World Screen

FOSTER CITY/LOS GATOS: Netflix and Sony Computer Entertainment America have signed a deal that enables access to thousands of movies and TV shows via PlayStation 3. Netflix expects to begin streaming to TVs via the PS3 system next month at no additional cost …

MONTREAL: The Alliance for Children and Television (ACT) will be announcing the preliminary results of the largest study to date on Canadian children’s and youth programming at the upcoming Children, Youth & Media Conference, taking place November 19.  Led by the …

LOS ANGELES: Vuguru, a division of Michael Eisner‘s The Tornante Company, is to be spun-off as a stand-alone entity, after securing an investment from Canada’s Rogers Media. Eisner will serve as chairman of the newly-formed company’s board of directors. The …

  SYDNEY: Three documentary titles have been sold by Beyond Distribution across Scandinavian and Central European territories: Lost Adventures of Childhood, The 200kg Kid and How To Divorce & Not Wreck the Kids. Lost Adventures of Childhood sold to Planete …

LONDON: Chello Zone has taken the basic cable rights to The Jerry Springer Show from NBC Universal International Television Distribution, to air on CBS Reality, part of the company’s new U.K. joint venture with CBS Studios International. On November 16, the Zone …

LOS ANGELES: Production is under way on The Wish List, starring Jennifer Esposito and David Sutcliffe and slated to premiere on Hallmark Channel in 2010.  The love story follows a highly organized young woman (Esposito, Samantha Who), who, after too many …

LONDON: ITV Studios Global Entertainment has launched its new direct-to-consumer Coronation Street online store, which will retail consumer product and home entertainment.  The new online store is integrated as part of the official Coronation Street website, which features episodes, news, previews, …

HARRINGTON PARK: Seasons 300 through 400 of the half-hour series Cartooning With Blitz have been sold by Janson Media to the Bogotá-based distributor Proculturales, which plans to syndicate the series to cable and terrestrial channels in Colombia. In the series, …

PARIS: Launched at MIPCOM by GEDEON Programmes, Portraits Self-Portraits, directed by Gilles Porte in association with UNICEF for the 20th anniversary of the Convention on the Rights of the Child, has notched up a slew of international sales. Co-produced in …

UNIVERSAL CITY: NBC has picked up the comedies Community and Parks and Recreation, as well as the drama Mercy, for an additional nine episodes each.  The freshman drama Mercy has averaged a 2.1 rating, 5 share in adults 18 to 49 …