World Screen

DUBAI, November 26: Dubai International Capital has picked up a “substantial” stake in Sony Corporation, its first investment in a Japanese company. The size of the investment was not disclosed. The stake was acquired through Dubai International Capital’s $2 billion …

ALVISO/NEW YORK, November 27: NBC Universal (NBCU) has reached a multiyear deal to begin selling TiVo’s interactive advertising and has agreed to subscribe to TiVo's Stop||Watch, a second-by-second commercial ratings research service. As part of the agreement, NBCU’s 14 television …

LONDON, November 27: BBC Worldwide, ITV and Channel 4 have formed a commercial three-way joint venture to launch an on-demand service in 2008, tentatively titled Kangaroo. The service will offer up more than 10,000 hours of current and archived programming …

LONDON, November 26: Tom Lucas has been appointed to the role of director of marketing and communications for UKTV, effective in January 2008. Reporting to the network’s controller, Matthew Littleford, Lucas will be responsible for all marketing and communications for …

STOCKHOLM, November 26: Sparks Network has added two new members in Scandinavia to its global format exchange collective: Sweden Baluba Television in Sweden and Mediacircus in Norway. Baluba Television is known for successful comedy shows such as Hey Baberiba and …

TAIWAN/HONG KONG, November 26: STAR has partnered with Hong Kong-based Artificial Life to develop and distribute 15 games for mobile phones based on the Taiwanese teenage pop groups Lollipop and Mei Mei. The games are available for download on Artificial …

LONDON, November 26: Entertainment Rights (ER) has licensed the children’s property Toopy & Binoo to numerous major broadcasters. ER has sold this 2-D animated preschool series about Toopy, a loveable mouse, and Binoo, a tiny cat, who are inseparable friends …

BARCELONA, November 26: Imira Entertainment, formerly known as Icon Animation, has closed a series of sales in Spain for its kids’ programming library. Imira Entertainment has partnered with ZDF Enterprises to place two of its shows on Spanish public broadcaster …

MUNICH, November 26: SevenOne International has sold its Sat 1. telenovela That’s Life to Ukrainian network ICTV, which is set to begin airing tomorrow. The telenovela will air tomorrow under the title Kokhannia v Berlini (Love in Berlin) in an …

SINGAPORE, November 26: Singapore’s Upside Down Concepts and LIC Australia have signed a co-production agreement at the Asia Factual Forum for a slate of 20 hours of documentary programming for the international television market, worth $4 million. Under the Memorandum …