World Screen

TORONTO, June 25: Family Channel in Canada has commissioned a third season of 26×11-minute episodes of the preschool series Franny’s Feet from DECODE Entertainment. The series, which follows the adventures of a little girl and her magical shoes, was recently …

LONDON, June 25: Channel 4 International (C4i), part of the Digital Rights Group, has sold a host of documentary programming to Belgian broadcaster VRT, as part of a continuing output deal. The package includes My Boyfriend the Sex Tourist, Teenage …

TORONTO/LOS ANGELES, June 25: Oasis International has signed an 11-title deal with Hallmark International for the U.K., Poland, Hungary, Turkey, Benelux and feeds in the Middle East and Russia. Included in the deal are the Lifetime/CTV movie Murder on Her …

DUBLIN, June 25: A raft of new broadcasters have signed on for Monster Distributes’ animated non-dialogue series Gazoon, including NRK in Norway, Cartoon Network in Japan and TV2 in Denmark, among others. Further sales for the series include YLE in …

PARIS, June 25: Production & Partners Multimedia (PPM) has appointed RMP as the French licensing agency for its animated series Panshel, airing on Piwi and Gulli in France. RMP will develop a licensing and merchandising program, excluding books and interactive …

MIAMI, June 25: From the producers of the Billboard Latin Music Awards comes Levántate, a new morning show that combines news, world entertainment and viewer interactivity, to be produced live from Telemundo’s WKAQ Studios in Puerto Rico. The two-hour live …

CHICAGO, June 25: Peter Marks has been named as the new VP of development at Towers Productions, with oversight of all the company’s creative and business-development activities and client relationships. Continuing to report to the company’s chairman and executive producer, …

ENCINO, June 24: A new report from the Entertainment Merchants Association (EMA) forecasts that home-video spending in the U.S. will rise just 7 percent to $25.6 billion in 2012 from $24 billion in 2007. The 2008 Annual Report on the …

LOS ANGELES, June 24: The chief negotiator of the Screen Actors Guild (SAG) has issued a statement defending the union’s “Vote No” campaign, in which it is encouraging members who also belong to the American Federation of Television and Radio …

TORONTO, June 24: After abandoning merger talks earlier this year, Peace Arch Entertainment Group and ContentFilm have inked a deal to combine their U.S. home-entertainment operations to create one of the largest independent DVD distributors in the American market. Effective …