World Screen

NEW YORK: Of all of CBS’s new fall shows, the reboot of the ’80s series MacGyver generated the most interest in social media, according to analysis from The WIT.

PREMIUM: With a dozen new prime-time series to license to foreign buyers this go-round, Twentieth Century Fox boasts by far the largest bundle of hopefuls on offer at the L.A. Screenings. The viewing sessions on that lot start each morning at 9 a.m. and do not wrap until 7 p.m. “The pilots we’ve seen today are [altogether] the best group of shows Fox has presented in the last five or six years—and I mean best for our viewers back home.” So opined David Shin, the president of Fox Networks Group Japan, whose channels in that key territory program an array of American series and movies.

NEW YORK: The family comedy Speechless, starring Minnie Driver, led the social-media buzz about ABC’s new fall slate, according to analysis from The WIT.

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.