Gusto TV
Gusto TV’s original culinary series One World Kitchen has been picked up by Fatafeat TV, a free food channel with a reach in 21 Arabic countries. The deal with the Dubai-based channel was arranged by Gusto Worldwide Media’s Middle Eastern representatives Tanweer Group. In addition, the show was sold to Greek digital satellite pay TV platform NOVA. Earlier this month, One World Kitchen was the recipient of the international “Gold Panda” prize for Most Innovative Lifestyle Show at the Sichuan TV Festival in Chengdu, China.

Picture Box Distribution
Radical Sheep Productions’ preschool series Can You Imagine That? has been licensed to U.S.-based learning company Houghton Mifflin Harcourt’s app “Curious World.” The app, which launched last month, uses games, books and videos to aid the development of early learning skills in young children and is available on iPhone and iPad. The 52 x 5-minute series, which tells the story of young children and their dream jobs, is distributed by Picture Box produced by Radical Sheep in association with TVO. The series was also recently picked up by New Zealand’s TVNZ.

Stingray
Television channel Djazz.tv, which Stingray Digital Media Group acquired in July 2015, is now available on the Freebox, the set-top box for French Pay-TV channel free. The Freebox is a triple-play set top box for voice, video and data. Djazz.tv is now available on the service’s basic package. The channel is a combination of music documentaries and live performances from jazz, world music, tango, reggae and other genres.

Music For Productions
Toronto-based Music For Productions (MFP) has become the exclusive Canadian representative for all BMG production music libraries, after inking a sub-publishing deal with BMG/USA. The deal makes MFP, which offers music for use in the TV, film, advertising, corporate and multimedia industries, the representative of an additional 50,000 tracks from production music libraries such as Selectracks, X-Ray Dog Music, Music Beyond, Dig it Music and indie artists on the New York label Fieldhouse Music.

Blue Ant International
Toronto-headquartered Blue Ant International has sold more than 175 hours of unscripted content into Asian territories ahead of December’s Asia Television Forum (ATF). NBCUniversal International Networks (Asia) acquired two seasons of supernatural reality series Paranormal Survivor (20 x 60 minutes), while RTL CBS Asia Entertainment (South East Asia) picked up Wild Ride (16 x 30 minutes), Land Speed Heroes (6 x 60 minutes) and Prank You (6 x 30 minutes). South Korean channels Homestory Channel and KFN also bought season two of Live Here Buy This! (26 x 30 minutes) and Warships (6 x 60 minutes), respectively.

In India, Times Group acquired What’s For Sale? With A View! (13 x 30 minutes), My Retreat (26 x 30 minutes) and Reno My Reno (13 x 30 minutes). The broadcaster also bought Cabin Truckers (26 x 30 minutes) for its new property and real estate channel Magicbricks NOW. Elsewhere, Discovery Networks Asia-Pacific (South Asia) and China’s CCTV took five-part wildlife series Nomads Of The Serengeti (5 x 52 minutes), while Next Step Company (Thailand) acquired Canada Over The Edge (52 x 60 minutes).

In other Blue Ant news this week, the company has inked an exclusive, multi-year distribution output deal with Toronto-based Cream Productions. Read more about the deal here.

9 Story Media
9 Story Media Group has licensed the second season of its slapstick toon Numb Chucks to Disney Channels across Asia. Read more about the deal here.