World Screen

CANNES: Several lifestyle series from Knight Enterprises will be made available on the recently unveiled personalized TV platform ZillionTV in the U.S. as part of a three-year deal announced at MIPTV. The agreement will bring select episodes of The Edible Roadshow and …

CANNES: Portfolio Entertainment is working with TELETOON in Canada to develop the new series HOOD, an original, cross-platform, half-hour animated comedy-adventure. The series follows the exploits of a secret global organization of teens who don super-charged hoodies to defend the …

PARIS: Cyber Group Studios, best known for its animation and new-media portfolio, has expanded its operations into news and documentaries, with its first factual project recently scooped up by France 24. Formerly known as Cyber Group Animation, the French outfit …

CANNES: Discovery Enterprises International has landed several deals to launch program blocks with European broadcasters, including RTL in Croatia. Germany’s kabel eins renewed its Discovery Channel branded block agreement through 2009. Featuring 50 hours of content per year, the weekly branded …

LONDON: Virgin Media Television (VMtv) has appointment ed Donna Lazard to scheduling manager for LIVING and LIVING2. Lazard reporting to Chris Collie, the head of scheduling and channel strategy for VMtv. She was previously the program planning manager for Paramount …

BARCELONA: Imira Entertainment has been appointed by HIT Entertainment to represent its TV rights catalogue for home-entertainment distribution in Spain and Portugal. Imira now serves as the company’s key licensing agent for TV rights across HIT’s preschool portfolio, which includes …

CANNES: The worldwide sales rights for Living Goddess, which spotlights the Himalayan kingdom of Nepal, are now being represented by ContentFilm International. The film travels to Nepal, where, according to Hindu/Buddhist tradition, three young girls are worshipped as living goddesses. …

CANNES: MediaCorp TV is on board for an Asian version of Just for Laughs Gags, with 13 half hours worth of footage to be shot in Singapore. Just For Laughs has entered into an exclusive agreement with MediaCorp TV to co-produce …

CANNES, March 31: Sprout in the U.S. has acquired the Halifax Film production Mighty Jungle from DECODE Enterprises for launch April 24. The 46×11-minute puppet series will premiere as part of a special week of Earth Week programming on the …

STOCKHOLM: Viasat Broadcasting has secured the exclusive live broadcasting pay-TV rights to Kontinental Hockey League (KHL) for the next three years on Viasat Sport Baltic. The deal covers at least 64 games per season from the league, which includes 21 …