TVE


News brief: TVE gets Legally High

Spanish pubcaster TVE has acquired UK documentary Legally High. The doc, which comes from filmmaker Dan Reed of Amos Films, first broadcast on Channel 4 in the UK in August. It looks at the growing number of deaths from legal drugs in the UK. Distributor Scorpion TV will be selling the show at MIPCOM, along […]

BBC nets Japan’s Giant Squid film

The BBC has acquired one-off documentary film Legends of the Deep: Giant Squid from its Japanese public broadcast counterpart NHK. The film will go out on the BBC Two channel as part of the Natural World strand this week. The BBC acquired it from NHK Enterprises, the commercial arm of the Japanese broadcaster. The 1x52mins […]

Nottingham Forest sends Sendokai into Saban’s Vortexx

Spanish indie producer Nottingham Forest has sold its animated series Sendokai Champions to Vortexx, the weekly kids programming block on US broadcast network The CW. Vortexx is run by Saban Brands, which as part of the broadcast deal will handle licensing and merchandising rights to Sendokai in North America and Israel. “Our affiliation with Saban […]

Teletoon swings in for George of the Jungle

Canadian children’s broadcaster Teletoon has commissioned another season ofGeorge of the Jungle, the most recent remake of the classic animated comedy. Singapore’s August Media Holdings and Canadian prodco Chocolate Moose Media are working on the second season, which has got the greenlight six years after the remake’s first run. George will deliver in 2014. August’s […]

MIPTV News: First Hand sends docs to US, Europe

Swiss-based documentary sales house First Hand Films has closed deals for its documentaries in the US and with pubcasters across Europe. Non-commercial cable channel Link TV in the US has bought Shadows of Liberty: The Media Monopoly in American Journalism (pictured), which takes a hard-hitting look at the impact of corporate control over media outlets. […]

Turner Lat-Am buys shows from Nottingham Forest

Turner Broadcasting System (TBS) in Latin America has picked up a pair of shows from Spanish distributor Nottingham Forest. TBS has acquired pan-Latin rights to animated series Sendokai Champions and Jokebox. Sendokai Champions is a 26x12mins animated series produced by TVE and Kotoc. In Spain it aired on aired on RTVE’s Clan TV and in […]

Turtle Power

Viacom acquired the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles from The Mirage Group and 4Kids Entertainment in late 2009 for US$60 million and the resulting new TV series debuted on September 29 on Nick in the US with a two-episode double-header. When Ciro Nieli found out Nickelodeon had bought the Turtles he knocked on their door with […]