World Screen

BURBANK: A third season of Wizards of Waverly Place has been ordered by Disney Channel. This will bring the total number of episodes in the series to 86. The series recently won the Emmy Award for Outstanding Children’s Program. Created by …

CEO, MarVista Entertainment Founded in 2003, MarVista Entertainment has focused on quality made-for-television movies as well as family and children’s programming that has sold throughout the world thanks to the company’s worldwide distribution organization. CEO Fernando Szew talks about the …

He started helping out in the kitchen of his father’s restaurant when he was just a schoolboy and by the age of 16, Jamie Oliver knew he wanted to be a chef. He found his way to television completely by …

    NEW YORK/LONDON: Go Entertain is to serve as the exclusive DVD and Blu-ray distribution and marketing partner in the U.K. for A&E Home Entertainment. Go Entertain will distribute programming from the library of A&E Television Networks, featuring programs …

LOS ANGELES: The combined sales operation of Moving Pictures Film & TV and Bennett Media Worldwide has sealed a range of deals in more than a dozen territories ahead of MIPCOM.  The deals include Elephant Boy being licensed to ARTE …

TORONTO: 9 Story Entertainment has received a commission from Canada’s YTV for the production of Almost Naked Animals, a 52×11-minute series schedule for a fall 2010 premiere. The fast-paced series, based on the popular website of the same name, features …

LONDON: Chello Zone has secured a deal with Africa’s My TV platform for the launch of the women’s lifestyle channel Zone Club as a 24-hour English-language offering this October. Zone Club features everything from drama to chat, health to documentaries …

TORONTO: Gordon Ramsay has signed a deal with Cuppa Coffee Studios for a prime-time animated series tentatively called Gordon Ramsay, At Your Service. The new show, still in an early stage, will feature an animated version of the fiery chef and …

TORONTO: Shaftesbury Sales Company has closed new deals in Latin America, Poland, United Arab Emirates and Israel for its teen comedy Overruled!, which has a total of 39 half-hour episodes available. Shaftesbury arrives at MIPCOM with 13 new episodes of …

TORONTO: The police drama Copper leads off the roster of programming from E1 Entertainment, alongside further titles such as The Bridge, Outlaw Bikers, Re-Vamped and Stormworld. The hour-long drama Copper centers on five rookie cops in the world big city …