World Screen

CANNES, April 17: E! Networks has licensed over 325 hours of its entertainment and lifestyle-themed programming into the Asia-Pacific region, including its signature Live from the Red Carpet at the Academy Awards programming to O’Live and M.NET in Korea. Australia’s …

SYDNEY/CANNES, April 17: Beyond Distribution has licensed its 13×30-minute animated series Milly, Molly to YLE Finnish Broadcasting Co. and Norwegian Broadcasting Corporation (NRK), and has also concluded a number of sales for its factual and lifestyle programming. Targeted at children …

TORONTO, April 17: Breakthrough Animation has licensed 26 half-hour episodes of the 3-D animated series Miss BG to Cartoon Network’s Cartoonito in the U.K. for premiere on May 24. Miss BG is a co-production between ELLIPSANIME, Breakthrough Animation, TVO, TFO …

BERLIN, April 17: Action Image, a subsidiary of Action Concept Film, and the German broadcaster ProSieben have begun pre-production in Berlin on the pilot of an English-language urban street-racing drama series with the working title Fast Track: No Limits. The …

CANNES, April 17: In addition to its big new drama launches for MIPTV, led by Love You to Death, FremantleMedia Enterprises has a significant factual slate in Cannes this week, bolstered by a deal with British filmmakers Atlantic Productions for …

CANNES/LONDON, April 17: MTV Networks International is in Cannes this week offering international platforms the digital media content rights to Comedy Central’s long-running, award-winning animated series South Park. The move is being billed as a significant step forward in MTVNI's …

CANNES, April 17: Buena Vista International Television has closed free-to-air terrestrial deals in more than 80 markets on its CGI preschool series Mickey Mouse Clubhouse, following its success on Playhouse Disney and Disney Channels worldwide. “We’re delighted to introduce a …

LONDON, April 17: Power has picked up the worldwide distribution rights to two long-running U.S. daytime dramas: Guiding Light and As The World Turns. Both serials, which were originally created by the celebrated soap writer Irna Phillips, have together attracted …

NASHVILLE, April 17: On Earth Day on Sunday, April 22, the Documentary Channel (DOC) in the U.S. is launching a new EarthView programming block. The new destination, devoted to eco-friendly documentaries, will air every Sunday night at 7 p.m. through …

CANNES, April 17: TF1 will debut this fall a French version of Beauty & The Geek, a format from Twentieth Century Fox Television Distribution that first aired in the U.S. on The CW. Production will begin immediately on eight episodes …