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New Brands Drive Sales at Entertainment Rights

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Entertainment Rights agreed a raft of sales at this month’s MipTV. Among the deals, “Postman Pat—Special Delivery Service,” which is set to air in the UK on CBeebies in autumn 2008, was sold to broadcasters in Denmark, Sweden, Australia, pan-regionally in the Middle East and Iceland.

“Toopy and Binoo,” aimed at 2 to 5 year olds and based on the best-selling Canadian children’s books by author Dominque Jolin, was sold into Korea and a commercial-free TV channel in the Middle East. 

ER’s newly acquired “Shelldon” is expected to be signed for airing in the UK, France, and multiple Scandinavian and Asian territories, according to ER.

The animated “George of the Jungle” series for boys aged 6 to 11 was sold to broadcasters in Norway (NRK), Russia (Central Partnership), Scandinavia (pan regionally via Nickelodeon), Belgium (VRT), Finland (VRT), Netherlands (Netherlands Public Broadcasting), Ireland (RTE), Denmark (TV2) and Iceland (RUV). These broadcasters join France 3 and France 5, where the series launched in October 2007, as well as Super RTL in Germany.

CG animated series “Casper’s Scare School,” in production for TF1 in France and for Cartoon Network Europe sold into the Netherlands (Jetix), Denmark (DR.TV), Finland (MYV 3), Norway (NRK) and the Middle East (Cartoon Network).

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