World Screen

NEW YORK, April 12: CBS Corporation today unveiled the CBS Interactive Audience Network, making selected programming available online, for free, on a host of third-party platforms, among them AOL, Microsoft, Joost, Comcast, Sling Media, Veoh, CNET Networks, Bebo, Brightcove and …

LONDON, April 11: Zeal Television has secured the representation rights to the new musical game show format Singing Bee, which is currently in development for NBC. ITV in the U.K. has already picked up the rights and commissioned a 90-minute …

TORONTO, April 11: DECODE Entertainment will launch at MIPTV the new preschool series Bo on the GO!, which was commissioned by Canada’s CBC. Produced by Halifax Film, DECODE’s sister company in DHX Media Ltd., the series promotes an active lifestyle …

NEW YORK, April 11: American Greetings Properties is aiming to expand its international business, coming to MIPTV with a lineup of content from established series such as Care Bears—which is celebrating its 25th anniversary this year—to brand new properties like …

LONDON, April 11: Cake Distribution has licensed its 52×12-minute comedic adventure animated series Skunk Fu! to France 5, NRK and RAISAT, for premiere this fall. Cake Distribution has also licensed the series to Cartoon Network Asia. The series, targeted at …

NEW YORK, April 11: AETN International will be armed with over 280 hours of new programming at MIPTV next week, including the new “real-life” 12×1-hour series Sons of Hollywood, and returning series such as the 33×30-minute SWAT and the 38×30-minute …

MUNICH/LONDON, April 11: TV-Loonland has granted a toy license for its preschool series Little Princess to Martin Yaffe International for the rollout of new toys in the U.K. and Ireland beginning in February 2008. Martin Yaffe International will develop products …

LONDON, April 11: Entertainment Rights has secured a raft of new broadcast and home entertainment deals for its preschool series Rupert Bear—Follow the Magic, which has now been licensed into over 65 territories since its launch at MIPCOM 2005. The …

HILVERSUM, April 11: Endemol International has notched up a range of new deals on its U.S. productions, among them ABC’s Extreme Makeover: Home Edition. Season four of the show has sold to UKTV in the U.K., Polsat in Poland, Viasat …

Taffy Entertainment has secured four new deals for its animated series Fantastic Four—based on the Marvel franchise—in Europe and Latin America, with the U.K.’s GMTV acquiring the series for its weekend children’s strand, Toonattik, which airs on ITV1 and CITV. …