World Screen

LOS ANGELES: FOX kicks off its 2009-2010 season on September 9 with the sixth installment of So You Think You Can Dance at 8 p.m., followed by the series premiere of Glee at 9 p.m. Brothers will debut with a …

LONDON: British men’s entertainment channel Bravo has signed a year-long deal with Ginx TV for a video-gaming series, GameFace, dedicated to interactive entertainment that will air weekly later this summer. GameFace, hosted by Julia Hardy, will offer viewers the chance …

LONDON: The 78×7-minute 3-D animation Angelo Rules, for France 3 and TéléTOON, is the latest project to come out of the partnership between CAKE Entertainment and Paris-based studio TeamTO. The partnership aims to leverage CAKE‘s editorial perspective and knowledge of the global …

LOS ANGELES: The multiplatform kids’ entertainment service Kabillion surpassed 3 million VOD orders in May and June, according to data from Rentrak. As of July 1, Kabillion has become the sixth highest-rated channel overall among children’s VOD services on the …

BURBANK: Kia Motors is on board as the exclusive sponsor of a new five-part web series on ABC.com focusing on Lost‘s Dharma Initiative. Mysteries of the Universe: The Dharma Initiative is a mock documentary series exploring the fictional organization from …

NEW YORK/LONDON: Two new Dutch-language deals have been secured by AETN UK to launch HISTORY and HISTORY HD onto additional platforms in Benelux. In the Netherlands, both the high-definition and standard-definition services for HISTORY are now carried on CanalDigitaal, while …

LONDON: The BBC has announced that it will begin sharing a selection of its online video news content with the websites of several leading British newspapers, beginning with The Daily Telegraph, the Guardian, the Independent and the Daily Mail. The …

PARIS: The Japanese girl group AKB48 will perform at the MIPCOM opening cocktail party at the Majestic Hotel, where variety-show producer and inventor of the format, Yasushi Akimoto, will be be on hand. AKB48 was created by Akimoyo with the …

BEIJING: Discovery Networks Asia-Pacific is teaming up with the Chinese search engine giant Baidu for a localized website for the Discovery Channel. Discovery Channel Chinese, launching today at discovery.baidu.com, provides a platform for users to interact and share knowledge and information …

HAMILTON: Central European Media Enterprises (CME) has reached a deal to acquire the Romanian production and distribution outfit MediaPro Entertainment from firms controlled by Adrian Sarbu. CME will shell out $10 million in cash to MediaPro Management and MediaPro BV, both controlled by …