World Screen

BURBANK: Hillary Duff leads the cast of the two-hour original ABC Family movie The Business of Falling in Love, and is also serving as an executive producer. Based on the book Diary of a Working Girl by Daniella Brodsky, The Business …

MONTREAL: The Alliance for Children and Television (ACT), in association with Sinking Ship Entertainment, has lined up Dafna Lemish from Tel-Aviv University to address the topic of what gender means for kids at the upcoming Children, Youth & Media (CYM) Conference.  …

NEW YORK: CBS Consumer Products has teamed up with a number of casual-game developers and video-game publishers to extend the experience for eight popular TV shows, including The Amazing Race and CSI: Crime Scene Investigation. Ubisoft has developed CSI: Crime …

NEW YORK: Dance Your Ass Off, a series that challenges contestants to lose weight by dancing away the pounds, will return for a second season on Oxygen in 2010. Dance Your Ass Off was Oxygen’s most watched freshman series in …

LOS ANGELES: Steve Martin and Alec Baldwin are set to co-host the 82nd Academy Awards, which will be presented March 7, 2010, with a live broadcast on ABC. Martin hosted the 73rd and 75th editions of the awards show, and …

NEW YORK: Sander Schwartz, the executive VP and head of children and family entertainment for FremantleMedia Enterprises (FME), talks about his plans for the new division in this video interview.   When FME decided to expand into the kids’ and family …

  LOS ANGELES: AmericanLife TV Network (ALN) has brought on Aaron Norris, who executive produced the long-running CBS series Walker Texas Ranger, to serve as president of development, with oversight for all acquisitions and production as well. During his time …

HONG KONG: Turner Broadcasting System Asia Pacific is adding to its portfolio of channels in the region with the upcoming launch of truTV in early 2010. Available in more than 90 million U.S. homes, truTV features unscripted programming and primarily targets …

MUNICH: More than 70 new fiction offerings will be showcased by SevenOne International at the AFM, including events like Sea of Death and Factor 8. Sea of Death, produced by Crazy Films, follows as an accident occurs on an oil …

NEW YORK: RHI Entertainment has inked a new distribution agreement with Spanish broadcaster Telecinco, covering more than 100 hours of mini-series and TV movies. The RHI content will air on Telecinco’s flagship terrestrial service as well as on two digital …