World Screen

CANNES: An agreement has been signed between Miditech and Global Agency to bolster the production of formats for the Indian market. Miditech will produce shows for Indian broadcasters using the formats developed by Global Agency and, in turn, Global Agency …

CANNES: Televisa Internacional has signed a deal with CCTV’s China International Television Corporation (CITVC) to jointly produce a telenovela in China. The series will air on CCTV and will be distributed by Televisa to its main markets—particularly Mexico and the …

CANNES: BBC Worldwide has licensed a slate of natural-history programming to Asian broadcasters, including selling Life into Korea, Japan and Vietnam. The Korean broadcaster KBS has taken on Life, South Pacific and the second season of All About Animals, among …

NEW YORK: A slate of 14 series, specials and feature films have been acquired for the 2010 schedule of Planet Green, while its sister network Discovery Health picked up three titles at MIPTV. Slated to premiere in the second quarter …

NEW YORK: AETN International is continuing to drive its Asian business, clinching new deals with BS-TBS and Nippon TV in Japan and appointing a new sales executive for the region. In the first quarter alone, AETN International sold more than 450 hours to 25-plus …

CANNES: ZDF Enterprises has clinched deals with Finland’s YLE and France’s TF1, among others, for its new slate of programming, which includes crime dramas, historical docs and romance TV movies. YLE acquired 47 hours of cop shows, while Italy’s RTI took …

CANNES: Nickelodeon is working with Studio 100 on a new version of the live-action series House of Anubis for a fall 2010 premiere on its channels in the U.S., U.K. and Australia. The new global version of the series will …

CANNES: ABC3 in Australia and activeTV are developing 39 new half-hour episodes of Prank Patrol, based on Apartment 11 Productions’ Canadian series of the same name distributed by MarVista Entertainment. The new episodes are due to begin production in later this …

LAS VEGAS: A consortium of 12 U.S. station groups—including Belo, E.W. Scripps, Fox, Hearst, ION and NBC—are setting up a joint venture to develop a national mobile content service using broadcast spectrum. The service will allow member companies to provide content to …

CANNES: Media Entertainment Group (MEG) has acquired 75 episodes of hidden-camera content produced in Spain between 2005 and 2009 from TV Galicia and CTV gags.  The episodes include gags that are 2.5 minutes in length, featuring crazy antics with urban …