World Screen

NEW YORK: Notional and Electus have signed a deal with TV Asahi Corporation and Yoshimoto Kogyo Corporation to produce and distribute the studio-based game show Unbeatable. Notional’s creative team will work with the TV Asahi and Yoshimoto Kogyo creative teams …

MIAMI: Globo TV International has entered into a partnership with Tony Fantozzi and Dick Robertson to act as consultants, contributing to the company’s new strategy for the U.S. and Canada. Fantozzi and Robertson will explore new co-production deals on English-speaking …

BARCELONA: Cartoon Network Latin America has acquired Timoon Animation’s Monk in a deal with Imira Entertainment, which is also representing the free-TV rights to Breakthrough Entertainment’s Dino Dan in the region. Breakthrough’s hit live-action series recently sold to Discovery Kids in …

VANCOUVER: Disney XD in the U.S. has licensed all 52 episodes of Storm Hawks from Nerd Corps Entertainment for launch this year. The comedy/adventure series, which follows the high-flying adventures of five teens on flying transforming motorcycles, has rolled out to …

WASHINGTON, D.C.: Next month, National Geographic Channel in the U.S. will re-broadcast the acclaimed film Restrepo, which today picked up an Academy Award nomination for best documentary feature alongside, among others, Exit Through the Gift Shop and Gasland. Restrepo, the …

MAINZ: ZDF Enterprises is on board as a co-producer on adaptations of the "Jack Taylor” crime novels by Irish author Ken Bruen, and will also represent the films in continental Europe. The series of adaptations kicks off with The Magdalen Martyrs …

NEW YORK: On the heels of huge ratings for the third season rollout of Jersey Shore, the MTV show has been renewed for a fourth season that will take the cast to Italy. Production begins in the spring for season four, MTV said …

MILAN: Mediaset has inked deals with BBC Worldwide Channels and Discovery Communications Europe for new pay-TV networks that will be carried on Mediaset Premium beginning March 1. BBC Knowledge will offer a mix of science, technology, history, natural history and …

TOKYO: Masayuki Matsumoto has officially assumed his post as president of Japanese public broadcaster NHK, succeeding Shigeo Fukuchi, who has ended his three-year term. Matsumoto joins NHK after many years with the Japan Railway Company, which he first joined in …

NORWALK/MIAMI: CABLEready is entering the scripted programming arena for the first time, offering up two sitcoms—including one with Married with Children’s David Faustino—at NATPE this week. The two original comedies are being produced by Dan Garcia Productions. Announcing the expansion for …