• Warner Home Video has acquired the U.S., U.K. and Mexican distribution rights to the feature documentary Global Metal from the makers of Metal: A Headbanger’s Journey. The documentary will also open the 14th annual North by Northeast Music and Film Festival in Toronto on June 12.

• Incendo Media has renewed its long-term distribution deal with GRB Entertainment. Fox/Incendo Television, a co-venture of the Montreal shop and 20th Century Fox, holds the rights to GRB programming in Canada, including shows like WE’s Designer to the Stars, VH1’s The Agency, NBC’s Next Action Hero and the new Super Channel documentary Flesh and Blood.

• Breakthrough Entertainment has sold over 500 hours of programming to international broadcasters on the heels of MIPTV. Crime Stories (48 x 60) has gone to Telecast in Germany, TV4 in Sweden, as well as broadcasters in Turkey and Poland. Season one of Plastic Makes Perfect (26 x 30) was picked up in Israel and by Polsat in Poland, while the medical drama Little Miracles (65 x 30) has been sold to broadcasters in Sweden, the Middle East and Korea.

Deals were also reached for the lifestyle series Manic Organic, Design Match and What’s for Dinner?, for historical docs The Secret Liberators and Uganda Rising, and for its entertainment programs Disasters of the Century, Outdoor Journal, Very Odd Jobs, War of the Wheels and Europa: Mystery of the Ice Moon.

• CCI Entertainment has closed a series of international deals for its animated kids series Erky Perky. The Toronto company has sold the 52 x 11 to Radio-Canada domestically, and to Sopresa in the U.S., TV2 Denmark and HBO Asia.

• Montreal-based format distributor Distraction finalized German deals for The Next Great Leader, Trade Up and DNA. The Next Great Leader was picked up by ZDF for a primetime slot, while the game show Trade Up was nabbed by the IMG Group. German production house Tresor TV also picked up the game show DNA.

• Nelvana Enterprises squared away deals for some new series at MIPTV. The Future Is Wild was picked up by RTL2 in Germany, Luk International in Spain/Portugal, RTBF in Belgium, YLE2 in Scandinavia and Animal Planet in Latin America. Other deals saw Willa’s Wild Life go to Discovery Kids in Latin America, Pearlie to Mediaset and Z-Squad to De Agostini, both in Italy.