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Cynopsis: International
06/11/08

Good morning. It's Wednesday, June 11, 2008, and this is your first early morning International & Multicultural briefing.

INTERNATIONAL MARKET:

BBC Worldwide is planning to launch a suite of BBC-branded thematic channels into Africa on MultiChoice's DStv platform as of September 1. BBC Entertainment (comedy, drama and light entertainment), BBC Knowledge (factual and non-fiction entertainment), BBC Lifestyle (home, family and lifestyle) and CBeebies (kids) will replace existing channels BBC Food and BBC Prime.

Ahead of DISCOP, B Wooding brought in several new international agreements ...
  • Hooked - ESPN in the U.S. for ESPN Classic
  • Screamers - Canal+ for broadcast on pay TV in Poland
  • Ron Haviv Freelance in a World at Risk + Thai Boxing: A Fighting Chance - Renewals for the U.S.' The Documentary Channel
  • The Tale of Tillies Dragon - Alphaville Filmes for home video in Brazil and Europe Production for the Czech Republic and Slovakia
  • Baby Genius - MagnaVision for DVD and audio distribution in the Philippines

VOOM HD Networks is launching two VOD offerings as companion services to its linear VOOM HD and RUSH HD channels. Five hours of VOD programming will be offered every month for each channel. VOOM HD channel is available in Europe and Asia and RUSH HD airs in the U.K. and Ireland.

The U.K.'s Optomen International sold Ramsay's Kitchen Nightmares and Ramsay's Kitchen Nightmares Revisits to D-Max in Germany and TV3 in Ireland (also took The F-Word).  Germany's RTL and Kanal Fem in Sweden both licensed the second run of US Kitchen Nightmares while Viasat in Norway and Eyeworks in Belgium have the format options on Ramsay's Kitchen Nightmares.  U.K. DVD publishers IMC Vision, which publishes the first three series, will also publish and distribute the latest The F Word series.  Acorn Media has also landed the rights to distribute the first series of US Kitchen Nightmares.

Jetix Europe inks a deal with its majority shareholder, Disney, for distribution throughout Europe, the Middle East and Africa (EMEA). As of July 1, 2008, Disney-ABC International Television (DAIT) will handle distribution of Jetix channels and digital content in these regions across all platforms, including cable and satellite and digital services such as IPTV and PPV. DAIT already serves as the distributor for Jetix content to free-to-air broadcasters worldwide, as well as a portfolio of Disney kid channels including Disney Channel, Disney Cinemagic, Playhouse Disney, Toon Disney, as well as ESPN Classic and NASN.

Spain's BRB International sold two seasons of its Around the World with Willy Fog to Italy's De Agostini for a Fall 2008 debut.  The cartoon series is based on three novels by Jules Verne.

Rive Gauche Television closed licensing deals for Video Zonkers, Hurricane Katrina Babies, Ultimate Ten, World's Most, Where Disaster's Happen, Did You See That? (seasons 1 and 2) and Sports Disasters (season 2) with AFL Productions for the CIS and Russia.  Video Zonkers' season 1, Whacked Out Sports (seasons 1 and 2), Real Strange, and Is That A Nail In Your Head? have been licensed to Singapore's Media Corp while seasons 1-3 of Scare Tactics will scare Eastern European audiences following deals with TV 3 for Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania and Sinerji Film/Kanal 1 for Turkey.  The latter is also taking a Scare Tactics special.

Japan's Adness Entertainment licenses the US broadcast rights for Kamen Rider Dragon Knight to 4Kids Entertainment, which plans to air the series as part of TheCW4Kids Saturday morning block on The CW Networks for the 2008-9 season. Kamen Rider Dragon Knight, a live-action series featuring CGI special effects, follows he adventures of a teen discovers a mysterious deck of cards that give him the power to transform into an ancient warrior called a Kamen Rider. Produced by Adness Entertainment, which is adapting for the US, the series is based on the original series Kamen Rider Kyuki, produced by the Toei Company.

GAY/LESBIAN MARKET:

Logo's www.AfterEllen.com will present the network TV premiere of Showtime's AfterEllen.com Presents The L Word on June 26 at 10p with commentary and show recaps headlined by lesbian video blog We're Getting Nowhere and Afterellen.com members.

EXECUTIVE MOVES:

Quite a few exec changes in several ITV divisions ...
  • Over in the U.K., ITV plc named Lee Bartlett as MD/ITV Global Content to manage U.K. and international production and distribution units, including ITV Productions.  He joined ITV Global Content as COO at the beginning of April and has been acting as interim MD since April 29. Lee reports to ITV plc COO John Cresswell.
  • Gustavo Antonioni joins ITV's Global unit as Commercial Brands Director on July 14. Reporting to Peter Iacono, ITV Worldwide's President and MD and indirectly to David Pemsel, Group Marketing Director, ITV, Gustavo will be responsible for global marketing and licensing strategy for ITV's commercial brands.
  • Caroline Stott has been named as Director/Global Marketing Services. She will manage the marketing team. Other appointments include Melanie Beer as Director/Merchandise and Licensing, Julie Quirke as Head/International Licensing, Giles Ridge as Head/Brand and Product Development and Claire Murphy as Director/Commercial Sports Services.

As part of Toronto-based The Fight Network's appointment of TwoBlueRhino (TBR) as its U.S. Affiliate Sales and Marketing agent, TBR President/Founder Nory LeBrun was named as The Fight Network's EVP/U.S. Affiliate Sales and Marketing.  He will oversee distribution development and execution for the network in the U.S. as well as affiliate sales/marketing, distribution and network development.

Parthenon Germany is growing with two new sales execs joining its team.  Working out of Munich, Mirjam Muetzel comes on board as Senior Sales Manager from her prior position at Telcast Media Group. Angela Weiss also comes in to the Munich office as Rights Expert.  Both Mirjam and Angela will report to Christine von Preyss, Head/Munich office and European Acquisitions.



Answer to Yesterday'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.   THE ADDAMS FAMILY (and if they got the combination wrong, the safe would explode).  Kudos to:  Joe Swaney-Cartoon Network/Atlanta; Patti Clements-KXRM/Colorado Springs

Today's Trivia Question:  On what sitcom was the work setting the magazine Blush?   (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 -- Cyn
06.11.08

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