World Screen

NEW YORK/ATLANTA, February 13: Independent children’s animation producer Animation Collective has licensed its preschool series Ellen’s Acres to Boomerang Latin America. The 52×11-minute comedy features a 5-year-old girl named Ellen, her feather duster, her radial tire, the hotel she owns …

JAKARTA/NEW YORK, February 13: A new children’s series from Sesame Workshop, titled Jalan Sesama, will premiere next week on the Indonesian channel Trans7. Produced by nonprofit educational organization Sesame Workshop in association with Jakarta-based Creative Indigo Production, Jalan Sesama features …

VANCOUVER, February 13: Aly Jetha and Shabnam Rezaei have launched the Canadian-based animation studio Big Bad Boo Studios, and have tapped industry veteran Glen Kennedy, who has worked for Cartoon Network and Walt Disney Television, among others, as the company’s …

ATLANTA, February 13: Bakugan, the hit anime series that has been successful in Japan and Canada, is making its U.S. debut on Cartoon Network on February 24 at 9 p.m. Furthermore, Cartoon Network Enterprises (CNE) has been appointed as the …

CHICAGO, February 13: Oprah Winfrey has revealed the 61st Oprah’s Book Club selection, A New Earth by Eckhart Tolle, and will join the author to teach a 10-week webcast series of classes on Oprah.com. For the first time ever, readers …

LONDON, February 13: FremantleMedia Enterprises (FME) is setting up its own DVD label, FHE Australia, to manage its home-entertainment content in Australia and New Zealand, which will be distributed via destra vision. FHE Australia will be run by a local …

TORONTO, February 13: Producer Jon Plowman will receive the Lifetime Achievement Award at the 29th Banff World Television Festival (BWTVF), taking place at the Fairmont Banff Springs Hotel in Alberta, Canada, June 8 to 11. The Lifetime Achievement Award recognizes …

MEXICO CITY, February 13: BabyTV, a 24-hour commercial-free network targeted at infants and toddlers under the age of 3, has launched in Mexico on Cablevision’s basic-channels tier, in a fully localized Spanish version. BabyTV in Mexico was launched by Fox …

DOHA/LONDON, February 13: Al Jazeera English has clinched a deal to roll out in Vietnam, via VTC Digital Television. The deal brings the English-language international news network to more than 2 million homes in Vietnam. Operated by Vietnam Multimedia Corporation, …

MAINZ, February 13: Germany’s ZDF Enterprises says it racked up a record number of program sales in 2007, marking the third straight year that the company’s program sales have established a new milestone. ZDF’s top-selling programs included the telenovela Julia—Paths …