| MUMBAI:
Marking the first deal to come from their recently announced alliance, ABC 3 in
Australia has acquired MarVista Entertainment's reality format Prank Patrol
from ActiveTV.
Recently,
MarVista and ActiveTV announced a deal at Mipcom by which MarVista gets the exclusive
distribution rights of the Australian indie's family entertainment properties
outside Australia and New Zealand, while ActiveTV acquires option rights for Australia
and New Zealand for MarVista's formats. ABC
3 will launch its version of Prank Patrol on 4 December. The show provides
kids instructions on how to create, build and execute the prank of a lifetime.
Created
by Canada's Apartment 11 Productions, the original Prank Patrol series
has been a long-running hit on YTV in Canada, with a UK format also airing on
CBBC. | 
