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FremantleMedia Enterprises (FME) inked a development deal with Prime Licensing, the licensing agency for Pele, which was handled by the William Morris Agency. As part of the agreement, FME will acquire the international rights to produce a documentary about the Brazilian soccer star. The U.K./U.S.-based Zig Zag Productions production house picked up its latest commission Relentless.The new 6x45-minute game show format is set to air in the U.K. this fall on Channel 4. Granada International will handle the global distribution. In the U.K., Chapman Entertainment is creating its own production studio, based out of Altrincham, Cheshire with operations to be fully up and running in July. The first project for the new studio with the second series of Roary the Racing Car for Five's Milkshake! and Nick Jr next year. With its initial staff of 20 folks managed by Chapman's London-based production team, it will work to service Chapman's future production orders BBC Worldwide picked up the exclusive global distribution rights to Canadian drama The Session with production to be handled by Temple Street Productions. It is scheduled to air in the 2008/2009 season. Channel 4 in the U.K. gave the green light for the 11th series of Scrapheap Challenge (20x60-minutes) from RDF Television West with RDF Rights handling all international and format rights to all Scrapheap Challenge series. In Toronto, Animal Planet is debuting a freeview period in July in which it will unleash 9 new series and 4 specials in addition to a new look (logo, on-air campaign and redesigned website). "Bite Me" Wednesdays will be a new jaws-and-claws programming block while Tuesdays will turn into "Pets and Vets". New series include After the Attack (stories of deadly confrontations and survival), Untamed and Uncut (shocking animal encounters), Raw Nature (how human development is affecting dangerous animals' natural instincts) and Breeder of the Pack (original Canadian production about dog breeders). My Pet Dinosaur (if dinosaurs lived among us) and Investigation Earth with Jeff Corwin (humankind's impact on wild animal habitats) are two of the specials set to debut in July. Ogilvy Entertainment is in a new 1-year development and production partnership agreement with RDF Digital to co-develop branded digital cross platform content. Tiscali UK and Warner Bros. International Television Distribution are in a new strategic licensing undertaking together to bring 400+ hours of programming on-demand to Tiscali TV subscribers through a Warner Bros.-branded video-on-demand (VOD) channel, Warner TV. Nip/Tuck, The O.C. and Smallville are just some of the shows to be offered on the channel, which will be open to Entertainment Xtra Mix subscribers. Strawberry Shortcake and Dino Squad are just two of several titles that have been sold by DIC Entertainment in Europe, Middle East and Africa. Recently signed broadcast deals for Strawberry Shortcake have been concluded with TV2 (Denmark), TV4 (Sweden), Mnet (South Africa), TiJi/Canal J (France), M6 (France), Tiny Pop (U.K.), Modern Times (Greece), SIC (Portugal), VRT (Belgium), TSR (Switzerland) and Mediaset (Italy) as well as Fox Video Europe (France and French-speaking Benelux) for home entertainment. Dino Squad goes to Mediaset (Italy) and Mnet (South Africa). In other deals, DIC is sending over an animated/live-action slate to French DTT channel Gulli (Care Bears) as well as other content to Italy's De Agostini, the U.K.'s Pop Girl, Cyprus' CYBC, Dutch-speaking Belgium's VRT, Switzerland's TSR, Lithuania's LNK and Russia's Kinotrav. More news up north as Kim Cattrall joins in on the Producing Parker sitcom as the voice of Dee for the animation's debut in Spring 2009 on E! in Canada. It is a Breakthrough Animation/Philippine Animation Studio co-production in association with Canwest Media with distribution handled by Breakthrough Entertainment. HISPANIC MARKET: On June 16 at 10p, the premiere of Sin Tetas No Hay Paraiso (Without Breasts, There's No Paradise) will make its way to Telemundo. Based on Gustavo Bolivar's book of the same name, it is a young woman's story about making the wrong decisions in order to escape poverty. Azteca Networks and DIRECTV, Inc. are launching Azteca Mexico, a new around-the-clock satellite-only channel to be aired through DIRECTV Mas in the U.S. on Channel 442. The network will have exclusive programming from TV Azteca's Channel 7, 13 and Proyecto 40 Mexican networks. Many of the programs aired in the U.S. will be shown date-and-time with TV Azteca in Mexico such as telenovelas Todo por Amor and Vivir Por Ti, Hechos, Poker de Reinas and other shows. GAY/LESBIAN MARKET: Tomorrow is the day that Logo will air the first NewNowNext Awards at 9p on digital cable and DirectTV. A pre-show countdown special will also air at 8p. The show will also be streamed simultaneously online at www.LOGOonline.com and sister websites www.AfterElton.com , www.AfterEllen.com and www.Downelink.com . EXECUTIVE MOVES: Viacom Inc. named Philip Jenner to the new position of VP/Government Relations, Europe from his prior position at Discovery Communications as Director/International Public Policy and Government Affairs. Based in London and reporting to EVP/Government Relations DeDe Lea, Philip will work on establishing Viacom's lobbying in the U.K. and European Union as well as strategic relationship development with trade associations and non-governmental European organizations. At Disney-ABC Television Group, Kevin Brockman has been upped to EVP/Global Communications. He reports to Anne Sweeney, Disney Media Networks' co-chair and Disney-ABC Television Group's President, and Zenia Mucha, The Walt Disney Company's EVP/Corporate Communications. In this position, Kevin will manage Disney-ABC Television Group's corporate, news and entertainment communications for ABC Television Network (ABC Daytime, ABC News and ABC Entertainment), Disney Channels Worldwide, several kids' TV businesses internationally, ABC Family and SOAPnet, Radio Disney, Walt Disney Television Animation, Buena Vista Productions, ABC Studios and ABC Corporate Initiatives. He will also be responsible for the Group's Photography, Broadcast Publicity, Ratings Publicity and Talent Relations and corporate communications for ABC's 10 owned TV stations in several key U.S. cities. Not finished just yet ... Kevin will also take on overseeing communications for Disney-ABC International Television and Hyperion. HOUSEKEEPING NOTE: All of the four daily editions of Cynopsis are now available as RSS feeds - the subscribe/click options show up at the end of this email, and will daily from now on. In the meantime and to move things along for you, here are the tags you'd need to subscribe to any of our daily editions:
Friday Fun Fact: The Ritz-Carlton in Tokyo serves a "Diamonds-Are-Forever" martini with a price tag of $16,000. The traditional olive has been replaced by a 1.6 carat diamond accounting for most of this hefty cost. Answer to Yesterday's Trivia Question: This was the TV ad slogan: "You've got the look I want to know better, You've got the look that's all together." What did you have to wear to get this "look"? JORDACHE JEANS Kudos to: Gabe Alfaya-XL Worldwide Corp./NY; Jose Raul Rodríguez-NBC/Telemundo/Hialeah, FL; Joe Swaney-Cartoon Network/GA; Michael Naso-The Naso Group/Aventura, FL; Alan Rosenfeld-Southeast Media Group/Telluride, CO; Megan Max-AdviCorp, Plc/Rome, Italy; Jake Vander Linden- Carat Philippines/ Makati City, Philippines Today's Trivia Question: Lt. Mike Stone and Inspector Steve Keller could be found on what TV series? (email 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 06.06.08 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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