World Screen

EL SEGUNDO, September 5: Mattel has announced yet another recall of China-made toys—its third in just over a month—over impermissible levels of lead found in Barbie- and Fisher-Price-branded products, for a total of 530,000 items in the U.S. and 318,000 …

SEATTLE/ENGLEWOOD CLIFFS, September 5: Amid its spat with Apple’s iTunes Store, NBC Universal Television has reached a deal to offer up a variety of television content on the digital video download service Amazon Unbox, including new fall NBC series like …

BERLIN/LONDON/NEW YORK, September 4: Ulrich W. Klein has been tapped to fill the position of Nickelodeon and Viacom Consumer Products’ (NVCP) VP of consumer products for Germany, based in Berlin. While leading the consumer products team in Germany, Klein is …

MEXICO CITY, September 4: In a deal brokered by its international sales agent Comarex, TV Azteca has licensed its telenovela Love Under Construction to Caracol’s free-TV channel for premiere in Colombia tomorrow at 5:15 p.m. Love Under Construction has already …

LONDON, September 4: Turner Broadcasting System (TBS) Europe will launch Nuts TV on Britain’s Freeview channel 42 on September 12, offering comedic live and originally produced content for young male viewers. Inspired by IPC’s men’s weekly magazine, the channel will …

HILVERSUM, September 4: Endemol Polska’s Big Brother 4.1 launched on TV4 over the weekend and delivered a more than five-fold increase in audience share in its time slot. In comparison to the channel average of less than two percent for …

MUNICH, September 4: SevenOne International has announced that the German telenovela Love is in the Air has premiered in Latvia on LNT in a daily 7:30 p.m. slot. Inara Kraukle, the acquisitions manager at LNT, said of the pickup: "Traditionally, …

PARIS, September 4: A Kind of Magic, the new animated comedy series from Xilam that is set to debut on France 3 in fall 2008, has already been picked up by Disney Channel in a host of markets, as well …

OTTAWA, September 4: Amberwood Entertainment has entered into an agreement with Mattel for toys and various other products based on the new 3-D-animated series RollBots. The 26×30-minute action-comedy series, aimed at children aged 6 to 11, is based on an …

VIENNA, September 4: ORF has begun production in Vienna on the new 4×45-minute series Polly Adler, which follows a single mother and society journalist who tries to cope with the competing demands of family and career. The new series will …