World Screen

OTTAWA-GATINEAU: The new regulatory framework from the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission (CRTC) supports giving free-to-air commercial broadcasters the ability to negotiate retransmission fees with the pay-TV operators. Calling it a "market-based solution," the proposed regulation allows each television station the …

LONDON: Media Entertainment Group (MEG) has picked up two new titles from the U.S. for its formats slate, Camping with the In-laws and Second Chance Makeover. Created by Clay Newbill at 310 Entertainment (producer of The Mole) and Spike Jones, …

LOS ANGELES: MGM says it is evaluating bids for the company, which reportedly include a $1.5 billion offer from Time Warner. The studio says it has received "a number of bids as part of its ongoing process of exploring strategic alternatives, which …

PARIS: Moonscoop is moving into live action with its new series Super Sportlets, currently in co-production with Kids Workout Factory. The 26×11-minute series, aimed to the 5-to-9 demographic, is done in live action shot on a green-screen stage that is …

LONDON: Five new digital drama properties have been added to the catalogue of Fireworks International, which will head to MIPTV with a variety of fiction and nonfiction programming to debut. Fireworks acquired the digital properties Girl Number 9, Riese, Dimensions, …

SANTA MONICA: Lionsgate’s board has referred to Carl Icahn’s latest tender offer, for all of the company’s outstanding shares, as "financially inadequate and coercive." The offer, a statement from the independent studio said, is "not in the best interests of …

LONDON: RDF Rights and IFC have secured a co-production deal for The Increasingly Poor Decisions of Todd Margaret, a scripted comedy created and written by David Cross, who also stars in the series. The show follows the misadventures of Todd …

NEW YORK: PBS Frontline’s documentary Digital Nation: Life on the Virtual Frontier is now available on Verizon’s FiOS TV Video on Demand. The documentary is part of an ongoing, multiplatform initiative that explores the impact of the web and digital …

COLOGNE: RTL Germany has commissioned Granada Germany to produce a third season of the BBC Worldwide entertainment format Let’s Dance, based on the British hit Strictly Come Dancing. Let’s Dance sees a cast of celebrities partnering with professional dancers to …

HONG KONG: STAR Greater China has renewed its deal with Media Prima Berhad that will result in more than 20 titles from the Fortune Star library heading to the free-TV channels TV3, 8TV, TV9 and NTV7. Media Prima will license …