Tricon Films and Television

Tricon Films & Television has sold over 300 hours of factual and lifestyle programming into a slew of markets, including the Philippines, Japan and Brazil. Titles sold to Solar Entertainment (Philippines) for its broadcast channels 2nd Avenue and The Game Channel (TGC) include the first and second season of Restaurant Takeover (26 x 60 minutes), Now Eat This! (20 x 30 minutes), season one of Donut Showdown (40 x 30 minutes), The Heat (39 x 30 minutes), Ice Cold Cash (28 by 30 minutes), season one of A Bryk at a Time (28 x 30 minutes), Building Bryk’s (8 x 30 minutes), and Game Changers (8 x 30 minutes). Other sales made to Asian markets include season two of Restaurant Takeover to Asian Food Channel, I Didn’t Do It (7 x 60 minutes) to NTV Japan, and the first and second seasons of Get Connected (131 x 30 minutes) to Metropolis Television Brunei.

Elsewhere, Marriage Under Construction (seasons three and four, 52 x 30 minutes) and the first seasons of Donut Showdown and Restaurant Takeover to Chello Latin America, and season two of Love Trap (50 x 30 minutes) to Globosat Brazel. Season two of Restaurant Takeover also went to Annaney Israel. SBS Netherlands, Digicast Italy and SBS Studio Australia all picked up Extreme Collections (14 x 30 minutes), while the first two seasons of Get Connected went to MBN Middle East. In Quebec, Musique Plus Quebec bought season two of Ex-wives of Rock (54 x 30 minutes), and TVA Quebec also picked up A Bryk at a Time and Building Bryk’s.

IMAX

IMAX and Walt Disney Studios have signed an agreement to release a number of upcoming Disney films in IMAX theatres, including Marvel’s Captain America: The Winter Soldier and Maleficent, the companies announced this week. Other live-action films that will screen in IMAX theaters under the agreement include Marvel’s Guardians of the Galaxy and Avengers: Age of Ulton, as well as Star Wars: Episode VVI.

Nelvana

More than 340 half-hours of content from Corus Entertainment’s Nelvana are headed to three subscription video-on-demand (SVOD) platforms in France and the UK. SVOD rights have been licensed to Dailymotion and Canalplay Infinity S.A.S. in France as well as to mobile service Hopster in the UK. Dailymotion subscribers will get complete seasons of BEYBLADE: Metal Fusion, BEYBLADE: Metal Masters, BEYBLADE: Metal Fury, BEYBLADE: Shogun Steel, Franklin and Franklin specials, Franklin and the Green Knight, Franklin’s Magic Christmas and Franklin Back To School. The Canalplay Infinity deal includes the rights to BEYBLADE: Shogun Steel, Hot Wheels Battle Force 5 and Franklin specials, Franklin and the Green Knight, Franklin’s Magic Christmas and Franklin Back To School. In the UK, Hopster users will have access to episodes of Babar, Babar and the Adventures of Badou, Maurice Sendak’s Little Bear, Maggie and the Ferocious Beast and Max & Ruby. 

9 Story

 9 Story Entertainment has sewn up a raft of new international broadcasting deals for its math-based preschool series Peg + Cat. Treehouse (Canada), SVT (Sweden), YLE (Finland), TVNZ (New Zealand), TG4 (Ireland) and Canal+ Family together (France and French-speaking territories) have all acquired the animated series which was most recently picked up by Germany’s Super RTL for Germany and German-speaking Europe. The series originally aired in fall 2013 on PBS Kids in the US and launched earlier this month on Treehouse in Canada. Created by Jennifer Oxley (Little Bill, The Wonder Pets!) and Billy Aronson (Rent, Postcards from Buster), the series is a 9 Story and The Fred Rogers Company co-production for PBS Kids. 9 Story is also the show’s animator and distributor. Additional broadcasters already signed on to the program include ABC TV Australia, HOP (Israel), Mini-Mini (Poland), E-Junior (UAE), Zee Learn (India) and Disney (Korea).

– With files from Kidscreen