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CableU now features information on over 140 cable networks. Here are our latest additions: Animania HD - BET J - CNN Headline News - Current TV - EquatorHD - Family RoomHD - FilmFestHD - Gallery HD - GamePlayHD - Kung FuHD - Lifetime Movie Channel - MonstersHD - RaveHD - RushHD - Toon Disney - TreasureHD - UltraHD - Universal HD - V-Me - Veria TV - World CinemaHD - World SportHD Get to know cable networks better and grow your business with CableU . What are U waiting for? www.CableU.tv - Know Networks Better. Pitch Smarter. Cynopsis: International 11/27/07 Good morning. It's Tuesday, November 27, 2007, and this is your first early morning International & Multicultural briefing. INTERNATIONAL MARKET: Discovery Channel Canada and Japanese broadcaster NHK's distribution unit, Media International Corporation signed a 3-year, exclusive first look licensing agreement for the latter's English-language high-def programming catalog. In the first year, the deal covers 20 programming hours followed by an increase to 25 hours for year 2 and 3. Discovery Channel Canada inked a co-production and content deal with NHK last year. The U.K.'s BT Vision is in a deal with Paramount Pictures Digital Entertainment to offer close to 150 Paramount-distributed movies on its online video storefront, BT Vision Download Store. Both library and current titles are included. MTV Germany snapped up over 60 hours of entertainment programming from 51 Minds Productions through Target Entertainment. The deal includes Flavor of Love (season 3), Charm School: Flavor of Love Girls, Rock of Love, and I Love New York 2 in addition to the second run of Rabbit Films' The Dudesons. Other deals are listed below …
NBC Universal is taking its Sci Fi and Universal channels to a Polish level. The company will launch localized versions on ITI's n digital DTH platform, reaching 200,000 households, according to THR. Shaftesbury Sales Company signed a multi-territory deal with Super RTL for the first two seasons of the live-action kids' comedy series, Life with Derek. The network took the free-TV rights in Germany and German-speaking Europe for the first twenty-six 30-minute episodes for a December 1 premiere. CaribeVision Network is co-producing The Knee Diaries, a new television series with Dr. Alimorad Farshchian, best know as Michael Jackson's arthritis physician and celeb doctor. The weekly, news magazine format series about osteoarthritis and sports injuries will debut on December 10. SevenOne International has sold Germany's Sat.1 telenovela That's Life, the German version of Ugly Betty, to Ukrainian TV station ICTV. Starting today, the show will air Tuesday through Friday afternoon under the title Kokhannia v Berlini (Love in Berlin). As part of Singapore's Upside Down Concepts television production house and LIC Australia new co-production agreement, the two will work over the next year on 20 hours of documentaries with the help of LIC's co-production partner, Germany's Kick Films of Munich. The first show to launch on the international market will be The Desert Vet. The U.K.'s Entertainment Rights Plc entered several broadcast deals for the K2-5-targeted Toopy & Binoo with Rai Sat (Italy), ETV (Estonia), Cartoon Network (Latin America), Canal J (France), Al Jazeera (Middle East), EBS (South Korea), NRK (Norway), and Media Corp (Singapore). A number of other key territories are also in negotiation. Canada's Treehouse and Telequebec broadcasters are developing the series' second run with the U.S.' PBS for a Spring 2008 delivery. Austrian broadcaster Osterreichischer Rundfunk inked a 5-year license deal with EM.Entertainment for the exclusive free-TV rights within Austria for the K6-11-targeted, 30-minute series, 26-episode Staines Down Drains (Fleckgeflutscht) and 26-episode F.T.P.D.Fairytale Police Department (F.T.P.D.Die Marchenpolizei). Top 10 United Kingdom Box Office Estimates- November 16-22, 2007 American Gangster (Universal Pictures) $7.96 million - opening wk Beowulf (Warner Bros.) $6.27 million - opening wk Stardust (Paramount) $2.41 million - 5 wk total $26.57m Ratatouille (Walt Disney Studios Intl) $2.27 million - 6 wk total $47.59m Good Luck Chuck (Lions Gate UK Ltd) $2.18 million - 2 wk total $5.96m Elizabeth: The Golden Age (Universal Pictures) $1.49 million - 3 wk total $9m 30 Days of Night (Icon Film Dist.) $1.21 million - 3 wk total $8.14m Lions for Lambs (20th Century Fox) $746,237 - 2 wk total $2.79m Om Shanti Om (Eros International Ltd) $687,619 - 2 wk total $2.17m Brick Lane (Optimum Rel.) $643,393 - opening wk *Source: Nielsen EDI and Variety HISPANIC MARKET: Telemundo will premiere its late night show, Mas Vale Tarde con Alex Cambert (Better Late with Alex Cambert), on November 29 at 1130p with the show making its first appearance online on Yahoo!Telemundo ( http://tv.telemundo.yahoo.com/masvaletarde/ ) the day prior to its television premiere on November 28 with major sponsor Verizon Wireless. Spanish Broadcasting System and MEGA TV will debut the Brazilian soap opera, Alma Gemela on December 3. Airing weekdays at 6p on MEGA TV Channel 22, the series is set in the 1940s. It was originally broadcast on Brasil's TV Globo. Sorpresa network, the Spanish-language kid's network that is part of Juniper Content Corporation, plans to re-brand its TV network and digital community in early 2008. With the new look comes a new tag line, El Mundo que Imaginas, or in English, The World You Imagine. According to the network's research with K6-11, who report watching Spanish-language TV with their families, the new messaging reflects kid's desire to be connected to their world, while also supporting their parents' desire for their kids to maintain Spanish language skills. The re-brand will coincide with Sorpresa's new programming effort, and is being helmed by the creative agency Bonsai3. GAY/LESBIAN MARKET: Comcast announced the launch of here! as a SVOD service in Portland and Eugene, Oregon. The network will be available to Comcast customers for a $7.99monthly subscription fee. EXECUTIVE MOVES: MTV Networks Argentina named Axel Escudero as Director/Corporate Communications for MTV Networks Latin America (MTVNLA) as part of its regionalization process for its operations. Based in Buenos Aires, he will report to Miami-based Linda Alexander, MTV Networks Latin America's SVP/Corporate Communications and Public Affairs. Axel will manage MTVNLA's pan regional and Argentina-based media relations and internal and external communications for Argentina. This will include communications strategies across the three brands, MTV, VH1, and Nickelodeon/Nick @ Nite. Axel was previously Director/Media Relations for Cerveceria y Malteria Quilmes. Gary Howsam has voluntarily tendered his resignation as CEO and Director of Peace Arch Entertainment Group Inc. As previously announced, he has been on administrative leave from the company since November 6, 2007. Mara Di Pasquale, Peace Arch's CFO has also resigned as a director of the company. Her resignation from the Board was prompted by the appointment of Jeff Sagansky as Interim CEO since November 6 and his subsequent end of his position as an independent director in accordance of AMEX and OSC guidelines. Mara will continue in her CFO role. Paul Johnson has been named as Account Manager at National Geographic Digital Motion's London office. He and Dan Pierce will together be responsible for Digital Motion's advertising, entertainment, and corporate accounts. In addition, they will expand the company's client base in the U.K. and Europe.Paul was recently at Extreme Entertainment as Sales Director. Gospel Music Channel named Michele Sinisi as Affiliate Marketing Director West to develop and implement marketing programs and events. She will report to Wendy McCoy, VP/Marketing. Michele was previously Director/Ad Sales and Distribution Marketing at The Tennis Channel. Answer to Yesterday's Trivia Question: "When it comes to emotions, even great heroes can be idiots." and "I would rather be a ghost, drifting by your side...as a condemned soul...than enter heaven without you. Because of your love ... I will never be a lonely spirit." These lines are from what action-packed film? CROUCHING TIGER, HIDDEN DRAGON Kudos to: Dick Cox/Stratford; Tamara Wirz-SpotPlusy Mas/Dallas; Andy Nordvall-The Game/LA Today's Trivia Question: On the original Hollywood Squares, who appeared most frequently in the coveted center square for most of the run? ( with your answer and be sure to include your name, company, city and time zone. Unofficial rules: Only the second four correct answers from each time zone will be mentioned; and once you've been mentioned in any of the Cynopsis editions, you can't be mentioned again that calendar week.) Later -- Ariana Rawls for Cynopsis: International Edition 11.27.07 Cynopsis Int'l Ad Sales: Jason Cesare - 732-718-0629 / Classifieds - Trish Pihonak- 203-926-9878 / Cynopsis website - Video Resumes, Extended Classified Ads, Archives, and the Cynopsis Daily Video CableU - Know Networks Better. Pitch Smarter. Click here Cyn opsis CLASSIFIEDS - For More classifieds, visit the Cynopsis.com classifieds page here JOB OPENING: ADMIN ASST/WE tv/NYC: Support programming execs & mgmt team with all admin needs. Handle phones, schedules, travel, budgets, tape library, etc. Degree & Ent exp pref. res to www.cablevision.jobs ref #4860BR (12/4) JOB OPENING: RESEARCH DIR/Screenvision Cinema, NY: 8-10 yrs; Run sales research, strong know of resch resources, Nielsen exp req, prim resch exp plus, TV bkgnd pref, Mgmt Exp req. Submit resumes: (12/4) JOB OPENING: SALES PLANNER/TV10s/NYC: For Closed Captioning & 10-second commercial sales: Create proposals, mkgds, manage adu, detail oriented. 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To apply go to www.turnerjobs.com req# 90639 (11/28) JOB OPENING: DIGITAL AE/History/A&E/LA: Sell digital advertising solutions to clients/agencies. Dvlp new business. Client service and acct mgmt. 4 yrs in sales -min 2 yrs digital sales. Apply: www.aetn.com/careers.html (11/28) JOB OPENING: VP, PROGRAMMING & DEVELOPMENT/ EGO TV/LA: Scout, produce web and mobile video content for new Gen Y network. Must have strong talent agency relationships. 10+ yrs exper. Resumes to (11/28) JOB OPENING: ON AIR TALENT/Web/NY:Looking for a 30-45 yr old female talent. To host a weekly prgrm on the latest in books, CD's, DVD's. Needs to appear knwldgble & authoritative, ditzy need not apply. Contact: (11/28) JOB OPENING: EXP'D CO-EP SHOW RUNNER/Powderhouse Productions: Develop and execute a stripped one-hour infotainment series for a major cable net. Science-tech background, web integration, a big plus. 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