• Image Entertainment re-upped its output deal with Entertainment One and its subsidiaries, expanding their current deal to more than 3,000 titles running until 2012. Entertainment One will hold the theatrical, home, TV and digital rights for Image titles and its subsidiaries, including horror flick Stuck and My Name Is Bruce with Bruce Campbell.

• Super Channel has closed a deal with Portman Film and Television for a raft of imported titles, including ITV’s Kingdom and the BBC political drama Party Animals. Also included in the deal are the hit Australian drama Sea Patrol, the New Zealand series Doves of War and Orange Roughies, and several movies.

• Portfolio Entertainment has closed deals in Russia and the U.S. for lifestyle and children’s programming including Cowboy Country, Know Limits and Groundling Marsh. The Toronto company has passed four titles to Russia’s Red Media Group, which took Cowboy Country and Know Limits along with the lifestyles Chef at Home (53 x 30) and French Food at Home (26 x 30).

In the U.S., digicaster Lifeskool has bought the on-demand rights for Spellz, a 52 x 15 about magic tricks from GAPC Entertainment, and Ruffus the Dog (26 x 15), a preschool puppet show from Radical Sheep Productions. Meanwhile, regional cable outfit Atlanta Interfaith Broadcasters has picked up Ruffus along with Radical Sheep’s Panda Bear Daycare (26 x 15) and YTV popular favorite Groundling Marsh (65 x 30).

• Sullivan Entertainment has picked up the rights for two new features, taking both What Could Have Been and The Ark from Centurion Pictures. Both titles are in development, according to the Centurion website, with scriptwriter Jeff Richards working from stories by Shea Wageman, CEO and president of the small B.C. production house.