World Screen

LONDON: CITV has commissioned The Cool Stuff Collective, a new magazine review show for 7- to 12-year-olds, from Archie Productions. The Cool Stuff Collective will road test anything that kids might want to own, consume, watch, download or play. A total …

NORWALK: CABLEready has reached an exclusive pay-TV licensing agreement for its new original series Intersections with Viasat, which will launch the show in Scandinavia and Eastern Europe. The territories covered by CABLEready’s agreement with Viasat include Denmark, Norway, Sweden, Finland, …

TORONTO: Kim Cattrall is back on board as the voice of Dee for the second season of Breakthrough Films & Television’s Producing Parker, which will also feature the voice talents of Jason Priestley, Catherine O’Hara and Mark McKinney. Production on …

TORONTO: This September, VIVA adds the new original series Murder She Solved to its lineup, along with the doc series The Devil You Know. Murder She Solved launches on September 11. The hour-long documentary series features female crime solvers who …

TEL-AVIV: Dori Media Group has said it expects to generate revenues of some $45 million over three years through the extension of its agreement with Israeli cable network HOT. The company’s subsidiary Dori Media Spike signed a three-year extension agreement …

MIAMI: Telemundo has signed a multi-year output deal to serve as the exclusive broadcaster of Caracol Television’s current and future library for the U.S. market. Some of Caracol’s telenovelas that have aired in the U.S. include hits such as Pedro …

OAKBROOK TERRACE: The DVD rental kiosk provider Redbox has started rolling out Blu-ray titles, including The Book of Eli, Bounty Hunter and Brooklyn’s Finest. Redbox has started making Blu-ray rentals available at some 13,300 kiosks nationwide. The company expects the …

LOS ANGELES: Ellen DeGeneres has announced that she will not return as a judge on the next season of American Idol, after just one run on the hit show. DeGeneres served as a judge during the ninth season of Idol, …

TOKYO: Sony Corporation has returned to profit in its first fiscal quarter, with company-wide sales up by 3.8 percent to 1.6 trillion yen ($18.47 billion). The Electronics giant rebounded from last year’s quarterly loss of 37.1 billion yen ($428 million) …

BURBANK: The Walt Disney Company has confirmed the sale of Miramax Films, which has a movie library that includes hits such as Chicago and No Country for Old Men, to Filmyard Holdings for more than $660 million. Partners in Filmyard …