World Screen

LONDON: Endemol and MediaCorp are bringing the hit game show The Money Drop to Singapore, with a local version to launch in prime time on Channel 5 this fall. Marking the format’s first commission in Asia, the deal will see …

MIAMI: A study of the media consumption habits of 14- to 34-year-old Latinos, co-sponsored by Tr3s: MTV, Música y Más, has found that some 50 percent want more bilingual/bicultural programming and more than 30 percent seek out mainstream English-language programming. …

NEW YORK: The American Greetings Properties’ brands Strawberry Shortcake, Care Bears and Twisted Whiskers are set for broadcast on TVWorks’ free-TV channel FOUR in New Zealand. Season one of Strawberry Shortcake‘s Berry Bitty Adventures along with the brand’s CGI film …

WEST HOLLYWOOD: Shankly International Distribution has taken on the worldwide TV rights to the library of 3D programs from PassmoreLab. The PassmoreLab catalogue includes 3D films such as Night of the Living Dead and Plan 9 from Outer Space, along …

SYDNEY: The animated film Santa’s Apprentice, a co-production between Gaumont-Alphanim and Avrill Stark Entertainment, is headed to theaters in Australia in the second half of 2011. The Christmas-themed movie was released last year in France, selling more than 100,000 tickets …

LONDON: Zodiak Rights has clinched presales for the new BBC Two documentary 17 Days, which tells the story of the Chilean miners who were trapped underground, with MSNBC and the Spanish-language Telemundo. The doc will debut in the U.K. on BBC …

TORONTO: An agreement has been signed between CCI Entertainment and The Juno Company to create a TV series based on the Juno property, featuring the puppet characters of Juno Baby and Juno Jr. Juno Baby and Juno Jr. bring music-education …

NEW YORK: The New York Television Festival (NYTVF) has launched a new development initiative focused on pitching, with Sundance Channel, MSN and SevenOne International signed on as inaugural pitch partners. The three companies are signed up to guarantee a development …

NEW YORK: Life’s Too Short, a new comedy from The Office co-creators Ricky Gervais and Stephen Merchant, is currently in production for a debut on BBC Two later this year and on HBO in 2012. The seven-episode series is being done …

THE HAGUE: Dutch cable providers UPC and Ziggo will not have to open up their networks to rival platforms, the Commission of the Dutch Independent Post and Telecommunications Authority (OPTA) has said, thanks to the rapid pace of digitization in the …