Nickelodeon's conventional kids TV wisdoms may need to be turned on their heads to meet young audiences' entertainment demands, network president Cyma Zarghami said here Oct. 12 at the closing keynote of the MIPCOM Junior show.

Green is decidedly the trendy color at MIPCOM this week, with key producer-distributors expected to unveil loads of eco-friendly projects.

CANNES -- Comcast International Media Group's Asia Pacific operation opens the MIPCOM programming market Monday with 700 hours of licensing deals signed over the past six months, including a new deal for The Style Network branded block on Foxtel's Arena

Disney-ABC-ESPN Television, the international distribution arm of the Burbank-based Mouse House, will unveil Monday its first European agreement to offer content to Microsoft's MSN video viewers across Europe.

Abu Dhabi's global media ambitions were boosted further with the announcement Oct. 12 of an ambitious content creation zone.

Side Effects," a telefilm about the Thalidomide birth defect scandal in the 1960s won the top prize at the German Television Awards Saturday night.

Financing issues were top of everyone's agenda at this year's MIPCOM Junior. Sunday buyers and sellers alike acknowledged that the financial crunch would have serious and long-lasting effects on a kids market.

Speculation is mounting that U.K.-listed character licensing group Entertainment Rights is poised to file for bankruptcy after shares collapsed last week, leaving the company facing margin calls.

The effects of the global financial meltdown weighted on the minds of the TV execs and producers at the opening of MIPCOM.More MIPCOM coverage

A Russian-made historical drama about a Revolution-era naval hero with romantic entanglements emerged as the weekend's surprise No.1 international boxoffice winner.

Marvel Animation TV series have found an exclusive home in Canada on the domestic cartoon cable channel Teletoon, it was announced Oct. 13.

Celestial Pictures said Monday it had signed a deal with Switzerland-based AllTheContent to distribute mobile products derived from Celestial's Shaw Brothers film library via Luxembourg's VoxMobile.

Russian TV channel TNT, which is focused on providing entertainment for younger audiences, has announced an increase in audience in Moscow and the surrounding region thanks to signing new deals with three local cable operators.

Controversy over broadcasting of Russian satellite TV channels in Ukraine deepened as the country enters a political crisis following the dissolution of its parliament on Thursday.

Gallic TV network M6's animation production subsidiary M6 Studio is sending popular animated schoolboy "Little Nick" across the globe at this year's MIPCOM, M6 said Monday.

French President Nicolas Sarkozy's plans to wipe out ads from his country's public TV networks might be put on hold in the wake of the global financial crisis.

Gallic public TV group France Televisions is dipping its feet in the fountain of youth with the group's main terrestrial networks banding together to form one main children's programming unit, France Televisions said Monday.

Franco-German TV network Arte has partnered with MySpace to launch the Web series "Twenty Show" geared towards twentysomethings, Arte said Monday.

Dutch minister of Development Cooperation Bert Koenders is under attack for subsidizing a feature film that will never be released in cinemas.