World Screen

PASADENA, July 12: At the Television Critics Association press tour, E! Networks announced several new titles for the E! and Style networks, including a claymation series about Hollywood and a venture with pop star Beyoncé Knowles. The programming and marketing …

SAN DIEGO, July 12: Turner Network Television (TNT) is teaming with the Internet television broadcasting company Veoh Networks to offer up a slate of online content based on the new horror series Nightmares & Dreamscapes: From The Stories of Stephen …

SEOUL/HONG KONG, July 12: Turner Broadcasting System (TBS) is working with the South Korean media company JoongAng Ilbo (JAI) to launch Cartoon Network Korea later this year featuring a mix of Korean and international animation. In compliance with Korean broadcast …

LOS ANGELES, July 12: Two HBO original series—The Wire and Russell Simmons’ Def Comedy Jam, which is returning after a ten-year break—will premiere on HBO On Demand six days prior to their debuts on the main HBO channel. Beginning September …

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 …