World Screen

LONDON: Icon Films has been commissioned to produce a third season of the wildlife documentary series Weird Creatures with Nick Baker for Animal Planet International and Science Channel.  The series follows presenter and naturalist Nick Baker as he travels to remote …

NEW YORK: Australia’s Qantas Airlines has signed a deal to broadcast six special Sesame Street videos, available free of charge to all transpacific passengers. These videos feature such Sesame Street characters as Elmo, Abby, Cookie Monster, Bert, Ernie and Oscar. …

LONDON: Endemol UK has received a prime-time commission from Irish broadcaster TV3 for a local version of the hit game show Deal or No Deal, which will be produced in association with the Irish National Lottery.  The 20×1-hour show will be presented …

NEW YORK: In this exclusive video interview, Jessika Borsiczky, the executive producer of ABC’s new hit drama FlashForward, talks about how the series came to television, what makes the show unique and why it has universal appeal.      FlashForward was recently picked …

LOS ANGELES: Production is under way in Toronto on the Hallmark Channel original movie Fairfield Road, with Jesse Metcalfe cast in the lead role.  Metcalfe (Desperate Housewives) plays Noah McManus, a Boston-based political strategist who seems to have it all—his …

LOS ANGELES: The Australian adaptation of the Twentieth Century Fox Television Distribution format Beauty and the Geek scored high ratings in its debut on Seven Network.  The series, which debuted on October 8, averaged 1.1 million total viewers and ranked …

SÃO PAULO: TV Globo International has secured a carriage deal with Telmex TV in Peru, bringing its reach to 54 platforms worldwide. Telmex TV carriage began earlier this month in areas such as Lima, Chiclayo and Piura. It adds to the …

SANTA MONICA: Olive Productions, the production company set up by Steve Buscemi, Stanley Tucci and Wren Arthur, has scored pilot orders from TBS and HBO, with the projects to be co-produced by Lionsgate, with which it has a first-look deal. The …

SYDNEY: Network Ten has commissioned a third season of the action drama series Rush, produced by Endemol-owned Southern Star and distributed internationally by Endemol Worldwide Distribution. The series, set in a critical incident response unit, has sold to France (AB Droits), Canada …

NEW YORK: Scott Sternberg Productions and Weinberger Media have developed a new daily strip, Legal Ease, that features lawyers from New York City law firm Tacopina Law dishing out real legal advice to Americans in need of counsel.  Legal Ease will be shot …