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Global Screen shops wartime series to b’casters

A raft of international broadcasters have acquired Naked Among Wolves, the German TV movie is an adaptation of the German author Bruno Apitz novel. Spanish pubcaster TVE has snagged the show, which follows a concentration camp prisoner’s attempts to hide a young Jewish boy. In Italy, the country’s largest commercial TV group, Mediaset has acquired […]

Turtles, Dora spread in Lat Am, Europe

Viacom International Media Networks properties Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles and Dora the Explorer: Into the City have sold to broadcasters around the world. Turtles seasons one and two have gone to China’s TianJinShi Team Shine Culture Communication Co. and will launch on Kaku Kids for Beijing Television and Jiajia Cartoon Channel with Guangdong Jia Jia […]

Three to watch from Spain

A trio of Spanish primetime dramas are set to make international headlines. Spain’s TV advertising slump has hit local fiction budgets hard, but with US imports banished from the primetime schedules of the main broadcasters, local drama continues to connect strongly with audiences. In the cutthroat world of Spanish free TV primetime, three new series […]

VIMN scores Americas, Euro sales

Viacom International Media Networks has closed a batch of deals in North and Latin America and Europe. In Spain, pubcaster TVE has bought Monsters vs Aliens, while Atresmedia acquired Sanjay & Craig (pictured) for its Neox Kidz block. In France, French broadcaster Lagardère also bought Monsters vs Aliens, while France Televisions acquired season two of […]

News brief: Broadcasters undertake Gaumont’s Quest

A number of pay and free TV channels have acquired Gaumont Animation’s 26x30mins action toon Lanfeust Quest. Among the deals, the series will debut in Spain on pay net Disney Channel before getting a second window on free-to-air broadcaster TVE. ABC3 in Australia, Disney Channel in German-speaking Europe and Turkey and Disney XD in the […]

News brief: Sendokai Champions wins for Cartoon Network

New episodes of animated toon series Sendokai Champions are to run on Cartoon Network across 50 territories in Latin America. Under terms of an agreement with Spain-based distributor Nottingham Forest, the episodes will run as part of the Copa Toon programming month on the Turner Broadcasting System-owned channels today. The show first broadcast on Cartoon […]

Euro pubcasters stock up on Earth Touch docs

Wildlife producer and distributor Earth Touch has sold a raft of its docs to public broadcast channels in Europe. In Spain TVE has acquired five-part series A Year in the Wild, three-parter Speed Kills 1 and one-off Ragged Tooth. France 5 has also picked up Speed Kills 1 as well as one-offs Cheetahs of the […]

News brief: Teenage Fairytale Dropouts finds homes

Animated pre-teen series Teenage Fairytale Dropouts has sold to five channels around the world. Distributor 9 Story Entertainment has sold the show to HBO Asia, TVE in Spain, Sun Network in India, Noga in Israel and Orlando Kids in Croatia. TFD already broadcasts in Australia on Seven Network in Australia. The show was one of […]

News brief: TVE purchases Java docs

Spanish public broadcaster TVE is among buyers of current affairs and documentary programming from France’s Java Films. TVE has bought a new doc from current affairs strand Underhand Tactics, a 52-mins show titled The Untaxables from Premieres Lignes about how major companies avoid paying corporation tax, plus Tabloids! Anything For a Scoop and Tracked Down: […]

News brief: Bat Pat takes off with RAI, TVE

European pubcasters RAI and TVE have come on board Spanish-Italian-Malaysian coproduction Bat Pat. Following investment from the GD Animation Fund, Italy’s RAI and Spain’s TVE, the 52x11mins kids series is going into production. Spain’s Imira Entertainment is coproducing the show with Italy’s Atlantyca Entertainment and Malaysia’s Inspidea. The series is based on a book series […]