Top Stories

LONDON/LOS ANGELES, August 1: ITV, through its U.S.-based production arm, Granada America, has acquired a 10-percent interest in Electric Farm Entertainment, the digital studio founded by Stan Rogow, Brent Friedman and Jeff Sagansky. Electric Farm is at work on a …

NEW YORK, August 1: ABI Research has concluded that there is “widespread reluctance” on the part of consumers to purchase a Blu-ray DVD player in the near future. The research firm surveyed 1,000 respondents and found that more than half …

HONG KONG, August 1: Beijing Netmovie has inked a deal to distribute 662 Shaw Brothers films and 170 hours of original TV dramas from Celestial Pictures through a slew of Internet cafés in China. Netmovie has licensed the rights to …

DUBAI/BOGOTÁ,  August 1: KIT digital has secured a deal with e-nnovva, the recently created new-media division of RCN, to provide proprietary technology to host live streaming, VOD and live audio content in both long and short formats for the Colombian …

HARRINGTON PARK, August 1: Janson Media has released the four-hour eco-adventure series Water’s Journey to worldwide television, VOD, new media and DVD/video markets. Water’s Journey, filmed in high definition, follows a team of scientists and adventurers as they explore an …

SILVER SPRING, August 1: Discovery Health will next month premiere a four-part documentary series that combines high-tech graphics with live-action footage to explore how humans think, move and age. Body in Numbers premieres September 3, airing Wednesday nights at 9 …

SINGAPORE, August 1: Adrenaline, housing professionally produced and user-generated youth-sports programming, has broken new ground as the first content initiative in Singapore developed for multiplatform delivery. Produced by Content Craft, Adrenaline was started with support from the Media Development Authority …

LONDON, August 1: Playhouse Disney in the U.K. has acquired the new British preschool animation series Claude, which is scheduled to air later this year. The 52 ten-minute episodes of Claude are based on David Wojtowycz’s award-winning illustrated books and …

NEW YORK, August 1: Diego’s Moonlight Rescue, an hour-long prime-time TV movie based on the hit preschool series Go, Diego, Go!, will be simulcast on Nickelodeon and its sister network Noggin on August 18 at 8 p.m. Beginning August 11, …

MADRID, August 1: Chello Multicanal, the Spain-based business unit of Chellomedia, is making its Portuguese kids’ channel, Canal Panda, available in Angola and Mozambique on MultiChoice Africa. Targeted at children aged 2 to 12, Canal Panda features a mix of …