World Screen

LONDON, July 12: BSkyB has picked up the mobile content rights to Barclays Premiership football in a three-year deal that kicks off in August 2007. Sky won the rights in a bid with News Group Newspapers, publishers of The Sun …

PITTSBURGH, July 12: FOX Sports and Major League Baseball have inked a seven-year deal that keeps the World Series and All-Star Game exclusively on the FOX network through 2013. FOX Sports’ new agreement with MLB gives the network the rights …

SANTA MONICA, July 12: Lionsgate has acquired the independent television distributor Debmar-Mercury, which owns the U.S. distribution rights to South Park and The Dead Zone, among others. The deal, for an undisclosed sum, grants Lionsgate entry into the U.S. television …

TORONTO, July 12: CTV parent company Bell Globemedia (BGM) has made an offer to acquire CHUM Limited for C$1.7 billion ($1.5 billion) with the full backing of CHUM’s controlling shareholders and board of directors. While the estate of Allan Walters …

TV Kids Weekly, July 11, 2006 NAME: Yvon of the Yukon ORIGIN: The series is based on an original idea. CREATORS: Ian James Corlett and Studio B Productions. TV SHOW: Studio B has produced three seasons of this animated series …

TORONTO/LONDON, July 11: DECODE Entertainment has received a commission from Canada’s YTV for the new animated action comedy Urban Vermin as well as a second season order on Planet Sketch from Teletoon Canada and CiTV. The 26×22-minute Urban Vermin stars …

LONDON, July 11: Fremantle International Distribution (FID) notched up a slate of Central and Eastern European deals at DISCOP last month on key titles such as the six-part Prehistoric Park. The factual series Prehistoric Park from Impossible Pictures sold to …

SEATTLE, July 11: A collection of Superman cartoons produced in the 1940s will be made available for free at ReelTimeTV.com, with parent company ReelTime Rentals offering to make a donation to the Christopher Reeve Foundation (CRF) every time the series …

LOS ANGELES, July 11: Playboy’s Alta Loma Entertainment has been commissioned by the cable channel Players Network to produce Playboy’s Women of Poker, a poker competition with the winner possibly scoring a spread in Playboy Magazine. Five regional qualifying Texas …

LOS ANGELES, July 11: The Grupo Televisa and Univision Communications joint venture TuTv is set to begin offering to cable and satellite platforms in the U.S. a video on demand package delivering 100 Spanish-language titles. TVN Entertainment has been appointed …