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InternationalUSE CableU. Programmers who know their competition are using CableU right now! A&E - BET - Comcast - Discovery Networks - ESPN - Five UK - HGTV - History Channel - MTV - National Geographic Channel - Smithsonian Networks -Sundance Channel - VOOM - ZDF What are U waiting for? www.CableU.tv - Know Networks Better. Pitch Smarter. 02/29/08 Good morning. It's Friday, February 29, 2008, and this is your first early morning International & Multicultural briefing. INTERNATIONAL MARKET: U.K.-based Target Entertainment acquired 10-year old indie drama producer Greenlit Rights Ltd. Greenlit Rights founder Jill Green, will remain on board as MD with the company offices staying put in their current location. The company specializes in event drama and series productions. Red House, a new U.K.-based indie production company founded by John Silver, has made its formal launch. Zodiak Television Group has taken a minority share in the new company. Red House will be all about features and factual entertainment formats, based out of Zodiak's offices in West Kensington in the U.K. The development team will be headed by Simon Bisset, series producer of BBC2's Paradise or Bust, Five's Build a New Life in the Country, and C4's Director/Grand Designs (C4). More senior execs to be named shortly. John Silver left his position as Creative Director/Features at Shine after four years at the end of 2007. As of March 15, U.S.-based Chinese-language distribution platform GekTV ( www.gektv.com ) will begin offering three Mandarin-language channels from News Corporation's Star TV as part of its IPTV platform's Mandarin package. Star Chinese Channel, Channel [V] Taiwan, and Star Chinese Movies 2 are dedicated to entertainment, music, and film, respectively. As part of its partnership with GekTV, Tai Seng Entertainment Group's Asia-based Tai Seng Media will monitor the live feeds to the U.S. for GekTV. Fox's curiosity has taken it across the ocean to import the U.K.'s Outnumbered and Spaced formats to the U.S. The former BBC1 show, a MRC production in association with Hat Trick, is about family raising three rather smart, uber-energetic kids. Fox has placed Larry Levin as writer/exec producer and Bryan Gordon as director for the pilot. Spaced is more of a continuation as the pilot was originally commissioned before the writers' strike and had to be placed on hold. Adam Barr will exec produce the 30-minute show about renters posing as a couple to get a low rent place. The BBC's CBeebies preschool kids service has commissioned RDF Media Group's The Foundation to produce a big new series, Way To Blue (WT), that will be coming to CBeebies from 2009. The 100x20-minute show is a mix of live action, featuring kids 4-6 years old and focusing on their emotions. The series originates from an idea created by Dan Good (Absolutely Cuckoo), who is a creative consultant on the series. Spain's Cuatro broadcaster signed in quite a few U.S. shows to fill its time slots. The network acquired TNT's Saving Grace, ABC's Samantha Who? and Women's Murder Club, NBC's Journeyman, USA Network's Burn Notice, and, last but not least, Spike TV's The Kill Point. The debuts are all slated for this year, per Variety. News from the BBC Showcase front … BBC Worldwide inked its first scripted format sale ever in Spain in a new agreement for Life on Mars with Antena 3. The Spanish version will be produced as an 8-episode run with BBC Worldwide's global format folks exec producing the show with the original creator, Kudos, also chiming in. It will air in primetime in 2009. In other Brighton Showcase news, BBC Worldwide inked several Russian deals, including two with broadcaster RTR for the How to Find a Husband format and the 10x60-minute Strictly Come Dancing from the U.K. CTC took What Not to Wear (What Not to Wear), per C21. Indie factual producer Tigress Productions has been commissioned by U.K. broadcaster Five to produce a new 6x30-minute event series, Jaguar Adventure with Nigel Marven. In addition, Tigress is also producing a further 4x60-minute Nature Shock for Five following the first series which has recently aired on the channel. Tigress' parent company IMG holds all international rights to Jaguar Adventure with Nigel Marven, which will be available outside the U.K. as a 5x60-minute series. Did you know that 14,670 episodes were produced for 529 television series in China in 2007 alone??? Last year, there were 2,511 companies producing the episodes, from which only 50% of the shows ever reached the air, according to China Radio International. Central and Eastern European content market DISCOP EAST has registered over 1100 participants to date, an increase of 22% at this time last year. It takes place in Budapest on June 18-20. HISPANIC MARKET: Universal Music Group (UMG) and Univision Communications Inc. inked a definitive agreement under which UMG will acquire Univision Music Group, including its music recording and publishing division. The financials of the deal were not announced. Univision Music Group is consists of Univision Records, Fonovisa Records, Disa Records, Univision Music Mexico, and Univision Music Publishing. Following regulatory approvals and customary closing conditions, UMG will phase out the use of the Univision name in some of the divisions. UMG will continue Univision Music's relationship with Univision's broadcast TV networks under a long-term agreement that will allow UMG to promote its Latin artists on Univision Network and TeleFutura. The two companies have worked together since Univision Music Group's infancy in 2001 with UMG acting as its distributor in the U.S., Puerto Rico, and Mexico. Telemundo's NTI results for February show the network averaging 614,000 A18-49 with a 20% share of viewers watching the three major Spanish-language broadcast networks in primetime, according to Nielsen Media Research. It saw a 15% increase from 533,000 in February 2007 as well as a 3 share point jump up. February marks the tenth consecutive month Telemundo posted year-over-year growth in both weekday primetime and Monday-Sunday primetime. EXECUTIVE MOVES: Lee Ettinger has joined York Entertainment as VP/Business Development, reporting to CEO Tanya York. He will work to drive international sales, senior level recruiting, and new sales channel and revenue stream development. Lee has worked for companies such as Hilton Hotels, SunGard Data Systems, Hartford Insurance Group, and more. Globo TV International added a new member to its sales team with Tatiana Peres as its newest Sales Executive/EMEA (Europe, Middle East, and Africa). She will be in charge of managing sales of TV Globo's content for Africa, the Middle East, Scandinavia, and Benelux (Belgium, Netherlands, Luxembourg). She oversaw local marketing activities for the U.S. international channel for the past three years. Friday Fun Fact: Camel's milk, which is widely consumed in Arab countries, has 10 times more iron than cow's milk. Answer to Yesterday's Trivia Question: "Not getting hassled, not getting hustled. Keepin' your head above water, making a wave when you can." These are part of the lyrics from what TV series? GOOD TIMES Kudos to: Alejandro Acebal-Telemundo 51/Miami; Margot Bradley-HOLA Networks/Coral Gables, FL; Chris Richards-ITN Networks/EST; Richard Oren-Target Entertainment Ltd./NY; Stacey Schneider-Helen Thompson Media, Inc./San Antonio; Steven Graciano-Fox Sports en Espanol/LA; Talia Rodríguez-Shakur-Streetropical Media/LA; Tricia Nelson-Herbalife International/Torrance, CA; Dan Griggs/CA Today's Trivia Question: This satirical cartoon's lead character was voiced by Jason Alexander and featured music composed by Frank Zappa. What was the name of this series? ( Click here 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.) 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