World Screen

REDMOND: The Hulu Plus service will be added to the Nintendo 3DS and Wii systems by the end of the year. With Hulu Plus, Wii and Nintendo 3DS owners can instantly stream thousands of episodes of hit TV shows. Offerings include the …

EL SEGUNDO: DirecTV subscribers are at risk of losing Fox Networks stations such as FX and National Geographic Channel on November 1 unless a new carriage fee agreement can be reached. According to DirecTV, Fox Networks is seeing a 40-percent …

NEW YORK: According to Nielsen’s Q2 Cross-Platform Report, nearly half of Americans now watch video online, while 97 percent choose traditional TV, which saw a viewing increase of 2 hours and 43 minutes per month. While 48 percent of Americans …

CHICAGO: A new STRATA quarterly survey has revealed that while local TV remains the medium of choice for advertising (35 percent), digital is behind it by just a 1-percent margin. Advertising showed its resiliency in the third quarter, with 52 percent …

LONDON: Children’s indie Darrall Macqueen has been commissioned by CBeebies to produce a second season of the preschool series Baby Jake. Production has begun on 26 new episodes of the series, which first launched in July 2011 on CBeebies and …

LONDON: Jon Mountague has been named DLT Entertainment’s executive editor in a newly created position. Mountague will report to Don Taffner Jr., the president of DLT. He is tasked with growing DLT’s production interests out of London in a new …

MADRID: The Spanish TV series The Boat (El Barco) from Globomedia production for Antena 3 has been sold by Imagina International to channels in Latin America and Eastern Europe. The series will be available in 23 countries in the coming …

LOS ANGELES/LONDON/TORONTO: Entertainment One (eOne) has sold a range of unscripted programs to Discovery Networks across multiple territories, including Italy, Spain, the Middle East, Africa and Central and Eastern Europe. Discovery Networks International picked up the television rights to titles …

LONDON: Chello Zone’s Horror Channel in Italy has secured a selection of survival films from Cinemavault, featuring, among others, Billy Zane, Malcolm McDowell and Noel Gugliemi. The films are set to premiere in 2012 on the Horror Channel, which launched …

HÖHENKIRCHEN/MUNICH: Zodiak Kids has made m4e a new licensee for the merchandising rights in German-speaking territories for the preschool series Little Princess. The merchandising of the 65-episode 11-minute series in Benelux is handled by m4e’s subsidiary Telescreen. The current German …