World Screen

LONDON: Five has launched an iPhone app that will allow viewers in the U.K. to watch the UEFA Europa League matches live in full screen on their iPhone and iPod touch devices. The application goes live in time for tomorrow’s …

HOLLYWOOD: The Fraggle Rock Forever collection from The Jim Henson Company will have a tiered rollout, with a selection of product due in stores for holiday 2009 and more to come in spring 2010. The Fraggle Rock Forever collection will …

TORONTO: Shaftesbury Sales Company has licensed its Booky Movie Trilogy to Starz in the U.S. and Sky Movies in the U.K. Starz scored all three movies in the trilogy: Booky Makes Her Mark, Booky and the Secret Santa and Booky’s Crush. …

LAUSANNE: The International Olympic Committee (IOC) has awarded the broadcast rights for the Vancouver 2010 Winter Olympic Games and the London 2012 Olympic Games to International Media Content (IMC), the parent company of SportMax in the Caribbean. The rights deal covers …

UNIVERSAL CITY: NBC has announced plans for a new family-friendly game show, Perfect 10—executive produced by former NBC executive Craig Plestis and Identity‘s Tim Puntillo—that will be launched as a format to the international market at MIPCOM next week. The in-studio …

LONDON: The 3-D animated series Little Krishna leads off Evergreen Entertainment‘s slate, which also features Crazy Cavemen. Little Krishna, from BIG Animation, has been a hit on Nickelodeon India. The 13-episode series features Little Krishna being relentlessly pursued by demons …

LOS ANGELES: Matt LeBlanc has teamed up with David Crane and Jeffrey Klarik for a new single-camera comedy series that is due to premiere on Showtime and BBC Two in 2010. The six-episode Episodes has a show-within-a-show format, focusing on …

DALLAS: By 2014, revenues from the on-demand delivery of Internet content to the television set in the U.S. will reach $2.1 billion from $621 million this year, according to The Diffusion Group. By then, the report continues, revenues from over-the-top video …

LONDON: La Cage: Le Reality Show, a new format that searches for the next great female impersonator, is being represented by Debmar-Mercury International, which has already optioned the competition series to Endemol France. Based on Norbert Aleman’s Las Vegas revue …

LONDON: As Brand Licensing Europe opened in London today, Classic Media announced a deal for a Postman Pat animated theatrical release in 2011 and granted the master toy license for the new series Tinga Tinga Tales to Bandai. Classic Media …