World Screen

CANNES: The newly rebranded Cineflix Rights has lined up a broad portfolio of new and returning shows to exhibit at its bigger booth at MIPCOM. "The name change emphasizes how we have been stepping up the company’s growth by exploiting …

LOS ANGELES: Rive Gauche Television has licensed 100 hours of programming to Foxtel and Seven Network in Australia. The two Rive Gauche series sold are Operation Repo and Dog Whisperer. Operation Repo is about the world of car repossession and …

CANNES: Broadway Video Digital Distribution will be in Cannes this week introducing international broadcasters to a catalogue of U.S. soap operas, including As the World Turns and Guiding Light. Earlier this year, Broadway Video Digital Distribution scored the international distribution …

LONDON: CBeebies has ordered the new 3D CGI animated preschool series Dinopaws from Impossible Kids, the children’s division of Impossible Pictures and Kindle Entertainment. Dinopaws follows three young dinosaurs—Gwen, Tony and Les—on a mission to discover something new every day …

DALLAS: The number of U.S. consumers planning to purchase a smart TV has nearly doubled in less than a year, according to new research from Parks Associates.  The report, Consumer Decision Process: Summer Update, finds that 10 percent of broadband …

BURBANK: Warner Bros. International Television Production has secured the rights to distribute the new NorthSouth Productions format Impractical Jokers, available at MIPCOM. Beginning in December, the half-hour series will air on truTV in the U.S. It features four friends—Sal, Murr, …

MIAMI: The series Behind Every Woman (Las Aparicio) and Beauties and The Boss, distributed by Telemundo Internacional, have debuted in Canada on TLN. Behind Every Woman premiered Monday on TLN and has already found success in Mexico, Venezuela, Ecuador and …

NEW YORK: Kandi Burruss of The Real Housewives of Atlanta is getting her own special on Bravo, The Kandi Factory, which follows the multi-platinum songwriter as she transforms aspiring musicians into pop stars.  In the special, Burruss will give two protégés …

MUNICH: Your Family Entertainment has entered into a distribution relationship covering 24 European countries with Emba Media Management International (EMMI), the Cyprus-based firm that acquired the rights to the BKN International catalogue of animated programming. BKN filed for insolvency in …

LONDON: Two new agreements have been signed by ALL3MEDIA International for the ITV2 drama The Only Way is Essex, including an inflight deal.  The show, also known as Towie, was acquired by YES in Israel, and has already been a …