World Screen

MANCHESTER, July 10: Cosgrove Hall Films has made its first foray into owning its own content, taking a “significant share” in an animated series from Korean creators Imagestone and London-based Village Productions that has been acquired for broadcast by the …

LOS ANGELES/CHICAGO, July 10: Twentieth Television has cleared Seth MacFarlane’s hit animated sitcom Family Guy on the Tribune Broadcasting station group for a fall 2007 launch in off-net syndication. The series about the dysfunctional Griffin family (father Peter, wife Lois, …

LONDON, July 10: According to the British trade body Pact, a pre-9 p.m. ban on junk food advertising could wipe out all investment in original kids’ programming at ITV, Five and Channel 4. Under Pact’s medium impact forecast, investment would …

PALISADES PARK, July 10: Alfred Haber Distribution (AHDI) has picked up the international distribution rights to the Spike TV Scream Awards, honoring the best in the horror, science-fiction and fantasy genres. AHDI’s deal with the MTV Networks-owned male-skewing Spike TV …

LAS VEGAS, July 10: Grizzly Adams Productions is teaming with Flynn-Daines Productions to produce a minimum of 20 family drama films over the next five years. The first four so-called “highly emotional ‘Capra-esque’ type dramatic films” will be released under …

MUNICH, July 10: SevenOne International has licensed its technology/science magazine series Galileo into China with a deal with state broadcaster CCTV. The deal on Galileo follows CCTV’s pickup of the Sat.1 quiz show Clever! Yan He, sales manager at the …

LONDON/TORONTO, July 10: The Canadian outfit Insight Production has reached a deal with Fremantle International Distribution to produce a local version of Bravo’s hit fashion talent competition Project Runway, which kicks off its third season in the U.S. this week. …

KUALA LUMPUR, July 10: The Asia-Pacific Broadcasting Union (ABU), and UNDP Regional HIV and Development Programme for Asia have issued grants of up to $5,000 each to 20 producers to develop documentaries, shorts and PSAs on HIV/AIDS. The recipients include …

HAMPSHIRE, July 10: Juniper Research projects that the mobile TV market will hit revenues of $11.7 billion by 2010, led by Japan and the U.S. Japan’s broadcast mobile TV revenues will reach $2.9 billion by 2010, according to the Juniper …

ROME, July 10: An Italian judge has ordered former Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi to stand trial over alleged fraud at Mediaset. According to wire reports, the trial follows a four-year investigation into claims of embezzlement, false accounting, tax fraud and …