World Screen

LOS ANGELES: Engine Entertainment, founded earlier this year by ex-Power executive Chris Philip, has entered into a 50/50 joint venture with Mexico’s Bross Al Cuadrado to produce and distribute Spanish-language programming. The new venture, Engine Latino, will be run out of …

LONDON: RDF Rights has signed a deal with two Italian broadcasters, Rai Yoyo and DeAKids, for the acquisition of 100 episodes of the preschool hit Waybuloo. These sales bring the total number of territories that Waybuloo airs in to 79 …

LOS ANGELES: Ahead of its October 10 launch, The Hub—the Discovery/Hasbro joint-venture kids’ channel—has announced new additions to its programming slate, including the acquisition of BBC Worldwide’s In the Night Garden. “In the Night Garden has enchanted preschoolers and their families across …

TORONTO: E1 Entertainment Canada will be releasing the new family comedy Harriet the Spy: Blog Wars, produced by 9 Story Entertainment, in Canada this fall. The film’s release kicks off the ongoing distribution agreement between E1 and 9 Story. In …

TORONTO: The literacy-based series Super WHY!, produced by Out of the Blue Enterprises in conjunction with DECODE Entertainment, has been commissioned for a second season of 15 fresh episodes by PBS KIDS and Canada’s CBC. The new commission brings the …

MONTE CARLO/LONDON: Universal Networks International has come on board as a partner on E1 Entertainment’s new 13×1-hour police procedural Shattered. Universal Networks International will handle exclusive pay-TV broadcast rights internationally, with the series to air on Universal Channel and 13th Street …

BURBANK: A second season of Kick Buttowski: Suburban Daredevil, Disney XD’s number one series, has been ordered for a spring 2011 launch. Kick Buttowski, which had a record-setting launch in February, is Disney XD’s top series in total viewers and …

TORONTO: CTV is selling the specialty lifestyle network travel + escape to GlassBOX Television for an undisclosed sum. GlassBOX is awaiting regulatory approval from CRTC for the acquisition of the Category 1 travel and leisure. Raja Khanna, the company’s co-CEO, said the …

TORONTO: Breakthrough Film and Television and Buffalo Gal Pictures are to produce 13 new half-hour episodes of the comedy series Less Than Kind for a third season for HBO Canada. Production on the new season is slated for later this …

LONDON/MOSCOW: The science-fiction channel AXN SCI-FI is now available in more than 3 million households across Russia and the countries of CIS, with Sony Pictures Television (SPT) having notched up a slew of carriage agreements since the network’s December 2007 …