• SOAPnet has picked up season one of MVP, and plans to put the cancelled hockey drama on June 19. The Disney-owned cable channel broadcasts current and past soap operas to about 41 million American homes. The deal was brokered by execs at Toronto’s Screen Door and Zac Reeder of L.A.-based Circus Road Films.

• Shaftesbury Films has reached a deal with ShineReveille International to distribute its series The Listener overseas. ShineReveille will distribute the CTV/NBC series about a mind-reading paramedic in all markets outside North America, while Fox International will have cable and satellite rights in Europe, Latin America, Asia and the Middle East.

Shaftesbury has also secured a pair of deals for Life with Derek. KOCH Vision will distribute DVDs of the first three seasons, totaling 52 half-hour episodes, while IToys has signed on to produce a series of electronic handheld and tabletop games tied in with the live-action kids show.

• Flush with new investors led by former Standard Radio boss Gary Slaight, The Fight Network is buying the U.K.’s The Wrestling Channel, to be renamed The Fight Network U.K.

• Decode Enterprises has sold both seasons of the preschool CGI Bo on the GO! to the Cartoon Network in India, Taiwan and the Philippines, and to Digiturk, Al-Jazeera Children’s Channel, M-Net in South Africa, Finland’s YLE and KidsTalkTalk in Korea.

• High Fidelity HDTV has picked up a package of wildlife, history and art documentaries from Austria’s ORF, including the award-winning doc Ants.