World Screen

LONDON, June 22: Channel 4 International (C4I) has sold more than 15 hours of factual and comedy programming to German broadcaster RTL II. RTL II has picked up two big-budget productions from Pioneer Productions: Animals in the Womb and Miracles …

MEVASSERT ZION, June 22: Israel’s Armoza Formats has licensed 36 episodes of the dating format Foreplay—which originally aired on Israel’s Channel 10—to the Romanian channel Romantica. Foreplay will premiere on July 2 at 10 p.m. on Romantica, and air daily …

NEW YORK, June 22: HIT Entertainment is planning a range of events to celebrate the 20th anniversary of its successful global brand Barney, kicking off this September with a 20-city national Purple Bus Tour, sponsored by JAKKS Pacific and in …

LONDON, June 22: Turner Broadcasting System Europe’s Boomerang channel will debut the new kids’ live-action comedy series My Spy Family in the U.K. this September. My Spy Family is a co-production between Turner Broadcasting and Kindle Entertainment, a new independent …

LOS ANGELES, June 22: Azteca America, TV Azteca’s network for U.S. Hispanic audiences, is now available in 60 markets following new deals in Yuma, Arizona, and Chico, California. The deals give the network a presence in all of the top …

BRISTOL, June 22: Disney Channel has picked up the animated series Shaun the Sheep from the U.K.’s Aardman Animations for a prime-time premiere in the U.S. on July 8. Last week, Shaun the Sheep won the Cristal Award as Best …

LOS ANGELES, June 22: Lifetime Television has greenlit a new original movie with the working title Custody, starring Numb3rs’ Rob Morrow and Desperate Housewives’ James Denton. The movie will premiere on Lifetime this September. Custody features Morrow as a widowed …

NEW YORK, June 22: To celebrate the U.S. and international success of Heroes and to promote the launch of season one on DVD and HD DVD, NBC Universal is sending the show’s cast on a world tour at the end …

ATLANTA, June 22: TBS has acquired the rights to NBC’s highest-rated sitcoms, My Name is Earl and The Office. The deal with Twentieth Television brings My Name is Earl to the cable network in September 2009. Also included in the …

BETHPAGE, June 22: Cablevision Systems Corp. has announced that by the end of this year, it will have the capability to carry more than 500 channels of HD programming on its advanced fiber-optic network, led by the addition of 15 …