World Screen

CANNES: FremantleMedia has a raft of new formats to offer the international market, including Total Blackout, the first title to come out of its creative exchange alliance with Japanese broadcaster Fuji Television Network. FremantleMedia and Fuji announced their creative pact …

From blue-chip specials to long-running series, programming about nature and animals remains popular with viewers and broadcasters. The makers of wildlife documentaries always face challenges—mainly how to come up with new stories and new ways to tell old stories. Sometimes …

ORIGIN: The series was created by Claudia Lloyd, the head of animation and children’s programming at Tiger Aspect Productions. Lloyd’s previous credits include the BAFTA Award-winning Charlie and Lola, Animated Mr. Bean and Comic Relief. Lloyd first fell in love …

ORIGIN: Based on an original idea. DISTRIBUTOR: Cyber Group Studios CREATORS: Pierre Sissmann and Olivier Lelardoux AUTHOR: Pierre Sissmann SCRIPT EDITOR: Theresa Plummer DIRECTOR: Olivier Lelardoux PRODUCERS: Pierre Sissmann and Billy COMMISSIONING BROADCASTERS: Rai 2, Tiji MAIN TV SALES: Rai …

CANNES: FremantleMedia has picked up a 60-percent interest in @radical.media, a transmedia outfit specializing in advertising and branded-entertainment content. The move marks FremantleMedia’s first major move into the branded-entertainment space, as the company looks to diversify its revenue sources. With …

CANNES: NHK/NHK Educational Corporation and Al Jazeera Children’s Channel have secured Germany’s SWR, UR of Sweden and Korea’s EBS as co-producers for Discover Science, which is to air on Astro in Malaysia and Brunei.  The sciencetainment series offers explanations of …

CANNES: Fox International Channels (FIC) has picked up the exclusive rights to Vuguru’s multiplatform thriller The Booth at the End from Fireworks International.  FIC went for the broadcast, mobile and download-to-own rights for all versions of The Booth at the …

LONDON: The drama-doc series Nazi Hunters, which made its global debut at MIPTV 2010, has been sold by Cineflix International Distribution into a number of new territories.  The 8×1-hour HD series has sold to 13 broadcasters. Among those signed up …

SICHUAN/TORONTO: The nextMEDIA/Banff World Television Festival and Sichuan TV Festival have entered into an agreement jointly aimed at developing new-media competition opportunities in China, as well as in the linear TV genres within both festivals.  “China is rapidly growing in …

SYDNEY: Scrawl Studios with the Media Development Authority of Singapore is on board to co-produce SLR Productions’ Guess How Much I Love You: The Adventures of Little Nutbrown Hare. The animated preschool adaptation is based on a picture book. This is the …