World Screen

CHENNAI, October 14: A new joint-venture agreement sees DQ Entertainment teaming up with France’s LPPTV and Method Animation to co-produce a Little Prince TV series, backed by France 3. Originally written in 1943, The Little Prince is based on the …

CANNES, October 14: ITV Global Entertainment’s Granada International Australia division has renewed its output deal with TVNZ, keeping the long-running soap Coronation Street on the flagship channel TV One. Announcing the multigenre, multiyear deal, Augustus Dulgaro, the senior VP of …

SÃO PAULO, October 14: Globo TV International has placed Guilherme Bokel at the helm of a new Board of International Production, which will assist the company in its efforts to develop and roll out content for the global market. "According …

ENGLEWOOD, October 14: Party Down, a new half-hour original comedy series, will debut exclusively on Starz in the first quarter of 2009, and is the first show produced for the network by its sister company, Starz Media. The comedy is …

CANNES, October 14: New York-based Animation Collective and France’s Canal+ have sealed a broadcast partnership for four animated series: Three Delivery, Ellen’s Acres, Jolly Rabbit and HTDT. Produced as a U.S./Canadian co-venture by Animation Collective and Fatkat Studios in partnership …

CANNES, October 14: Myvideorights.com is set to provide YouTube with a range of professionally produced and rights-cleared clips across genres such as comedy, sports, celebrity and animation. Myvideorights.com will integrate its proprietary Videx platform with YouTube’s API (Application Programme Interface), …

NEW YORK/COLOGNE, October 14: RUSH, VOOM HD Networks’ 24-hour linear channel dedicated to extreme sports, has joined the offerings of European digital platform Eutelsat’s KabelKiosk, a 100-channel digital satellite service available to operators in Germany, Austria, Switzerland, Luxemburg and Denmark. …

MUNICH/CANNES, October 14: Second Chance, a new telenovela produced by Alma Productions for France’s TF1, will have 180 episodes on offer at MIPCOM from Bavaria Media. Shot in HD, the daily half-hour series has a cast of some 30 recurring …

SINGAPORE, October 14: The international European news network euronews will be available in Singapore on SingTel’s mio TV from October 15 in four different languages: English, French, German and Italian. The multilingual channel provides international news from a European perspective. …

CANNES, October 14: Three new senior executives have joined the international team at Rainbow Media Holdings, which is representing the Sundance Channel for the first time at MIPCOM. Ed Palluth, an industry veteran and long-time Rainbow Media executive, has been …