World Screen

NEW YORK, May 8: American retail chain Steve & Barry’s will collaborate with FremantleMedia Enterprises (FME) on the rollout of a new apparel line incorporating signature phrases and iconography from classic game shows like The Price is Right, Press Your …

SAN FRANCISCO, May 8: Joy Tashjian Marketing Group (JTMG) has unveiled a roster of charter licensees for several NBC Universal television properties, including the Bravo reality series Top Chef and the NBC drama Heroes. For Top Chef, JTMG has secured …

LOS ANGELES, May 8: BabyFirstTV, which recently scored a deal to license some of its baby- and toddler-targeted content to Shanghai Media Group’s BesTV IPTV platform in China, has inked a carriage deal with Time Warner Cable in the U.S. …

MUNICH, May 8: Studio100 Media has secured a partnership to manage the worldwide distribution rights (excluding North and South America and the U.K.) for three CBBC programs: The Slammer, Trapped and Beat the Boss. The Slammer is a comedic series, …

SINGAPORE, May 8: ESPN STAR Sports (ESS) has inked a deal with Imagine OmniMedia, the producer of The Contender Asia, to jointly develop, produce and broadcast Sport*Star Football, a global reality football entertainment series, in Asia. The series will be …

LONDON/MOSCOW, May 8: Zodiak Television’s Russian business development unit, Zodiak Vostok, has completed a format deal with First Channel Russia for a new season of Stars on Stage. The first season of the Russian version of the celebrity-based format, called …

NEW YORK/AGOURA HILLS, May 8: Marvel Animation, a division of Marvel Entertainment, will produce a new 26×30-minute animated series, Marvel Super Hero Squad, for premiere in 2009. The broadcast partner for the new series has not been announced. Marvel Super …

LOS ANGELES, May 8: Spike TV has revealed a slate of male-skewing, non-scripted original pilots, which includes the new docu-series River Men, centered on the work of the men who tow barges through the Mississippi River. The development slate also …

ATLANTA, May 8: The world-premiere trailer for the upcoming CG-animated movie Star Wars: The Clone Wars will debut today across five Turner networks simultaneously. At 7:58 p.m. in all U.S. time zones, a two-minute preview of the new animated adventure …

MIAMI, May 8: Nickelodeon Latin America has completed a deal with Sony Pictures Television International (SPTI) to co-produce Isa TKM (Te Quiero Mucho), its first original telenovela, to be produced in Venezuela. The novela will be produced in Spanish and …