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PUTTING THE U IN THE USA! www.CableU.tv - Know Networks Better. Pitch Smarter. 04/04/08 Good morning. It's Friday, April 4, 2008, and this is your first early morning International & Multicultural briefing. INTERNATIONAL MARKET: As of April 12, Sony Pictures Television International (SPTI) will debut Japanese anime channel Animax in Spain. It will initially be available to more than 500,000 subscribers through Telefonica Espana's IPTV operator Imagenio. SPTI is in advanced talks with other pay-tv operators regarding additional carriage. Jetix Europe N.V. inked a multi-year agreement with French platform CANALSAT for continued carriage of the channel in France. France's IPTV operator Neuf Cegetel signed with TV Globo to distribute its TV Globo International as of this week for Portuguese and Brazilian communities living in the country. For the month of April, Neuf Cegetel subscribers will have free access to the channel before the channel becomes premium. The U.S.' SOAPnet and Finland's Channel Four took MVP: The Secret Lives of Hockey Wives, a 10x60-minute series from Canada-based Screen Door International. MTV One in the U.K. will debut a quite outrageous adult comedy show, Fur TV, on April 27 at 10p. The puppets, rather vulgar and s#x-driven, do all sorts of crazy things (fighting, drinking, chasing girls) while living in our human world. Warp Films is the producer behind the series. MTV Networks U.K. is, of course, putting it in its late night lineup. Echo Bridge Entertainment acquired the global distribution rights (excluding Canada) to Jeff Ltd. from S & S Productions in time for next week's MIPTV. The 26-episode primetime series runs 30 minutes. Youth series PlayUs has been sold by Reveille LLC to 9 territories, including MTV Networks, GloboSat's Multishow. The show, about young female Counter-Strike pros on a world gaming tour, was picked up by networks in Brazil, Denmark, Finland, France, Norway, the Philippines, Portugal, Spain and Sweden. Zodiak International inked a bunch of pre-MIP deals ... Reality format Unexpected Visit was re-licensed to the Netherlands' Rene Stokvis Produkties while lifestyle format Elixir The National Coach will be produced for NRK in Norway by Zodiak Group's Mastiff production studio.Broadcast rights to Against All Odds go to French-speaking Canal Vie in Canada. Seasons 2-4 of Cops Uncut have been acquired by Israel's Ananey (50x30 min). In addition to format licenses and finished tape sales, 150 home video clips from Zodiak International's library have been sold to the U.K.'s Granada/ITV Productions. Xilam's comedy animated series Oggy and the Cockroaches (200x7-minutes or 65x30-minutes) has gotten caught up in multi-platform deals. In addition to several licensing agreements, the show inked with France Television Distribution to produce an Oggy DVD Christmas special. News will be coming out soon about a K7-14-targeted comedy adventure video game. Season 3 will debut on French pay TV broadcaster Canal + in Fall 2008 with additional deals signed with Mediaset (Italy), VRT (Belgium), MTV Oy (Finland) and Noga (Israel). RDF Rights has acquired the rights to two U.S. series, Top This Party (14x30-minutes) and Suburban Virgin (4x60-minutes) produced by Intuitive Entertainment and Brand New Entertainment, respectively. The first originally aired on Lifetime. The U.K.'s Outright Distribution acquired the global distribution rights to a range of Ricochet programs, including Supernanny and It's Me Or the Dog, previously distributed by Channel 4 International. Ricochet is a Shed Media Group sister company. FremantleMedia Enterprises can get some satisfaction ... The company has inked 10 sales for 10-episode Satisfaction in Denmark, Ireland, Israel, Korea, New Zealand, Norway and France's M6 Group. The Australian drama is set in a high-class brothel. Virgin Media Television's Challenge family entertainment channel has exclusively licensed Bullseye Television Productions' new home video series Les Dennis's Home Video Heroes. Entertainer Les Dennis hosts the 60x30-minute show, which will serve as the flagship of Challenge's summer primetime lineup. It is produced by Bullseye Television Production with Zodiak International in charge of international distribution. ContentFilm plc's TV distribution unit, Fireworks International, pulled a range of Harmony Gold library deals. Harmony Gold's Robotech flagship series and feature film Robotech: The Shadow Chronicles have been picked up by Space for English-speaking Canada, Divisa Red for Spain and Portugal and ITA for Internet SVOD rights in Australasia. Teledifusora in Paraguay took broadcasting rights, while TFI Video acquired home video/VOD rights for the film in France and French-speaking Europe. Latin America's LAPTV bought two films, comedy Dirt and teen comedy Going Down. Heart of Fear was taken by One Films in Spain and VRT will air Abe & Bruno in Flemish-speaking Belgium. Other deals were signed with DARO (Africa), Force Video (Australia and New Zealand) and E.BisMedia (Italy and Italian-speaking Europe). HISPANIC MARKET: Si TV launched a joint venture with nonpartisan voter registration org Voto Latino to engage young Latinos in the Presidential election process. The Crash the Parties initiative starts with a nationwide search for two young Latinos to cover the Democratic and Republican National Conventions as reporters for the network (enter at www.crashtheparties08.com or at live events in 5 cities). The video submissions will also be viewable on Verizon Wireless' V CAST. Public voting begins on May 7 with a panel of judges evaluating the top five picks. CNN's Rick Sanchez will also mentor the young reporters. Planeta U (Planet U) is the new kid on Univision's block. The educational/informational programming block is geared to kids of all ages on Saturday mornings from 8-11a as of April 5. It will include shows such as Dora the Explorer, Go Diego, Go! and the return of Pinky Dinky Doo. In addition, a Hoy en la Historia (Today in History) segment will look at historically relevant facts in creative ways. www.Billboard.com launched a Spanish-language complement www.BillboardenEspanol.com, featuring news, features, charts, reviews, video streams and blog coverage of the Spanish music scene. AFRICAN AMERICAN MARKET: Tomorrow will bring in a The Hughleys marathon to TV One from 1-8p. Comedian John Henton will host the marathon introducing the sitcom The Hughleys to the network's schedule before it heads into its regular lineup on weeknights at 730p and 1130p. EXECUTIVE MOVES: Dori Media Group (DMG) is losing its Dori. Co-founder Yair Dori resigned from his positions as Executive Vice Chairman and Executive Director/External Affairs and will stay on as Non-Executive Vice Chairman at the Argentine and Israeli telenovela international distributor. Under a 2-year contract he signed with DMG, Yair will be a consultant as well. The Tel Aviv-based DMG was launched in 1996. BBC Worldwide brought in Tim Mutimer to be SVP/Global Television Sales, Europe, Middle East and Africa. The former 8-year Granada International Director/Sales will be in charge of a 65-person sales staff and manage all rights for European TV program sales in his newly created position. Tim reports to Steve Macallister, MD/Global Television Sales. Canada's The Fremantle Corporation has picked Irv Holender to be its new Director and Principal with MIPTV to be his first line of business for the position. Over the course of his career, Irv has served in licensing for 20th Century Fox, Paramount and WB's Loonie Tunes as well as being an exec producer for 600+ hours of programming. U.K.-based Entertainment Rights Plc upped Director/Sales Chloe van den Berg to Executive Director/International, continuing to report to Jane Smith, Chief Creative and Commercial Director. Chloe first joined the company in 2000 as Head/Sales. In addition to Chloe, several of her children's and family sales team members have been promoted.
Not quite a television-related exec move but did you hear that New Kids on the Block is coming back?!? Seems someone convinced them to reunite after 20 years (yes, you heard right) for a new album and a tour. Donnie Wahlberg, Joey McIntyre, Jordan and Jonathan Knight and Danny Wood are heading into the studio to record new music according to cnn.com. Those boys have grown up (www.nkotb.com/)! Friday Fun Fact: Scorpions were the first animals in the world to live on land. They have been around for 440 million years. Answer to Yesterday's Trivia Question: On what series can you find "Tutor Girl?" ONE TREE HILL (Haley) Kudos to: Eric Adler-Eric Adler Research/Clearwater, FL; Jaime O'Connor-Turner Broadcasting/NY; Briana Theiss-SpotPlus/Dallas; Susan Nessanbaum-Goldberg-M and S Entertainment/LA Today's Trivia Question: On the sci-fi series Andromeda, which character was a master of transformation? (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.) Later -- Ariana Rawls for Cynopsis: International Edition 04.04.08 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 A CYNOPSIS MESSAGE FROM CYNOPSIS MEDIA: TOP TIER
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