World Screen

LONDON, June 26: Sooty, the puppet bear that has been airing on British kids’ TV since the 1950s, has been acquired by the show’s most recent presenter, Richard Cadell, in a deal reported to be worth about £1 million. Cadell …

LONDON/NEW YORK/PARIS, June 26: Nickelodeon and Viacom Consumer Products (NVCP) and French designer Corinne Cobson have teamed for an exclusive apparel line for mothers and daughters inspired by the hit preschool property Dora the Explorer. The line, called Dora par …

LONDON, June 26: Turner Broadcasting has acquired the new CGI Garfield series from French producer Dargaud Media, to air on Cartoon Network in the U.K. in 2009, coinciding with the 30th anniversary of the classic comic strip. The 52×11-minute series …

BURBANK, June 26: DIC Entertainment has tapped GoFish as its exclusive online advertising representative across its network of sites, which include Kewlopolis.com and KewlCartoons.com. GoFish will provide content-appropriate, on-page and broadband ads on DIC’s youth-focused web destinations. The portfolio includes …

LONDON, June 26: Parthenon Entertainment has secured a raft of sales for its factual content across Central and Eastern Europe, including a package deal to Romania’s TVR. TVR picked up 39 hours from Parthenon, along with nine hours from S4CI’s …

OTTAWA, June 26: Family Channel in Canada has commissioned a fourth season of The Secret World of Benjamin Bear from Amberwood Entertainment, to air on Playhouse Disney. The preschool show has been licensed to more than 110 territories worldwide. Jonathan …

LONDON, June 26: NBDtv/DCD Media has inked sales on three documentaries produced by September Films and executive produced by creative director Sheldon Lazarus: Boys Joined at the Head, Stephen Wiltshire: The Human Camera and I Am the Elephant Man. The …

MUNICH, June 26: Telepool signed a host of deals at DISCOP for its slate of event movies, series and documentaries, including a TV-movie package for Hungary and a doc bundle for Poland. Multiple seasons of the action series Alarm for …

LONDON, June 25: Despite a rapid take-up of high-definition television sets across Europe—with a penetration of 18 percent of the region’s 165 million TV households at the end of 2007—there is still a dearth of HD content available to watch, …

LONDON, June 25: According to data from the comScore Video Metrix service, 27.4 million British Internet users viewed 3.5 billion videos online in March 2008, with almost half seen on YouTube. Google sites, including YouTube, took a 48-percent share of …