Maybe it's MIP, but there's a lot going on...

PBS debuts a second season of national lifestyle series Moment of Luxury this Thursday at 730p (check local listings). The series, with 13 half-hour episodes, features award-winning international designer Bill Stubbs as he interjects comfort and luxury for any American budget encompassing home design, food, culture and art. The series is shot in hi-def and is presented nationally by WLIW in association with WNET.ORG.

Public television station KCET, serving Southern and Central California and Charter Communications announced V-me is now available throughout Southern California on Charter Digital Cable. V-me offers a combination of original content, exclusive premieres and acquisitions and public TV shows adapted for the American Latinos.

NBC has a new family-focused in-studio game show called Perfect 10 on tap for US audiences and for the international marketplace. The game encompasses 10 seemingly simple games that must be completed by contestants in 60-seconds or less each in order to win the $1 million prize. Universal Media Studios in association with Friday Television is producing eight 60m episodes and the format will be launched at MIPCOM next week. Prior to going into production, 50 games will be available at nbc.com and via on-air promotions for viewers to test at home. The official rules of each contest will also be posted on the show's website.

Breakthrough Films & Television was commissioned by TELETOON Canada to produce a new family comedy for primetime titled Crash Canyon. Thirteen 30m episodes have been ordered from Breakthrough who is working with Joel Cohen, co-executive producer on The Simpsons and the series creators Jam Filled Entertainment. Crash Canyon is about the Wendells who take a nose dive off a cliff and end up in a canyon where they can't escape. The Wendells meet other odd people living together in a community they created called Crash Canyon.

Vooz and BRB Internacional are partnering to co-produce the new preschool series Canimal (52x5). Set to be available at the end of 2010, Canimal revolves around a group of small curious gnome-like 3D animated characters, shaped like a tin can and with the face of a cad, dog etc., which find something new in every object. Vooz and Screen 21, BRB's creative division, will present the property this week at Brand Licensing Europe and next week at MipJunior.


Domo comes to 7-Eleven stores this fall in a new in-store and online promotion, which includes collectible Slurpee cups filled with Fuji Frost by Fanta, special Slurpee characters straws and Bit Bite hog dog containers, coffee cups and Domo Attack! Energy drink as well as themed candy displays, collectible Domo Qee, Domo Manga, plush characters and t-shirts and caps among other products. The promotion is being supported with a three-part stop-motion webisode, which will debut weekly from October 1, can be found at www.slurpee.com and www.somonation.com. Big Tent Entertainment, the marketing/licensing company for Domo, helped bring the 7-Eleven deal together. Domo was created by Japanese illustrator/director Tsuneo Goda as the mascot for Japanese TV station NHK in 1998, eventually becoming a pop icon.