World Screen

MONTREAL, June 5: Distraction has secured a partnership with boutique distributor Bomanbridge Media Limited, which will represent the Canadian-based company in Japan, Korea and China. Distraction will extend its format library to Bomanbridge, which is set to open an office …

LOS ANGELES, June 5: Fox Soccer Channel will launch its first-ever reality show, Soccer Dreams, on June 7 at 12 p.m., offering up a contract with a leading English club. The series follows the story of thousands of young players …

MUNICH/LONDON, June 5: TV-Loonland has inked a deal for a range of plush toys based on The Owl, in addition to securing further broadcasters and a new home-video partner for the short-form comedy. British toy outfit Vivid Imaginations has signed …

MIAMI, June 5: Venevision International has launched a new formats division, with Juan Andres Rodriguez as its VP of production and Hector Beltran as its director. The new unit already closed a deal for the U.S. Anglo market, and has …

SAN DIEGO, June 5: ESPN Mobile TV and NBC Sports on NBC 2Go have reached a deal with MediaFLO USA to bring 30 hours of live mobile video coverage of this year's U.S. Open golf championship to AT&T subscribers and …

LONDON, June 5: BBC Worldwide has picked up the international distribution rights to the Canadian drama The Session, scheduled to air in the 2008-09 season on CBC. BBC Worldwide will act as the exclusive international sales partner for the series, …

NEW YORK, June 5: Verizon FiOS TV will add more than 60 new channels to its lineup this summer, including Setanta Sports, with plans to offer up to 150 HD networks by the end of the year. The new channels …

UNIVERSAL CITY, June 5: NBC Universal Domestic Television Distribution has sold Dick Wolf’s hit drama Law & Order: Special Victims Unit in more than 70 percent of the U.S. for its weekday broadcast syndication debut in fall 2009. SVU has …

LOS ANGELES, June 5: Showtime Networks has fast-tracked the pickup of The United States of Tara, a comedy series executive produced by Steven Spielberg, DreamWorks Television and Diablo Cody, the Academy Award-winning writer of Juno. The 12×30-minute comedy, which will …

LONDON, June 5: IPTV operator Inuk Networks has received £9.5 million ($18.5 million) in second-round financing, led by Welsh broadcaster S4C’s commercial subsidiary S4C Digital Media (S4CDM) and venture-capital firm Wesley Clover. The new set of funding will be used …