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Cynopsis: International
07/18/08

Good morning. It's Friday, July 18, 2008, and this is your first early morning International & Multicultural briefing.

INTERNATIONAL MARKET:

The Weinstein Company inked an exclusive deal with Sky Italia to distribute its movies on pay TV in Italy, including films such as Bobby, The Nanny Diaries and SiCKO.

The MoonScoop Group's Taffy Entertainment completed a number of Eastern European deals following DISCOP.
  • Lithuania's LNK took the free TV rights to the animated series Dr. Dog and The Fantastic Four.
  • Pet Alien has been picked up by Ukraine free TV broadcaster 1+1.
  • Croatia's Blitz Films bought the free TV, pay TV and home video rights to the CGI-animated Dive Olly Dive! and SamSam series for ex-Yugoslavian territories.
  • Urania picked up the home video rights to Dive Olly Dive! for the Czech Republic and Slovakia.
  • Casper's Scare School's home video rights went to S.D.T. in the Poland, Czech Republic and Slovakia territories.

MTV Networks International got quite animated with Taiwan's YoYo TV kiddie channel following a deal between the two in which the Eastern Broadcasting Group business took 118 hours of content, per Variety.  SpongeBob SquarePants, Avatar, Dora the Explorer and Go Diego Go will all make their way to a Nickelodeon-branded block on the K0-7-focused channel.

Britain's longest-running drama, Coronation Street, picked up a multi-year renewal as part of multi-genre output deal between London's ITV Worldwide and Finland's YLE public broadcaster.  The series will be stripped twice a day on YLE's TV1.

Asia has been good to Digital Rights Group's C4i distributor this week with a whole bunch of new deals in the region for over 120 hours.
  • Fox International Channel's South East Asian channel, FX, took season 1-5 of Peep Show (30x25-minutes) while AETN All Asia Networks went for a package of true life stories for airing on its Crime & Investigation Network, including The Girl In A Box (1x50-minutes) and The Fake Trade (2x50-minutes).
  • South Korea's EBS and Public TV Service Foundation in Taiwan bought Undercover in Tibet (1x60-minutes) while the latter is also acquiring True Vision's (for Channel 4 and HBO) China's Stolen Children (1x52-minutes).
  • Over 60 hours of programming were picked up by True Visions for its branded channels in Thailand, including Time Team, How Young Can I Get (1x56-minutes), Newlywed, Nearly Dead? (13x25-minutes) and Medicine Men Go Wild (4x48-minutes).
  • The Asian Food Channel bought a package including two Keo Films shows, Hugh's Chicken Run (3x50-minutes) and River Cottage Treatment (3x50-minutes).
  • Last, but not least, Astro in Malaysia acquired Pioneer Productions' The Living Body (1x100-minutes), Animals in the Womb (1x100-minutes) and Brat Camp (4x50-minutes).

ALL3MEDIA International's teen drama SKINS is seeing a little action in Spain following deals signed for two seasons with pay channel TUEVE, who will debut the show, and ANTENNA 3's new NEOX digital channel for airing later in the week. In the U.S., BBC America picked up SKINS for a summer premiere.

On August 4 from 9p-midnight, History will debut a special co-produced with China's CCTV national television network.  China's First Emperor tells the epic story of how Chin Shi Huang Di rose to power and created an empire (many believe he became so obsessed with his own immortality that he poisoned himself trying to find a potion to attain eternity).

HISPANIC MARKET:

mun2's newest reality show, The mun2 Hook Up, will start matching young Latinos with pros in an industry of their choice stating on July 30 at 10p. For those wanting a glimpse of the show, the network will offer the complete first episode on www.holamun2.com/hookup one day prior to its on-air debut on July 29. Every following episode will have a dual-screen premiere.

Univision's first annual Tecate Premios Deportes (Tecate Sports Awards) has been rescheduled to air on July 27 at 7p instead of the previously announced July 20 broadcast. The show includes 10 categories honoring Hispanic athletes for their talent, character, perseverance and contributions to and impact on the Hispanic community. It takes place in Pasadena, California.

EXECUTIVE MOVES:

Virgin Media and the BBC's UKTV named Paul Moreton as the Channel Head of its new Watch entertainment channel, launching in October.  The current topper for both UKTV Gold and UKTV Drama will continue to oversee UKTV Gold when it relaunches as well.  Steve Hornsey has been upped to Channel Head and will take over Paul's UKTV Drama responsibility when it relaunches as Alibi.  Steve was previously UKTV Gold and UKTV Drama's Deputy Editor.

Off the Fence (OFT) named two new folks to its sales team. Coming in from her Discovery Networks Manager/Business Affairs and Acquisitions position in Germany, Regina Sasse is becoming OFT's Senior Business Affairs Manager while Alexa Dubard is a new Sales Executive. Alexa was previously with Marathon International. She will now oversee sales to Iberia, Latin America and Spanish-speaking territories.



Friday Fun Fact: 
The Hawaiian alphabet has just 12 letters.

Answer to Yesterday's Trivia Question:  Which current Travel Channel show host once appeared on Miami Ink where he got a tattoo of a skull?   ANTHONY BOURDAIN (No Reservations)   Kudos to: Nanette Anderson-Discovery Mobile/Silver Spring, MD; Dusty Ratledge- Scripps Networks/Knoxville, TN; Sabrina Toledo-CABLEready/CT; Eddie Hsu-KCTV/Kansas City

Today's Trivia Question:  Cynopsis editorial staff are all on vacation all next week which means no editions for the week.  We will be returning on Monday, July 28.  With that said, however, our Sales and Marketing staff will be available to you all week long, as usual!  To that end, no trivia question today.  Enjoy your week!

Later -- much much later - -- Ariana
07.16.08

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