• Teletoon has signed a multi-year output deal with comic-book giant Marvel. Due to begin in the spring, the pact will deliver ‘a minimum of 182’ episodes of first-run animation to the toon channel and its spin-offs, including rights for broadband, VOD, mobile and other platforms

• CTV has picked up the FremantleMedia series Merlin, set to join the mid-season schedule in 2009. The family-aimed fantasy (13 x 60), which launched on the BBC last month, follows the adventures of a teenaged Prince Arthur and Merlin and the voice of John Hurt.

• ITV Global Entertainment has picked up the world distribution rights for Shaftesbury Films’ Bloodletting & Miraculous Cures. The British broadcaster will handle the series in all territories except Canada. The one-hour drama series is based on the Giller Prize-winning novel by Vincent Lam and was greenlit earlier this year by The Movie Network and Movie Central.

• Toronto’s Guerrilla Films Releasing has sold the feature doc A Call to Arms to iChannel. The political doc, directed by Scott Miller, investigates the link between the anthrax vaccine and Gulf War Syndrome.

• Bejuba! Entertainment has struck a series of international deals for Jibber Jabber. The animated 13 x 30 about imaginative twins landed in Germany with KIKA, Latin America with Jetix, Turkey’s TRT, E-Vision in the Middle East, Portugal’s RTP, Noga in Israel, ABC in Australia and al-Jazeera’s children’s channel.

• Animation and effects studio Keyframe Digital Productions will co-develop the children’s series Sock Monsters with Dublin-based Kavaleer Productions. The show follows the adventures of runaway socks in a magical world.