World Screen

LONDON: Optomen International has scored sales for more than 60 hours of Optomen and One Potato Two Potato programming to English-speaking territories following MIPCOM. The fifth season of Great British Menu was sold to Food Network in the U.K. The …

NEW YORK/ARLINGTON: Spike TV and the Consumer Electronics Association (CEA) have formed an exclusive partnership with plans to telecast the 2012 International CES, the world’s largest consumer technology tradeshow running from January 10 to 13, 2012, in Las Vegas. Spike …

COLOGNE/CANNES: united docs, part of German United Distributors, scored a range of sales internationally at MIPCOM, including selling comprehensive history packages to France, Austria, Sweden, Italy, Spain and the Middle East. Documentaries sold include 100 Years of Hollywood: The Carl …

LOS ANGELES: FX and Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment have unveiled the first-ever second-screen interactive shopping app, SOA Gear, delivering a themed entertainment experience around the show Sons of Anarchy. The app launches November 1. The digital extension will include …

AMSTERDAM: Eric van Stade has exited his post as the CEO of SBS Broadcasting due to a "difference of opinion" as to how the company should move forward, with Georgette Schlick taking over the role. Schlick becomes the first female …

MONTREAL: Radio-Canada and France Télévisions Distribution have entered into a cross-distribution agreement, in an effort to increase the worldwide exposure of their programming. France Télévisions Distribution (FTD) will distribute and exploit Radio-Canada’s catalogue of educational programs, documentaries and news reports …

ISMANING: The German broadcaster SPORT1 has secured a rights package from Dorna Sports for MotoGP racing coverage through 2014. The motorcycle racing series will also be available in Austria and Switzerland on the pay-TV channel SPORT1+. With the current season, SPORT1 …

HONG KONG: Sony Pictures Television (SPT) has sold its ’60s-set period drama Pan Am to STAR in India and TVNZ in New Zealand. The show will launch in India on STAR in early 2012, followed by a premiere in New …

STOCKHOLM: Modern Times Group (MTG) has taken on the exclusive distribution rights for the National Hockey League (NHL) in Sweden, Norway, Denmark and Finland. The deal with Medge Consulting gives MTG the exclusive rights for live coverage on free and …

LOS ANGELES: ¡Q’Viva! The Chosen, the new Latin-focused talent show from Simon Fuller’s XIX Entertainment, Jennifer Lopez, Marc Anthony and Jamie King, has been picked up by Univision for the U.S. market, along with deals in Mexico and Colombia. The show …