World Screen

CANNES: Comcast Entertainment Studios (CES) is making its inaugural outing at MIPTV and is ready to produce on a global scale for networks looking to commission content.  In addition to producing programming for Comcast’s brands such as E! Entertainment Television, …

CANNES: Disney Media Networks Latin America (DMNLA) is partnering with Telemundo Internacional to co-produce a Colombian version of the Chilean telenovela Where is Elisa? Originally produced by Televisión Nacional de Chile, Where is Elisa? will be adapted for RCN in …

LOS ANGELES: Moving Pictures Film and Television has inked deals in 12 territories, including Germany and Japan, on titles such as The Open Door and Noble Things. Germany’s I-ON New Media and Japan’s Tank picked up The Open Door. Mega …

LONDON: BBC Worldwide has closed deals on The Weakest Link format in two new territories, with Macedonia and Armenia set to localize the hit game show. In Armenia, Hay TV will make 90 40-minute episodes to air over two seasons, …

CANNES: Fireworks International, which has been ramping up its portfolio of digital properties, has picked up the international distribution rights to The Booth at the End, a new multiplatform drama series from Michael Eisner’s Vuguru. The 62-part psychological thriller created …

CANNES: Tandem Communications is working with Scott Free Television, Peace Out Productions and Sony Pictures Television on the four-hour event mini-series Pompeii, based on the book by Robert Harris. Announcing the agreement, Rola Bauer, partner and managing director of Tandem …

CANNES: Driver Dan’s Story Train, an animated series that has been airing on CBeebies since January, is headed to ABC TV in Australia, via a deal clinched by Abu Dhabi’s twofour54. The deal for the CGI animated series was concluded by the …

CANNES: The Media Development Authority of Singapore has announced at MIPTV a new international animation fund, offering up S$5 million ($3.5 million) for each qualified project, with worldwide distribution of the funded titles being handled by FremantleMedia Enterprises. The MDA has …

CANNES: Roadshow Entertainment has shored up the Australian and New Zealand DVD and home entertainment rights to Portfolio Entertainment’s new animated series The Cat in the Hat Knows a Lot About That!, which is slated to broadcast on CITV in the U.K. …

NEW YORK: Ben Silverman’s Electus is making its inaugural outing at MIPTV, where the company will showcase a range of digital and linear programming for the international market.  Much Madness is a national food competition, in which competitors from around …