World Screen

TORONTO: Shaftesbury Sales Company has licensed its new family TV movie Vacation with Derek—based on the hit series Life with Derek—to Nick Australia. The special, which Shaftesbury is highlighting at MIPTV, reunites Ashley Leggat and Michael Seater and is directed by …

LOS ANGELES: MarVista Entertainment has acquired the international distribution rights for the feature documentary Fan-Demanium, featuring ten soccer fans from ten different countries, and will launch the show in Cannes next week. Fan-Demanium features soccer fans from Italy, France, Germany, …

LONDON: MTV Networks International has rolled out localized Nickelodeon services on UPC Broadband in the Czech Republic and Romania. This is the first localized Nick service in the Czech Republic. The Romanian-language version of the channel first rolled out in February. …

LONDON: Classic Media has taken on the worldwide TV, home-entertainment and digital media distribution rights, outside of the U.K., to the latest season of the BBC tween series Tracy Beaker Returns as well as the new BBC stop-motion comedy sketch show …

NEW YORK: USA Network has announced a slate of development projects from, among others, The Office‘s Steve Carell and ER‘s Anthony Edwards, as it gears up to celebrate the fifth anniversary of its "Characters Welcome" brand this summer. Jeff Wachtel, …

TORONTO: Breakthrough Entertainment has sold more than 100 hours of nonfiction programming to European broadcasters ahead of MIPTV. TV Galicia of Spain picked up Science of the Senses and The Future Revealed. YLE in Finland also went for Science of …

MIAMI: Bola Cinta, a telenovela co-produced by Latin Media Corporation and its business partner in Malaysia, has secured pickups ahead of MIPTV from buyers in Southeast Asia, the Middle East and select African territories. The 30×1-hour football love story is slated …

LONDON: ITV Studios Global Entertainment has increased its documentary catalogue by more than 80 percent year-on-year, and will be showcasing more than 100 hours of all-new factual programming at MIPTV. The new programming comes from ITV Studios, as well as independent …

LONDON: The live-action kids’ series Yo Gabba Gabba! has been sold by RDF Rights to two new broadcasters, EBS in Korea and TV5 in the Philippines. Both broadcasters picked up all three seasons of the show, which is produced by …

TORONTO: CTV and Discovery Communications have extended their Discovery Canada joint venture, which includes the English-language broadcast rights in Canada for programming from Discovery Channel, Discovery Science, Discovery Health, Discovery HD Theatre and Investigation Discovery. Also with the new pact, Discovery …