World Screen

LONDON, September 29: Sony Pictures Television International (SPTI) has acquired the Asian format rights to five game shows from 12 Yard Productions. The deal includes Beg, Borrow or Steal, No Brainer, In It To Win It, Eggheads and Dirty Money. …

BARCELONA, September 29: Neptuno Films is teaming with Portal Latino, a subsidiary of Sociedad Digital de Autores y Editores (SDAE), for a new IPTV kids’ channel in Spain named El Gato Feliz (Happy Cat). The channel launched yesterday, reaching Orange …

SYDNEY, September 29: Film Australia has made a selection of clips from its archives available on Google Video. The organization currently provides over 950 digitized clips for preview purposes through its online stock-shot catalogue, and has an ongoing program to …

LONDON, September 29: Content from the National Geographic Channel is being made available to subscribers of 3’s mobile TV service in the U.K. Programming, including Seconds from Disaster and Air Crash Investigation, will be provided in two-hour video loops, supplemented …

TORONTO, September 29: Jane Root, the executive VP and general manager of Discovery Channel in the U.S., will be one of the keynote speakers at the World Congress of Science and Factual Producers (WCSFP), set for November 11 to 14 …

NEW YORK, September 29: For the first time ever, MTV will air the season finale of one of its series—Two-A-Days—exclusively on MTV.com. The show, from MTV’s News & Docs division, focuses on a high school football team. It has already …

AMSTERDAM, September 29: Van den Ende & Deitmers Crossmedia Fund, the venture capital fund set up by Joop van den Ende and Hubert Deitmers, has acquired a 30-percent interest in Fruitlounge Media, a developer of interactive television formats. Fruitlounge Media …

STOCKHOLM, September 29: Modern Times Group’s Viasat Broadcasting is working with Danish broadband network operator Dansk Bredband to distribute its channels over IPTV. The move follows the successful launch of similar IPTV offerings in Sweden and Norway in 2004 and …

PARIS, September 29: A variety of Twentieth Century Fox’s current and library films will be offered on-demand to subscribers of CANALPLAY, Groupe CANAL+’s VOD platform. “We continue to pursue distribution opportunities which make it more convenient for consumers to access …

World Screen Weekly, September 28, 2006 President NBC Universal International As the newly appointed president of NBC Universal, one of Peter Smith’s priorities is to grow the company’s businesses outside the U.S. “NBC Universal sees the international landscape valued at …