• Microsoft has closed deals with Maple Pictures, Warner Bros. and U.S.-based MPI Home Video to provide titles for its video-on-demand system Xbox Live, which made its north-of-the-border debut earlier this month. The multiyear deal with Maple allows Microsoft to pick and choose among titles for which the Toronto distributor holds the VOD rights, including the recent Jet Li punch-up War, the romantic-comedy Good Luck Chuck and the docu-drama Air Guitar Nation.

• Peace Arch Entertainment and First Look Studios have signed a deal that will see the Toronto outfit distribute five movies in theaters across Canada and another 27 to broadcasters. The agreement follows an output deal signed earlier this year between PAE and the L.A. studio, and covers titles seen recently on the festival circuit and on DVD in the U.S. – including the drama An American Crime, the comedy Smiley Face and horror remake Day of the Dead.

• French distributor Neutra Production has bought the TV and DVD rights to The Border, picking up the CBC mid-season series from its sales wing earlier this month. The series, from Toronto’s White Pine Pictures, is about an elite immigration and customs security squad.

• Super Channel has found a home on Rogers Cable, and, following a deal with the cable giant, now reaches one million to two million homes in Ontario and New Brunswick. Rogers is the first major cable company to pick up the pay-TV service, which made its debut in October on Bell ExpressVu. Rogers also reaches homes in Newfoundland, though it is not yet sending Super Channel to its customers on The Rock.

• The rights to Giller Prize-winning Late Nights on Air have been scooped up by Toronto’s Shaftesbury Films, which plans to turn Elizabeth Hay’s novel about a radio station in the Far North into a series.

• Equinoxe Films has sealed a two-year deal with New York-based Kimmel International allowing the Montreal shop to distribute all KI titles, and productions of Sidney Kimmel Entertainment, in all media in English and French Canada. The titles include the romantic comedy Management, starring Jennifer Aniston and Steve Zahn; All God’s Children Can Dance, starring Joan Chen; and a comedy set at a renaissance fair, Ye Olde Times, starring Carey Elwes, David Arquette and Jack Black.

• Toronto’s 9 Story Entertainment has sold its tween-aimed cartoon Futz! to broadcasters including Australia’s ABC, Spain’s Luc Internacional, Asia’s HBO, Finland’s YLE, and Cartoon Network in Latin America

• Decode Enterprises has signed deals in India for The Latest Buzz and Naturally, Sadie, and in Thailand for Bo on the GO!. Disney Channel India has attained seasons one and two of Buzz and seasons one through three of Sadie. The channel has also acquired the rights to the CG toon Urban Vermin.

Meanwhile, Thailand’s True Visions has purchased seasons one and two of Bo on the GO!, produced by DHX subsidiary Halifax Film, and all three of the preschool series Franny’s Feet.

The first 13 episodes of Super Why!, a coproduction by Out of the Blue Enterprises and Decode Entertainment, has been sold to ATV Hong Kong. Decode has also sold Turner Broadcasting’s live-action My Spy Family to ATV Hong Kong.

• Discovery Channel Canada has signed a three-year first-look deal with Media International Corporation of Tokyo, taking exclusive access to the Japanese distributor’s catalogue of high-definition, English-language programming.