World Screen

CANNES, October 11: As MIPCOM Junior kicked off in Cannes today, the German channel KI.KA is celebrating it highest ratings since its 1997 launch, with a market share of 19.8 percent of kids 3 to 13. The latest figures are …

NEW YORK, October 11: After record-breaking performances on USA Network this summer, Burn Notice and Psych have both received renewal orders for 16 episodes each. The two shows fared particularly well with the core 18-to-49 segment, with Burn Notice scoring …

LONDON, October 11: Hungary’s RTL Klub has premiered its own version of ITV Global Entertainment’s hit format I’m A Celebrity Get Me Out of Here! The Hungarian version launched last week as Celeb Vagyok, Ments Ki Innen, netting a 37.9-percent …

CANNES, October 11: In a deal concluded by AB International Distribution, France 3 has picked up the rights to Southern Star’s successful Australian drama City Homicide. The French terrestrial took on the 36-episode show for launch in prime time in …

CANNES, October 11: Outright Distribution has clinched its first agreement on the six-part series World’s Strictest Parents, with SBS Netherlands set to air the British production. Produced by Twenty Twenty, which, like Outright, is owned by Shed Media Group, World’s …

CANNES, October 11: Leopard International has placed a range of programming with the Australian channel XYZ, it was announced at MIPCOM today. The agreement includes Good Bid Good Buy, which advises people on how to land a dream home at …

Live-On CARD LIVE-R, Kakeru, with an initial plan to produce 51 half-hour episodes for worldwide distribution. The original Live-On CARD LIVE-R, Kakeru is being published as a trading-card game by Poplar. The series made its television premiere in Japan on …

VANCOUVER, October 11: Studio B Productions has a range of new animated series in development, including Caveboy and Hillcrest Park, to present to international buyers. The preschool series Caveboy follows Hagos, an inquisitive boy who lives in a prehistoric playland. …

Snake Tales follows two completely different teenage girls who are forced to live together along with their eccentric families in a run-down snake park in Outback Australia. The series, from Westside Film & Television, watches as the girls discover that …

LONDON, October 10: Tobi de Graaff has been tapped as the director of global television distribution at ITV Global Entertainment, it was announced today, with Jayne Redpath upped to oversee all European sales and Evi Nicopoulos assuming responsibility for the …