World Screen

TORONTO: Cookie Jar Entertainment has struck new deals for series such as Metajets, Caillou, Johnny Test and Hurray for Huckle/Busytown Mysteries. Metajets is scheduled to air on Nickelodeon in Spain and Portugal in 2010 and on Turkey’s Dogan TV/D-Smart Platform. …

LONDON: Headlining Power’s slate of big-budget dramas is the environmental disaster title Ice. Currently filming in New Zealand, Ice, a co-production from Power and Screentime, follows the destructive effects of global warming, as the human race finds itself on the …

LOS ANGELES: A lineup of 23 feature films and more than 100 hours of series and specials will be introduced to buyers at MIPCOM from Moving Pictures Film & TV, which recently acquired the Bennett Media Worldwide operation. Moving Pictures …

TORONTO: Canadian multi-faith and multicultural network VisionTV has put its fourth comedy-drama series into development: Flatearth E.R. from Angel Entertainment. The show focuses on a  strong-willed South African surgeon who moves to a small community in Saskatchewan, where she must learn to co-exist with …

VIENNA: Iran’s IRIB has taken on more than 80 hours of fiction programming from the Austrian Broadcasting Corporation (ORF), including a package of six TV movies. Further titles in the IRIB buy include the crime series K-Files and Trautmann. The …

TORONTO: DECODE Enterprises has lined up a slate of new preschool shows, including dirtgirlworld, alongside tween live-action titles like How to Be Indie. The series dirtgirlworld is a commission by ABC, CBeebies and CBC. The show blends live action and …

LONDON: British broadcaster Five is set to roll out an updated version of the classic series Name That Tune, co-produced by GroupM Entertainment and Gallowgate, the production company set up by popular television personalities Ant and Dec. Name That Tune will …

LONDON: Parthenon Kids has snapped up the worldwide distribution rights for the preschool series Castle Farm, which is set to air on Five in the U.K. next year. From Impossible Television, Castle Farm is a 25×5-minute series that mixes 2-D …

LONDON/NEW YORK: HIT Entertainment is partnering with Josh Selig’s Little Airplane Productions to jointly develop original preschool content for the worldwide market. Selig—creator of The Wonder Pets!, Oobi! and 3rd & Bird, among others, and founder and president of Little …

LONDON: UKTV has acquired MasterChef Australia from Shine International to air on its new pay-TV entertainment channel Watch, as well as on Good Food. Originally produced by FremantleMedia Australia for Network Ten, MasterChef Australia will receive its U.K. premiere on …