World Screen

NEW YORK: Advertising spending on cable TV was up 9.1 percent in the U.S. for the first three quarters of 2009, according to Nielsen.  Spanish-language cable also saw positive gains, up 36.7 percent. Overall, spending on advertising fell 11.5 percent. Compared to the same …

TORONTO: CCI Entertainment has struck a deal with Cotiplas that sees a full range of Harry and His Bucket Full of Dinosaurs toys hitting shelves in Brazil as early as April 2010. The line will include plastics, plush, talking dinosaurs, …

NEW YORK: BBC America has picked up the rights to season three of Gavin & Stacey for launch in 2010, as well the hit British comedy’s Christmas special, which will broadcast on Christmas Eve. Acquired from BBC Worldwide, the one-hour Gavin …

  NEW YORK: Emiliano Calemzuk, the president of Fox Television Studios (FtvS), talks about the company’s successful co-production model, among other topics, in this video interview.    From the acclaimed U.S. cable series Burn Notice and Saving Grace to co-productions such as …

LONDON: CAKE Entertainment has entered into a co-production deal for a short-form 3-D interactive adventure series, If I Was…. The series has been developed from two short films by Junior Jesman, a U.K.-based young animator discovered on Dailymotion. The idea came from street recordings …

BELFAST: Ten Alps’ Below the Radar has signed a two-year agreement with Academy Award-winning director Alex Gibney to send two of its producers to spend three months working with Gibney’s New York-based production company Jigsaw. The project has been funded by a …

LONDON: The Walt Disney Company has acquired the animated series Stoked, produced by Fresh TV and distributed by CAKE, for its channels across Europe, the Middle East and Africa.  The 26×22-minute surf comedy is scheduled to air in 2010 on Disney …

SANTA MONICA: VH1 and High Noon Entertainment have teamed up for a new docu-soap, Secrets of Aspen, which follows six single women who live in the resort town of Aspen, Colorado. Premiering January 3 at 10 p.m., the 8×30-minute series …

BURBANK: Conveyor Belt of Love, a dating special that watches as five women select from 30 men who pass by them on a moving conveyor belt, will debut on ABC on January 4, following the season premiere of The Bachelor: …

LONDON: Natalka Znak, the controller of factual entertainment at ITV Studios in the U.K., is stepping down in April to relocate to Los Angeles. Znak is leaving the British broadcasting group to become executive VP of RDF Media USA. Lee …