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CABLEU SIZE DOESN'T MATTER IT'S THE TOOLS U USE! No matter how big your company or your job, everyone needs critical information on sales, research & development. CableU does it all for U: performance & trends, schedule changes, development slates, network needs, interviews with key execs, tutorials ... everything you need to be the most effective industry player, and lots more ... What are U waiting for? Subscribe or renew to CableU and you could win a Video iPod! Click here for more info.(Promo Code: IPOD) www.CableU.tv - Know Networks Better.Pitch Smarter. Cynopsis: International 06/10/08 Good morning. It's Tuesday, June 10, 2008, and this is your first early morning International & Multicultural briefing. INTERNATIONAL MARKET: Canada's Shaftesbury Films has acquired Smokebomb Entertainment, a developer of original multiplatform digital content, which will now become Shaftesbury's newly created Digital Media division while keeping its Smokebomb Entertainment name. Exec Producers Daniel Dales and Jarrett Sherman will head up the unit. The two companies recently worked together on podcasts for the Family Channel Life with Derek website. The first big project for the division will be an online companion project for the upcoming drama series The Listener (CTV/NBC/Fox International) at www.thelistenertv.com . They are planning on producing at least two original online series in the first year. Temple Street Productions has a new investor by the name of BBC Worldwide. The company acquired a minority stake in the Canadian producer for an undisclosed amount. Temple Street will gain first look rights at BBC Worldwide formats for Canada while the latter picks up the global distribution rights to Temple Street's scripted and unscripted formats and programming. Magma dd inked an agreement with the recently merged Granada Ventures and Granada International to handle its licensing, distribution and broadcast in Eastern Europe. The first project will be connected to the TV rights for the preschool animation series Pocoyo to broadcast in Croatia, Serbia and Bosnia with a licensing and merchandising deal running alongside the new broadcast contract to cover Bosnia, Serbia, Herzegovina, Kosovo, Macedonia and Montenegro. The series is scheduled to debut on September 1. Jetix Europe signed an agreement with Disney-ABC International Television, an affiliate of its major shareholder, for distribution of Jetix channels via cable, satellite, IPTV and PPV across Europe, the Middle East and Africa. CABLEready secured an exclusive agreement with Entertainment In Motion to rep its entire programming catalog to the airline market. In a new Canadian/LA venture, Kathy Slevin, Platt Productions' Phyllis Platt and Lawless Entertainment's Cathy Malatesta and Bryan Taw are teaming up to produce several properties. They have already developed several dramas and comedies that will be jointly produced in Canada with international partners. Up in Toronto, Portfolio Entertainment has detected its first primetime animated show, Chinatown Cops, which was given the go-ahead by the Detour on TELETOON Pilot Project. The series, targeting the 18-35-year old audience, is about two self-proclaimed supercops who hand out their own brand of ginseng-justice. Canada's Taffy Entertainment sold its new CGI-animated kids/family series Twisted Whiskers to France's CANAL+. Currently in production with Mike Young Productions and DQ Entertainment, the show is scheduled for an early 2009 debut. Astral Media's The Movie Network (eastern Canada) and Corus Entertainment's Movie Central (western Canada) picked the production dates for original drama series Sanctuary and Bloodletting & Miraculous Cures in addition to the second season of The Weight. Currently in production until September 10, the first is a 13-episode series commissioned by the two networks as well as the U.S.' SCI FI for an October 2008 debut. The 8-part Bloodletting & Miraculous Cures, based on the Vincent Lam novel, begins production in Spring 2009 for a fall debut on the two Canadian channels. Last, but not least, the second run of The Weight shoots next month for a spring premiere. My, my, these Canadians are quite busy!! Vivendi Entertainment Canada and Nelvana Enterprises inked an exclusive home video license deal for the Bakugan franchise in Canada, which is aimed at 6-12-year old boys. The collaboration will start off with the August 26 release of the first five episodes of action/adventure show on DVD in Canada. It is a co-production from Nelvana Enterprises, Spin Master Ltd., Sega Toys Ltd., TMS Entertainment, Ltd., Japan Vistec Inc. and Sega Corporation, with animation by Japan Vistec Inc. and TMS Entertainment, Ltd. In a post-LA Screenings deal, Alfred Haber Distribution, Inc. was named for the 4th consecutive year as the exclusive global distributor for the 2008 Victoria's Secret Fashion Show. The show will air this fall on CBS. Picture Production Company Group's PPC Enterprises licensed the U.K. and Ireland DVD rights for the new CGI series, The Pinky & Perky Show, to Granada Ventures' ITV DVD. With an anticipated October launch following the 52x13-minute series' debut on BBC ONE's CBBC this fall, the DVD will include the first six episodes and special features. CROSS-MARKET: The 2008 U.S. Open Championship is coming up this week with the first two rounds airing on ESPN on June 12 and 13. As far as Hispanic and international coverage, coverage will air on ESPN Deportes, ESPN International and www.ESPNDeportes.com . ESPN Deportes will offer over 9 hours of live U.S. Open coverage on June 12 from 5-925p and June 13 from 5-10p while the website will have live scores/standings, news, columns, polls and daily video analysis and highlights. On ESPN International, U.S. Open coverage will be on in Latin America, Sub-Saharan Africa, Middle East/North Africa, Israel, Canada (on TSN) and Asia (on ESPN Star Sports). Going back in time, U.S. Open Classic golf films will air on ESPN's Sub-Saharan Africa, Middle East/North Africa and Israel networks. U.S. Open SportsCenters will also air in Sub-Saharan Africa and Israel. HISPANIC MARKET: Spanish Broadcasting System, Inc.'s Mega TV will soon start production on its first miniseries, which is being produced by the new Megafilms. DirecTV Mas is also joining in as co-producer on the project debuting in September starring Chayanne and Jose Luis Rodriguez. WAPA America signed an agreement with Time Warner Cable and BrightHouse Networks for immediate carriage on the latter's Digital Cable tier channel 63 in Orlando. Launches are planned in the near future on Time Warner's New York City and BrightHouse's Tampa systems for the programming based on Puerto Rico's WAPA-TV broadcaster (and other U.S. rights programming such as the Puerto Rican Professional Basketball League). WAPA America will be the exclusive Spanish-language broadcaster of the New York Puerto Rican Day Parade and the Miss Puerto Rico Pageant in September. It is owned by the New York-based InterMedia Partners. As part of its PARTICPA 2008 election coverage, V-me's Andres Oppenheimer will sit down with Democratic Presidential nominee, Barack Obama, to talk about U.S. relations with Latin America and Cuba in particular, Columbia's FARC insurgency and more on June 13 at 10p. LATAM MARKET: Globo TV International renewed its volume agreement with Ecuador's Ecuavisa. Up to 2011, the output deal will include up to a 1000 hours of TV Globo productions each year, a 10% volume increase over their current agreement. Ecuavisa will now broadcast a minimum of three daily hours of Globo programming. TOP 10 US SERIES ON BROADCAST TV IN BRAZIL (Sao Paolo), APRIL 2008 (Ranked by Rating, Indiv 4+) Channel Program Rating Viewers (000) REC* The New Woody Woodpecker Show 4.96 855.85 GLO** X-Men 3.97 686.33 SBT*** Powerpuff Girls 3.92 671.13 GLO He-Man and the Masters of the Universe 3.90 669.40 GLO American Dragon: Jake Long 3.78 648.32 REC C.S.I.: Crime Scene Investigation 3.68 636.52 GLO The Simpsons 3.65 631.13 GLO Hannah Montana 3.55 616.12 SBT The Sylvester and Tweety Mysteries 3.44 593.61 REC House 3.34 576.06 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 EXECUTIVE MOVES: Discovery Communications upped Jo Edwards from to VP/International Licensing to lead licensing and franchising in Canada and internationally with the company's five global offices as well as collaborating with development teams around the world on new franchise opportunities for Discovery's programming. Reporting to Caleb Weinstein, SVP/Discovery Enterprises International, she will also work on sales development strategy and marketing and distribution of all licensing initiatives including home video, merchandise and licensed promotions in Europe, Asia, Latin America and Canada and new licensing development for magazine publishing, live shows, gaming and more. Metronome Film & Television recruited Johan Westman to be its new Development Manager as of September 1. He will, among other duties, be responsible for Metronome's Creative Exchange group, which handles Metronome Group development and producers-developer collaborations. Reporting to Michael Porseryd, Metronome's COO, Johan previously came from Sweden's Channel 5 and Channel 9 where he was Program Manager. Answer to Yesterday's Trivia Question: In the '80s Annette Funicello was the spokesperson for what popular brand of peanut butter? SKIPPY Kudos to: Matthew Willence-ITN Networks/NY; Eric Adler-Eric Adler Research/Clearwater, FL; Scott Osborne-Univision/NY; Jane Pook/NY; Kathy Alexander-SpotPlus y Mas; Ana Lydia Ochoa-PADMA media; Debbie Supnik-Weller-Grossman Productions/N Hollywood CA; Lee Davis-Development Solutions/Santa Monica; Megan Max-AdviCorp, Plc/ Megan Max-AdviCorp Plc/Rome, Italy Today's Trivia Question: Whose wall safe uses this code to unlock the vault? 35-Right, 81-Right, 64-Left, 63-Left, 29-Left, 13-Right, 16-Left, 22-Left. 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