World Screen

TORONTO, June 22: FUN Technologies, which specializes in online gaming and fantasy sports content, is forming an independent committee to consider a buyout offer from Liberty Media. Liberty Media currently owns 53 percent of the company and has offered to …

LOS ANGELES, June 22: ABC News claims it was outbid by NBC News for Paris Hilton’s first post-prison interview; NBC executives, meanwhile are denying that the network offered the heiress a reported $1 million for an exclusive appearance on the …

NEW YORK, June 22: General Electric and Pearson have decided not to pursue the acquisition of Dow Jones & Company, publisher of The Wall Street Journal, pushing News Corporation’s $5-billion bid for the company closer to success. In a statement, …

TORONTO, June 21: Portfolio Entertainment has received a commission from TELETOON in Canada for a fourth season of 13 episodes of the animated tween comedy Carl2 (Carl Squared). Carl2 currently airs on TELETOON in Canada, Nickelodeon in Germany, Jetix in …

NEW YORK, June 21: Scholastic Media’s stop-motion animated preschool series Dragon will return to qubo—the children’s programming block airing on NBC, Telemundo and ION Television—for a second season of 13 new episodes, this September. Dragon made its U.S. broadcast premiere …

LONDON, June 21: Virgin Media Television’s game-show entertainment channel Challenge has commissioned Graham Norton’s So Television to create a new clip show, entitled NortonLand. The series will showcase the best games from Graham Norton’s nightly show on Channel 4. Each …

LOS ANGELES, June 21: MarVista Entertainment arrived at DISCOP this week with several deals already concluded in the region, including licensing more than a dozen movies to Zonemedia’s Zone Romantica channel in Eastern Europe. Zonemedia acquired more than a dozen …

HOLLYWOOD, June 21: Cinamour Entertainment has reached a distribution deal to bring the new half-hour celebrity court reality series Jury Duty to international markets. The deal was reached with the series’ producer and creator Vincent Dymon. Jury Duty premieres September …

BEVERLY HILLS/MUMBAI, June 21: Twentieth Century Fox Licensing & Merchandising (Fox L&M) has partnered with STAR India for the creation of StarFox India, a new licensing division that aims to maximize the penetration of both Fox and STAR’s film and …

LONDON, June 21: Granada International has taken on the international distribution rights to the new TV movie My Boy Jack, commissioned by ITV1 and starring Daniel Radcliffe and Kim Cattrall. The 95-minute feature from Ecosse Films is based on a …