World Screen

MONTREAL/LOS ANGELES, December 17: Bejuba! Entertainment has inked a new deal with French broadcaster Canal J for the CGI-animated action-comedy series Jibber Jabber, for debut this holiday season. The 26-episode series, targeting 6- to 12-year-olds, features two imaginative 7-year-old fraternal …

LONDON, December 17: Power will be presenting a wide-ranging slate at NATPE, including drama, action-adventure, sci-fi/fantasy and contemporary adaptations, headlined by Robinson Crusoe. Robinson Crusoe is a 13-part drama being produced for NBC. Directed by Yves Simoneau, this adaptation of …

TEL AVIV, December 17: Dori Media Group (DMG) announced that it has sold an additional 1,806 hours of its telenovela series and formats to international broadcasters, for total combined sales of $2.6 million. The company announced that total sales could …

LONDON, December 17: BBC Worldwide has added celebrity interviews from British chat-show legend Michael Parkinson to its dedicated channel on the video sharing site YouTube. In the 25 years of his chat show, Parkinson has interviewed celebrities like Dame Judi …

NEW YORK, December 17: Food Network and Rachael Ray have secured a two-year agreement for a new prime-time series, Rachael’s Vacation, for launch in January, as well as an extension of her signature daytime series 30 Minute Meals for 60 …

NEW YORK, December 17: Showtime has acquired the hit British series Secret Diary of a Call Girl, a half-hour comedy based on the best-selling, real-life diaries of a high-end call girl, from IMG Media. Showtime will air the first 8×30-minute …

LOS ANGELES, December 17: The American Film Institute (AFI) has unveiled the official selections for the eighth annual AFI Awards, which honor the best of this year’s film and television. For its top 10 TV programs of 2007, AFI’s official …

STOCKHOLM, December 17: Modern Times Group’s (MTG) CDON e-commerce subsidiary has reached deals to acquire 100 percent of the Finnish online book retailer Helsingin Dataclub Oy and 90.1 percent of the Swedish online children’s clothes retailer Linus & Lotta Postorder …

LONDON, December 17: The U.K.’s Competition Commission has submitted its final report on BSkyB’s 17.9 percent ITV stake to the Secretary of State for Business, Enterprise and Regulatory Reform, John Hutton, who has 30 days to issue his ruling. The …

LONDON, December 17: FremantleMedia and its parent company, the RTL Group, today unveiled plans to launch a multi-million-euros film studio in Germany, via its local subsidiary UFA. In a statement, the company called the move “one of the most significant …