LONDON: Iain Morris and Damon Beesley, who created the comedy The Inbetweeners, have formed a new film and TV production company, Fudge Park. The pair previously helmed the production company Bwark. They now serve as co-founders of Fudge Park, alongside Simon Wilson, Phil Gilbert, Mark Lesbirel and Leo Martin. The ...

NEW YORK: World Screen and MIPCOM are presenting the fifth annual Content Trendsetter Awards, which this year will honor MTG’s Jakob Mejlhede, FOX International Channels’ Jason Simms, Viacom U.K.’s Katie Keenan, Amazon’s Jason Ropell and SVT’s Christian Wikander. The recipients ...

LONDON: ITV has picked up the rights from World Snooker to air the snooker Shoot-Out event on ITV4 for the next three years. The one-frame knockout tournament, first staged in 2011, will broadcast on free-to-air TV for the first time. The 2016 event will run from February 12 to 14, ...

The summer premiere of the animated series Gravity Falls set a new record for Disney XD viewership, with an average of 2.3 million viewers. It marked the largest audience for a regular Disney XD series in the network’s six-year history, and Gravity Falls now accounts for the network’s top seven ...

UNIVERSAL CITY: NBC has made a pilot production order for an untitled comedy project from Tina Fey and Robert Carlock, as well as a series commitment for an untitled Michael Schur project. Emmy Award winners and producing partners Tina Fey and Robert Carlock are returning to NBC with a pilot production ...

UNIVERSAL CITY: NBC Entertainment has teamed up with Keshet Studios on a first-look programming agreement for the network that also includes a co-production partnership for scripted content with NBC's Universal Television. This pact expands the existing relationship between NBCUniversal and Keshet Media Group's Keshet International (KI), which launched the Los ...

SYDNEY: The hit U.S. cyber-security thriller Mr. Robot is set to debut in Australia on the SVOD streaming service Presto, thanks to a deal between NBCUniversal and Foxtel.  The first seven episodes of the ten-part series from Universal Cable Productions will now be available to stream on demand for Presto ...

LOS ANGELES/JOHANNESBURG: Trade-event organizer Basic Lead has expanded the DISCOPRO pitching, training and matchmaking program, conducted in parallel to DISCOP Africa. The 2015 agenda for DISCOPRO will put a special focus on strengthening relationships between Kenya and South Africa in an effort to revive the current co-production MOU between the two ...

MIAMI: U.S. Latino channel NBC Universo is set to debut next week the sci-fi series Alphas in Spanish. The show will debut August 19 and air weekly on Wednesdays at 10 p.m. The one-hour drama from BermanBraun Television and Universal Cable Productions originally aired on Syfy in the U.S. It ...

NEW YORK: Spike has greenlit its first dramatic scripted series in nine years, Harvest, which comes from Jerry Bruckheimer and Warner Horizon Television. The ten-episode series will go into production this fall and will debut on Spike in 2016. The network debuted its first scripted event series in eight years, ...