film.

• Teletoon has ordered a 13-episode run of the teen- and adult-aimed cartoon The Dating Guy from marblemedia and Blueprint Entertainment, set to air on the cable channel’s Detour block late next year. The half-hour program has been in development since last year at marblemedia, which is looking for an animation partner.