• TSN has signed an eight-year extension for regional broadcasts of the Toronto Maple Leafs, to be seen in all but the easternmost corner of Ontario.

• HBO Latin America has bought two seasons (39 x 30) of Carl Squared, and will air the animated comedy by Portfolio Entertainment starting next month, in Spanish and Portugese, following a deal by agent Katherine O’Brien of KO Film Distribution.

• Atopia Distribution has picked up four Quebec-made features, adding Nemesis by Marc-André Forcier, Elle veut le chaos by Denis Côté, The Other Side of the Country by Catherine Hébert and Who is K.K. Downey? by Pat Kiely and Darren Curtis to its slate. Nemesis shoots this fall.

• Amberwood Entertainment has signed a deal with Mattel for a line of toys and other products based on RollBots, its CGI action-adventure coming to YTV. The 26 x 30 is due in fall 2009.

• CTVglobemedia has inked a deal with Warner Bros. for multi-platform rights to the popular TMZ.com brand and a new daily entertainment series. The deal includes the Canadian broadcast rights for the TMZ series, to be seen on CTV and Star!, along with exclusive use of any TMZ.com content – stories, sources, photos and video – which the net plans to make available on CTV.ca through a round-the-clock newsfeed.

• Superchannel has signed a deal with Maple Pictures, taking the exclusive pay-TV rights to its theatrical releases and series such as Saw III, Death of a President and Happily N’Ever After.

In separate deals, the soon-to-launch pay channel also closed a long-term agreement with MGM, covering titles such as the Dead Like Me movie, Spaceballs: The Animated Series and Barbershop: The Series, and the daytime drama Passions, seen previously on NBC.

• Robert Lantos’ new Maximum Films International has secured a two-year deal with Amsterdam- and Hong Kong-based Fortissimo Films. Maximum will distribute Fortissimo films in Canada, while Fortissimo will represent the sale of its films in Asia.

• Just for Laughs has sold the syndication rights to its half-hour hidden-camera hit Just for Laughs Gags to RTL. Germany’s largest broadcaster picked up the option on 50 episodes of the no-language show, to start airing in September.