World Screen

NEW YORK: HIT Entertainment has struck a deal for JAKKS Pacific to manufacture and market a full line of products for Aardman Animation’s Timmy Time and Shaun the Sheep for the U.S. and Canada. Properties will include plush, electronic learning …

WEST PALM BEACH: ION Television has picked up a new feature-film package from Warner Bros. Domestic Television Distribution (WBDTD) that includes exclusive windows for The Departed and Ocean’s Thirteen. ION can begin airing titles immediately, with broadcast runs extending to next year. …

HARRINGTON PARK: A new agreement with Korean production company Korea Cinetel will see Janson Media take on responsibility for sourcing content for the new HD channel WiseTV. Janson will acquire between 60 and 80 hours of hi-def content for WiseTV, …

CHATSWORTH: Music and music-related urban programming from Image Entertainment’s portfolio will be distributed in Europe, Africa, South America and the Middle East by Universal Music Group, with a five-year agreement signed. The deal includes the entire Image Entertainment catalogue of …

NEW YORK: Ahead of the L.A. Screenings, TVLatina.tv, World Screen‘s market-leading Spanish-language website, has produced a special video report, Focused on the Future (Enfocados en el futuro), about the growth strategies of several Latin American companies. To see the report, …

ATLANTA: CAKE and Cartoon Network Enterprises (CNE) have entered into a partnership for the exclusive North American licensing rights for the hit Fresh TV franchise Total Drama, covering Total Drama Island and its new iteration, Total Drama Action. Through the agreement, …

BURBANK: The Walt Disney Company’s net profit in the second quarter dropped 46 percent to $613 million, on revenues that were 7-percent lower at $8.09 billion, largely as a result of a weaker performance at the studio entertainment division. "We …

LONDON: Set to join the ITV Global Entertainment catalogue is the drama We’rewolves, from British indie Wide-Eyed Entertainment (WEE). The 90-minute special begins with the discovery of a mutilated body, which leads investigating detectives into a complex world inhabited by …

NEW YORK: Bravo has signed up Picture This Television, behind the hit Kathy Griffin: My Life on the D-List, for a new multi-project development deal aimed at creating unscripted series and specials. Picture This Television’s co-owners, Bryan Scott and Lisa …

LONDON/TORONTO: Joe Houlihan is joining Cineflix Productions as the senior VP of programming, working across their operations in U.K., U.S. and Canada. Reporting to Simon Lloyd, the president of programming, Houlihan will have a focus on expanding the production slate …