World Screen

LONDON: The licensing rights for Fifi and the Flowertots will revert back to Chapman Entertainment in May, while Target Entertainment Group continues to represent the property for international TV sales. Target and Chapman are ending their current partnership agreement, and …

LOS ANGELES: Showtime has renewed The Tudors for its fourth and final season, to air in spring 2010, focusing on King Henry VIII’s relationships with his last two wives, Catherine Howard and Catherine Parr. The pickup of another ten-episode season comes on …

TORONTO: The Canadian entertainment firm Knightscove Media Corp. has entered into a non-binding letter of intent to acquire the distributor Ellis Entertainment, adding some 600 titles to its existing library. Knightscove specializes in the creation and financing of live-action, family-friendly …

LOS ANGELES: Shea Fontana has been upped to VP of children’s programming for PorchLight Entertainment, with expanded responsibilities to include the development, production and acquisition of all genres of children’s programming. Fontana joined PorchLight in 2006, and quickly moved into …

LONDON: The premiere of the new Red Dwarf series on Dave scored a total of 2.66 million viewers, which is being billed as the largest audience ever for a British commission on non-terrestrial TV in the U.K. Red Dwarf: Back to …

MUNICH: Studio100 Media’s animated preschool series Zigby, which follows three young friends who live on a jungle island, has landed a spot in the CBeebies lineup. The series is created by children’s author Brian Paterson and based on the Harper …

TORONTO: Several analysts have warned investors to avoid acquiring stock in Canwest Global Communications, with the Canadian giant expected to miss its $30.4 million debt interest payment tomorrow. According to a Reuters report, if Canwest misses its payment deadline tomorrow, …

MUNICH/CANNES: Bavaria Media locked in a number of deals at MIPTV for, among other titles, the TV version of Heinrich Breloer’s Buddenbrooks: The Decline of a Family. The two-part adaptation of Thomas Mann’s famous novel is set for broadcast in …

TORONTO: A range of tween-targeted and adult-oriented programming from TELETOON and TELETOON Detour is now available on the iTunes Store in Canada. Customers can purchase and download episodes of series such as 6TEEN, Total Drama Island and Total Drama Action. …

LONDON: KidsCo and Inspidea are teaming up to produce a 13×2-minute "green" animation, Boo and Me, which will air as a pay-TV exclusive to the channel worldwide and will air on KidsCo throughout Europe, Russia, Middle East, Africa and Asia. …