World Screen

LONDON: 4Kids Entertainment has named France Télévisions Distribution as licensing agent for the preschool brand WordWorld in France. The series centers on a group of WordFriends—Dog, Duck, Ant, Bear, Frog, Sheep and Pig—who live in WordWorld and together they learn …

HILVERSUM: Telescreen has acquired the exclusive worldwide distribution rights for the new animated series Conni from youngfilms, excluding German-speaking Europe, Spain, Portugal and Latin America.  Telescreen now holds rights to the 26×12-minute production across broadcasting, home entertainment, VOD, Internet, mobile, audio …

LOS ANGELES: Carolina Lightcap has been named president of Disney Channels Worldwide, replacing Rich Ross, who left in October to head up the company’s movie studio. Lightcap joined The Walt Disney Company in 2000 and most recently served in the dual …

TORONTO: Starz Animation Toronto will animate the Christmas story Yes, Virginia for a half-hour holiday special, presented by Macy’s, to air on CBS on December 11.  The CG animation studio is producing the animation for the TV feature in conjunction …

LONDON: Virgin1 has commissioned a second season of the observational docuseries Sun, Sea and A&E from October Films. The vacation destination of Spanish isle Mallorca is put in the spotlight once again. With unprecedented access to the Spanish hospitals, doctors …

LOS ANGELES/MUNICH: CBS Films and Tele München Group (TMG) have signed an all-rights output deal that covers Germany, Austria and German-speaking Switzerland for up to seven pictures per year. The deal in Switzerland only covers DVD and TV rights. In …

BURBANK: ABC series are once again the most popularly recorded and played back, according to Nielsen’s Live + 7 Day information, which showed freshman sci-fi drama V jump by 2.4 million viewers.  ABC’s Grey’s Anatomy was TV’s most played back show, …

LOS ANGELES: FX has acquired the ad-supported TV rights to the four Twilight movies in a package deal with Summit Entertainment.  FX will start airing the first film in the Twilight franchise in late 2011. The Twilight Saga: New Moon, …

ALVISO: TiVo has entered into an agreement with Google to provide analytical data to advertisers about viewers who watch TV using the DVR service.   This deal will enable Google TV Ads to draw on anonymous, second-by-second DVR viewing data from …

MAINZ: ZDF Enterprises has taken on the worldwide distribution rights for the ecological HD documentary The Antarctica Challenge: A Global Warning across all media.  The one-hour doc looks at Antarctica to spotlight the climate-change crisis. It explores first-hand the environmental challenges facing that …