World Screen

OSLO: The Documentary Channel in the U.S. has bagged The Future of Water, filmed in 25 countries around the world to focus on the management of our fresh-water supply, from Nordic World. The 3×50-minute doc was originally produced by Norwegian …

AUCKLAND/NEW YORK: Mediaworks NZ’s new entertainment channel FOUR (recently rebranded from the music network C4) has reached a deal with Sesame Workshop to air Sesame Street every morning beginning February 7. The New Zealand network will air the show from 6 …

LOS ANGELES: E! Entertainment Television has secured the exclusive rights to all reality series development from Virgin Produced, the production arm of Sir Richard Branson’s Virgin Group. The multi-year first-look development deal gives E! access to Virgin Produced unscripted series. …

SINGAPORE: Mr. Moon, a Singapore-U.K.-Canada co-production distributed by Sparky Animation, Bejuba! Entertainment and Small Screen Distribution, has shored up a slot on ABC in Australia. The Australian broadcaster will debut the 52×11-minute preschool animation this year. The show has already launched on …

LONDON/MIAMI: ITV Studios Global Entertainment has secured a slew of deals with broadcasters in Latin America, with more than 170 hours of programming across multiple genres set to air throughout the region. Brazil’s Globosat opted for a package that included …

MIAMI: The Nickelodeon Latin America original telenovela Grachi has scored slots on a number of broadcasters across the region courtesy of Comarex. The 75×1-hour show, penned by Mariela Romero (Isa TKM), focuses on a girl who comes to grips with …

BARCELONA: Spain’s Imira Entertainment has taken on representation for a portfolio of youth programming from Shaftesbury for Latin America. The catalogue includes live-action series such as Baxter, which Imira represents for free TV in Latin America, as well as Conner …

NEW YORK: HBO has picked up all U.S. rights, covering broadcast, video and theatrical, for Project Nim, a documentary from the filmmaking team behind the Oscar-winning story Man on Wire. Project Nim is the opening night film of the 2011 …

BURBANK: The series finale of Hannah Montana delivered 6.2 million total viewers for Disney Channel, outperforming its record-setting fourth-season average by 9 percent. The finale was cable’s number one telecast in the hour among kids 6 to 11 and tweens …

LONDON: In the wake of Erik Huggers’ resignation as director of Future Media & Technology at the BBC, the public broadcaster is reorganizing the division, separating it into two distinct areas. Huggers is leaving the BBC at the end of February …