World Screen

TORONTO, October 9: Treehouse has come on board as the Canadian broadcaster partner on Are We There Yet?, an unscripted travel-adventure series for kids from Sinking Ship Entertainment and Cellar Door Productions, in association with National Geographic Kids Entertainment. The …

NEW YORK, October 9: Classic Media has entered into a long-term joint venture with Premavision/Clokey Productions to manage all rights in connection with the Gumby brand. Under the terms of the agreement, Classic will manage the U.S. and international television, …

CANNES, October 9: Animal Planet International has commissioned Tigress Productions to produce the new 13×30-minute series Going Ape, about the protection of primates. The show is slated to launch in the U.K. in November, followed by the launch in the …

CANNES, October 9: More than C$720 million in deals were secured or facilitated at the Banff Television Festival earlier this year, the event’s organizers said in Cannes today. Festival CEO Robert Montgomery noted, “The results of this latest delegate survey …

CANNES, October 9: Ahead of the first day of MIPCOM, E! Networks announced the sale of more than 800 hours of programming to Asian broadcasters. E! has sold 830 hours of content to broadcasters in China, India, Japan, Korea, Malaysia, …

LONDON, October 9: The British outfit Galleon Entertainment is working with Sony BMG Music Entertainment (U.K.) to develop and launch a multi-platform global entertainment property, Apollo's Pad. Slated for a summer 2007 launch, the property fuses music downloads and animated …

CANNES, October 9: MoonScoop and Classic Media announced in Cannes today that they are teaming to produce and distribute a new Casper the Friendly Ghost animated series, with India’s DQ Entertainment on board as a co-production partner and TF1 as …

CANNES/LONDON, October 9: Fremantle International Distribution has announced a slate of deals on The Janice Dickinson Modeling Agency, a reality series featuring the former supermodel that aired on Oxygen in the U.S. Ahead of its MIPCOM launch this week, the …

LOS ANGELES, October 9: A Los Angeles judge has rejected a challenge to News Corp.’s 2005 purchase of MySpace.com, the popular social networking site, according Fox Interactive Media. The suit had been filed by Intermix Media’s former CEO Brad Greenspan. …

NEW YORK, October 9: Sundance Channel in the U.S. has picked up the acclaimed Australian series John Safran vs. God as well as a second season of the U.K.’s Ladette to Lady. Sundance took the exclusive U.S. TV rights to …