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A CYNOPSIS MESSAGE FROM CABLEU
PUTTING THE U IN THE USA!
Cynopsis: InternationalCableU is your only source for in-depth analysis of the US cable marketplace. Whether you are selling to, competing with, or sourcing programs from American cable nets, there's just one place U need to go: www.CableU.tv These are just a few of companies enrolled ... and over 90% renewed! A&E - Atlas Media - Channel Five (UK) - Discovery Networks - ESPN - five TV UK - Granada - Hallmark Channel - HGTV - The History Channel - Lion Television - MTV - National Geographic Channel - Oxygen Media - ProSieben(Germany) - Sony Pictures Entertainment - Tapestry International - Towers Productions - VOOM - ZDF www.CableU.tv - Know Networks Better. Pitch Smarter. 04/08/08 Good morning. It's Tuesday, April 8, 2008, and this is your first early morning International & Multicultural briefing. MIPTV NEWS: Warner Bros. International Television Distribution (WBITD) and HBO inked a multi-year agreement to be the initial programming suppliers to France Telecom Orange's new multi-platform pay television service. WBITD sold its current and upcoming Warner Bros. features and certain titles from its feature and TV catalog. In HBO's first-ever output deal in France, Orange has acquired rights to HBO series, films, miniseries, select documentaries and library titles. The Orange service is scheduled to launch in 4Q2008. As part of other agreements, the service will also have exclusive access to all new movies from Fidelite Films and a film selection from Gaumont. Discovery Networks UK and British terrestrial broadcaster Five are teaming up on new and finished productions from Discovery. The deal covers an additional 6x60-minute run of My Shocking Story, produced for the two networks by Electric Sky for an U.K. airing this year. Five also picked up the first My Shocking Story season from Discovery. The Wag TV-produced 30-minute How Do They Do It? series has a commission for 10 more episodes for a 2009 broadcast on the two channels as well as internationally on Discovery Channel. IWC Media's Crimes That Shook the World will be co-produced for a second 10x60-episode season for airing on Discovery Channel and later Five in 2009. The series will also air on Discovery Channel in Europe, the Middle East, Africa and Asia. The first-window rights in the U.K. have been acquired by Five for the 4x60-minute Storm Chasers and the 26x30-minute Weird Connections. Starz Media and Tandem Communications are taking their current relationship to a new level starting immediately and continuing through 2009. Tandem will handle international TV sales of several key Starz Media series and collections, including the Fantasy/Adventure Collection, the new Ladies Night Out Collection and any additional 60-minute drama series announced through 2009. Starz Media will be in charge of international sales of original movies, animated series, and all other future programming. AETN International signed with Korea Telecom to launch a branded high-def VOD service for the History TV network in Korea. Scheduled to debut this summer, the service will be part of Korea Telecom's new IPTV service, Korea Telecom MegaTV. Discovery Networks EMEA relaunched Discovery Science and will soon launch Discovery World on April 18 (replacing Discovery Civilisation). The latter will be a more current, knowledge-based brand with multi-genre documentaries targeted to the A25-49 crowd. New titles include Egypt's Top 10 Discoveries with Dr Zahi Hawass, Dinosaur Resurrection and Weaponology. Discovery Science has a new on-air identity across Europe and the Middle East and new shows such as the four-part series Download: The True Story of the Internet and Cool Stuff: How It Works. RHI Entertainment sold its The Last Templar miniseries to Spain's Antena 3, Australia's Channel 7, France's M6, Italy's Mediaset and Germany's ProSiebenSat1. Other sales for the company were made for its live-action Flash Gordon to the Philippines' Creative Programs, India's Genex Entertainment, South Africa's M-Net, Sci Fi Channel in Benelux, France, Italy and Spain, Sweden's TV6 and Germany's TeleMunchen. In addition, the U.K.'s Contender and Australia and New Zealand's Horizon One picked up the DVD rights. Underbelly is heading all around the world following a deal with Fox International Channels and the U.K.'s Portman Film & Television. The 13x60-minute series, produced by Screentime for the Nine Network in association with the FFC, will broadcast on Fox branded channels across more than 50 countries (territories include the U.K., Italy, Balkans, Korea, Portugal, Russia, Turkey and Pan Asia). Five seasons (131x30-minutes) of Portfolio Entertainment'S Chef at Home are heading off to pay TV Canal + Cyfrowy / Kitchen TV (Poland) while Korea's C4U Media picked up the VOD rights for 52 episodes (seasons 4-5).Chellomedia UK's Zone Club acquired EMEA pay cable and satellite rights for all 65x30-minute episodes of Breathing Space Yoga. Globosat (Brazil) now has the pay TV rights for all 26 x30-minute episodes of Animal Magnetism. Singapore's Scrawl Studios and DECODE Entertainment are both signing on for a new animated show RPG High (w.t.) and co-distributing the series internationally. Scrawl will be in charge of the Asian region while DECODE will take on the international market. The K8-12 RPG High is a 52x11-minute series. Disney Channel Australia and New Zealand acquired rights to Beyond Distribution's kid's series, New Macdonald's Farm (54 episodes). The preschool series will begin airing in both countries as part of the Playhouse Disney lineup in July. The U.K.'s Five network acquired Chorion's preschooler-targeted Olivia, based on the book of the same name. Additional pre-sales have been made for the 52x11-minute show with Australia's ABC, Norway's NRK and Iceland's RUV, Sweden's SVT and Finland's YLE. BRB Internacional's The Imp (quite the useless evil creature) has been sold to MTV Poland, 2x2 TV Channel (Russia) and Xeip Canal Once (Mexico). The 65x90-minute episodes are co-produced by Red Kite Animation, Screen 21 and TVC. Amberwood Productions inked a co-production pack with Belgium-based Studio 100 for the new animated series, Super Mega Hyper Pets (26x30-minutes or 52x11-minutes). Targeted to K4-6, Super Mega Hyper Pets is produced in high-def and follows the adventures of little Timmy and his three pet pals. VIZ Media has brought in Manga Entertainment to distribute its DVD titles in the U.K. and Ireland. ITV took all U.K. rights to Toronto-based Tricon Films & Television's new Sanctuary sci-fi series (from Stargate: SG-1 and Stargate: Atlantis' creators) for a 2008 debut. The 13x60-minute drama is currently in production by Vancouver's Stage 3 Media for the SCI FI Channel in the U.S. and Astral Media's The Movie Network and Corus Entertainment's Movie Central in Canada. FremantleMedia has been quite busy ...
RDF Rights acquired the worldwide rights to three new October Films titles, including Caribbean Cops (8x60-minutes) for Virgin 1, Glamour Girls (8x30-minutes) for BBC Three and part of Channel 4's Dispatches strand, Iraq: The Betrayal. The Style Network will be launching in the following territories, adding more than 2 million subscribers to the channel: Multichoice Africa (Africa, pay TV), KPN (The Netherlands, mobile telecom and IPTV), Showtime Arabia (Middle East, pay TV), Portugal's PT Telekom, Vectra (Poland, ISP, cable TV), T-Com (Croatia, telecom and IPTV) and Melitacable (Malta). INTERNATIONAL MARKET: News Corporation upped its stake in Germany's Premiere pay TV company to 22.7% through an additional 2.8% share buy. Premiere, by the way, mentioned yesterday that it is interested in acquiring the Sat.1 free TV channel. BabyFirst, the 24/7 channel for babies/toddlers/parents, has launched on satellite provider Digiturk (Turkey). The channel will also offer information and tips specifically designed for the Turkish audience. Hurray For Huckle! (26x30-minutes) has been sold in Europe by Cookie Jar Entertainment to France 5, Nickelodeon (Italy), ZDF (Germany), TiJi (France) and SVT (Sweden). Will & Dewitt goes to Ireland's RTE while Jetix licensed adventure series Magi-Nation and World of Quest. PorchLight Home Entertainment acquired the U.S. DVD distribution rights to the 64 Zoo Lane from Millimages U.K. The show currently airs on Nickelodeon Jr.'s Noggin in the U.S. and the BBC in the U.K. Nickelodeon UK had a record breaking 1Q2008, the best Q1 in its 15-year history. It averaged a 14.1% share, according to BARB, Kids in C&S Homes (0700-1900, Jan-Mar 2008, including live overnight data). The week of March 24, the U.K. network averaged a 16.1% share, its best week since 1998, while March 28 turned a 20.1% share for the network's best overnight performance since 1997. CROSS-MARKET: Comcast in West Florida recently added the Gospel Music Channel for its digital preferred subscribers on channel 172. LATAM MARKET: TOP 10 US SERIES ON BROADCAST TV IN BRAZIL (Sao Paolo), FEBRUARY 2008 (Ranked by Rating, Indiv 4+) Channel Program Rating Viewers (000) REC* The Black Donnellys 3.93 675.67 REC Scooby-Doo 3.90 664.90 REC The New Woody Woodpecker Show 3.83 660.56 GLO** The Simpsons 3.79 650.71 GLO Lost 3.70 635.65 SBT*** Justice League Unlimited 3.64 627.60 GLO Mickey Mouse Clubhouse 3.61 620.81 SBT Pink Panther Cartoons 3.50 612.50 GLO Kenan & Kel 3.50 601.50 GLO Totally Spies 3.48 602.45 REC*: Rede Record GLO**: Rede Globo de Televisao SBT***: Sistema Brasileiro de Televisao Average of Rating & Viewers for Total Runs in the Month Does not include locally-produced US formats *Source: Computer Applications Development, Inc. (CAD) Software & Specialized Reporting ( / www.cadusa.com) / IBOPE Media Information GAY/LESBIAN MARKET: Logo will debut Sordid Lives: The Series on July 23 at 10p with a special microsite for the show on www.LOGOonline.com. Del Shores, the creator behind the 1996 play and 2000 film of the same name, writes and directs the 12x30-minute series looking at a dysfunctional family and a Texas town's locals. EXECUTIVE MOVES: Telemundo Communications Group named Jacqueline Hernandez to the newly created position of COO from her prior responsibilities as publisher of People en Espanol. She will manage domestic revenue and marketing, digital media and emerging platforms mun2, affiliate relations and all research functions. Reporting to Don Browne, President, she will be based out of New York. Anna Woo has been upped to VP/Business Operations and Finance for Disney Channel and Disney-ABC International Television, Asia Pacific. She will manage commercial strategies, business operations and financial management and planning for all of The Walt Disney Company's TV business in the region, including Disney Channels, Playhouse Disney channels, Toon Disney/Jetix and other wholly owned channels on cable and satellite platforms. Anna will continue to oversee all business operations and finance for Disney-ABC International Television, Asia Pacific. Based in Hong Kong, she will report to Jewell Engstrom, EVP and CFO/Disney ABC Cable Networks Group, and Robert Gilby, SVP and MD/Disney-ABC International Television, Asia-Pacific. A 13-year The Walt Disney Company veteran, Anna was most recently VP/Finance and Operations/Disney-ABC International Television, Asia Pacific. As part of its sale operations expansion in Toronto and London, ContentFilm plc's Fireworks International named a few execs to new positions. In Toronto, Smiljka Baljozovic and Kathryn Kozanczyn have been named as Sales Directors/Worldwide Sales, Factual Entertainment. They both come to the company the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation. For its London-based digital division, Fireworks named Patrick O'Connor-Read as Digital Sales Manager, responsible for the development of digital distribution for ContentFilm and Fireworks International across IP, VOD and mobile platforms, with a particular focus on Asia Pacific. Answer to Yesterday's Trivia Question: What football team does Derwin Davis of CW's The Game play for? SAN DIEGO SABERS Kudos to: Nicole Elliott-Rainbow Media/NY; Michael Ratliffe-TV One/Silver Spring, MD; Odette Felix-Dark Horse Media/Tucson; Nalinya Davis-20th Century Fox Television/CA Today's Trivia Question: What was the robot's name on the early TV series Captain Video and His Video Rangers? (Click here with your answer and be sure to include your name, company, city and time zone. 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