• Disney’s Buena Vista International Television continues its plan to expand its VOD business across Europe with a new sale to Athens, Greece-based Vivodi Telecommunications; the multiyear deal is Disney’s first in the country and will bring its content to a new channel called cableTV in the next few weeks.
• Toronto, Canada-based Shaftesbury Sales Company has sold 90-minute TV movie Booky Makes her Mark to several international broadcasters, including Sky in the UK, TV3 in Ireland, Netherlands Public Broadcasting and Reshet-TV in Israel.
• Bruno and the Banana Bunch, Canuck prodco Cuppa Coffee’s follow-up to short series Bruno, is set to premiere on the nation’s pubcaster CBC on Monday, April 2 at 9:45 a.m.