World Screen

LONDON, August 23: Turner Broadcasting Systems UK has hired Anthony van Someren as VP of creative and production of Cartoon Network, Boomerang, Toonami and Cartoon Network Too. Van Someren joins Turner from Flextech Television, and will take up his role …

NORWALK, August 23: CABLEready has notched up deals in Europe and Asia on five series from Burrud Productions, including its first deal with RTL in Belgium, which picked up Mostly True Stories. In Poland, Planete took the six-part Weird Worlds …

SAN FRANCISCO, August 23: VIZ Media has announced new Latin American deals on its successful animated properties Naruto and Zatch Bell!. America TV in Peru acquired 52 episodes each of both series, as did Televideo Services for broadcast in Guatemala, …

LOS ANGELES, August 23: PorchLight Entertainment’s Jay Jay the Jet Plane has been renewed by PBS KIDS through June 2009. The show has been airing on PBS KIDS since June 2001. It is currently available on 220 PBS member stations …

LOS ANGELES, August 23: Debmar-Mercury has entered into deals with TBS and FOX for the original first-run syndicated sitcom Tyler Perry's House of Payne. Beginning June 2007, TBS will have access to 100 fully produced episodes provided upfront. Broadcast syndication …

LONDON, August 23: A deal between Turner Broadcasting System Europe and France Telecom will bring Cartoon Network content to Orange subscribers in seven European markets. Orange will offer up a daily updated, localized selection of Cartoon Network shows to mobile …

LOS ANGELES, August 23: USA Network has ordered a fourth season of 13 episodes of its critically acclaimed original drama The 4400 for launch next summer. Production is slated to begin in Vancouver in early 2007. The show, from CBS …

HONG KONG, August 23: EchoStar chairman Charlie Ergen, Liberty Global CEO Mike Fries and Hunan Satellite chief Wei Wen Bin, are among the executives slated to take part in the Cable & Satellite Broadcasting Association of Asia’s annual CASBAA Convention, …

WINNIPEG, August 23: Granada Media Group will join CanWest Global Communications Corp. in offloading its stake in Ireland’s TV3 network to funds managed by Doughty Hanson & Co, with the transaction expected to close at the end of this month. …

BURBANK, August 23: A range of ABC News videos will be offered on the iTunes Music Store in the categories of “ABC News Specials," "The Day It Happened" and "Celebrity Flashback." Videos will be priced at $1.99 each. "We are …