London – Format distributor Zeal Entertainment, part of the Digital Rights Group (DRG) has sold The Singing Bee format to 26 territories worldwide since the show debuted July 2007 in the US on NBC. Created by The Gurin Company and Juma Entertainment, The Singing Bee musical game show already sees 14 shows airing on Australia’s Nine Network, New Zealand’s TVNZ, Turkey’s Show TV, Spain’s Antena 3, Italy’s Rai, the Netherlands’ RTL4, Finland’s MTV3, Sweden’s TV3, Norway’s TV3, Denmark’s TV3, Hungary’s TV2, Greece’s Alpha TV, Colombia’s Caracol TV and Chile’s Canal 13. Recent deals will also see 12 more shows go into production in China, the Philippines, Indonesia, Israel, the Middle East, Belgium, France, Germany, Iceland, Russia, Ecuador and Ukraine. Zeal Entertainment has also been named distributor of the Miss World Festival in 2008 for the fourth year. Miss World Festival is an annual international beauty pageant featuring participants from 120 countries. The 2007 Miss World Festival took place in Sanya, an island resort of Hainan, China, with the event details for 2008 to be announced.