World Screen

LOS ANGELES: MacGyver is one of the plethora of new shows CBS’s international distribution team unveiled for foreign buyers on the Paramount lot yesterday.

NEW YORK: Of all of FOX's new shows presented at last week’s Upfronts, the event series Prison Break, reuniting the cast of the original series, is on top of the buzz list in social media, ahead of two other revivals of hit franchises, according to new analysis from The WIT.

LOS ANGELES: Warner Bros. pulled out a potent weapon at its first unveiling to overseas buyers of its new prime-time series Monday: a reboot of its classic buddy cop movie Lethal Weapon.

International buyers will be heading off to the Hollywood studios in the coming days to screen the new series picked up by the broadcast networks.

NEW YORK: The emotional comedy drama This is Us generated the most social-media buzz among the new shows unveiled by NBC at its Upfront last week, according to analysis from The WIT.

PREMIUM: Disney threw open its doors on its Burbank backlot Sunday evening to 750 overseas guests for its International Upfronts, the first official occasion for foreign program buyers to glimpse snippets of its new prime-time series on offer for its flagship network ABC and sibling cable outlet Freeform, as well as its upcoming theatrical tentpoles.

LOS ANGELES: High-concept experiments, comedies about homebodies, spin-offs and reboots, time-travel adventures and tested procedurals—all await the almost 2,000 international TV executives flocking right now to Tinseltown for the annual marathon known as the L.A. Screenings.

LOS ANGELES: Twentieth Century Fox Television Distribution will be busy next week screening such shows as the psychological thriller The Exorcist for buyers.

LOS ANGELES: International buyers attending the L.A. Screenings will have the opportunity to screen the new drama Bull, led by former NCIS star Michael Weatherly, from CBS Studios International (CBSSI).

LOS ANGELES: The new Shondaland drama Still Star-Crossed is among the series being presented for buyers at the L.A. Screenings by Disney Media Distribution (DMD).