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  • GRB sells factual content to Australia, NZ, Canada

    GRB sells factual content to Australia, NZ, Canada

    MUMBAI: GRB Entertainment announced sale of several titles spanning food, automotive, lifestyle, and crime to networks in Australia, New Zealand, and Canada.

    Foxtel acquired three series including BBQ Rules which follows Myron Mixon, three-time winner of the World Championship Barbecue and famed BBQ Pitmasters judge, and his son Michael as they help cook up your favorite BBQ dishes in your own backyard! Jet Truck follows daredevil racer Chris Darnell and his family as they thrill hundreds of thousands as they race their 36,000 horsepower, 376 mile per hour jet-propelled truck. In investigative crime documentary Cropsey, realizing the urban legend of their youth has come true, two filmmakers return to their hometown to investigate the mystery behind five missing children and the real-life boogeyman linked to their disappearance.

    E! Entertainment and Style acquired two seasons of My First Home for Australia and New Zealand following first-time homebuyers through the process of choosing their first property, where “must-haves” and budgets don’t always meet.

    Canada’s Game TV Corporation picked up popular cooking series BBQ Pitmasters, taking viewers into the exciting world of competition barbecuing where the chefs put their saucy reputations on the line to earn thousands of dollars and an opportunity to take home the title of the nation’s best Pitmaster.

    “GRB boasts a catalogue full of high energy, thrilling programs that educate, entertain and intrigue. Myron Mixon has become a household name in BBQ and we’re thrilled he’s now teaching us how to make his delicious meals in our own homes,” said GRB Entertainment international distribution SVP Michael Lolato.

  • GRB sells factual content to Australia, NZ, Canada

    GRB sells factual content to Australia, NZ, Canada

    MUMBAI: GRB Entertainment announced sale of several titles spanning food, automotive, lifestyle, and crime to networks in Australia, New Zealand, and Canada.

    Foxtel acquired three series including BBQ Rules which follows Myron Mixon, three-time winner of the World Championship Barbecue and famed BBQ Pitmasters judge, and his son Michael as they help cook up your favorite BBQ dishes in your own backyard! Jet Truck follows daredevil racer Chris Darnell and his family as they thrill hundreds of thousands as they race their 36,000 horsepower, 376 mile per hour jet-propelled truck. In investigative crime documentary Cropsey, realizing the urban legend of their youth has come true, two filmmakers return to their hometown to investigate the mystery behind five missing children and the real-life boogeyman linked to their disappearance.

    E! Entertainment and Style acquired two seasons of My First Home for Australia and New Zealand following first-time homebuyers through the process of choosing their first property, where “must-haves” and budgets don’t always meet.

    Canada’s Game TV Corporation picked up popular cooking series BBQ Pitmasters, taking viewers into the exciting world of competition barbecuing where the chefs put their saucy reputations on the line to earn thousands of dollars and an opportunity to take home the title of the nation’s best Pitmaster.

    “GRB boasts a catalogue full of high energy, thrilling programs that educate, entertain and intrigue. Myron Mixon has become a household name in BBQ and we’re thrilled he’s now teaching us how to make his delicious meals in our own homes,” said GRB Entertainment international distribution SVP Michael Lolato.

  • BBC Worldwide makes first intl sale of ‘In the Night Garden’

    BBC Worldwide makes first intl sale of ‘In the Night Garden’

     MUMBAI: UK pubcaaster the BBC’s sales division BBC Worldwide has made the first international sale of new children’s property In the Night Garden to New Zealand’s TVNZ.

    The children’s series from Ragdoll was created to appeal to very young children.

    In The Night Garden is a modern interpretation of a nursery rhyme picture book that takes children on an imaginative journey to meet a dazzling host of characters living together in a happy and caring woodland community.

    BBC Worldwide’s Sales Manager, NZ Melanie Owen says, “In The Night Garden is just enchanting. It is funny, reassuring and inspiring entertainment for young children and their carers.”

    BBC Worldwide has also concluded deals with TVNZ for the first two series of The Catherine Tate Show and Fear Stress and Anger.

    Little Robots and What Not to Wear S6 will also have their New Zealand premieres on the network.

     

  • Disney’s Ugly Betty sits pretty as No.1 show in NZ

    Disney’s Ugly Betty sits pretty as No.1 show in NZ

    MUMBAI: The 2007 Golden Globes is an affirmation of the phenomenal popularity of Walt Disney Company’s Ugly Betty. Riding high on all the adulation, the series has just got a fillip as it premiered in New Zealand. The series, aired on TVNZ’s TV2 on 16 January at 8:30 pm, was the highest rated show of the night.

    The show was telecast in New Zealand a day after its awards romp at the Globes. Attracting an average audience of 613,600 viewers, the series captured a remarkable 18.58 per cent rating share in age group 18-39. Similar to its performance in the US, it was the nation’s female viewership that drove a massive 70 per cent share of its viewership.

    “We couldn’t be more pleased with Ugly Betty’s performance in New Zealand,” commented BVITV’s senior vice president and management director in Asia Pacific Steve Macallister. “We are confident that this endearing and universal fish-out-of-water tale will continue to warm the hearts of viewers as it launches across the region.”

    l In Asia Pacific, Ugly Betty has already been licensed by The Walt Disney Company’s Buena Vista International Television-Asia Pacific (BVITV-AP) to ten broadcasters. TVNZ was the first to premiere in the region. The next launch dates across the region include Korea (KBS) on 3 Feb, Singapore (MediaCorp TV) on 5 Feb, Malaysia (8TV) on 6 Feb and Hong Kong (TVB Pearl) on 15 March. Australia (Seven Network), pan-regional (STAR World), India (STAR India), Korea (CJ Media Channel CGV) and Fiji (Fiji TV) have also licensed the series with air dates not yet announced.

    On 15 January Ugly Betty received a Golden Globe for Best Television Comedy with series star America Ferrera taking home the award for Best Performance by an Actress in a Television Series, Comedy or Musical.

    Ugly Betty (Touchstone Television) is the number one new comedy of the 2006-07 television season with both total viewers and adults 18-49 in the US. Ugly Betty has greatly improved the time period for ABC, nearly doubling its year-ago delivery in both total viewers and adults 18-49. The series was launched in the UK on Friday 5 January with the highest premiere ratings for a US comedy on Channel 4 in 10 years.

    The series is licensed by Disney’s Buena Vista international Television (BVITV).