World Screen

  BUENOS AIRES: Fox Latin American Channels has picked up Impostores (Swindlers), produced by Torneos y Competencias and Palermo TV, from Flor Latina Entertainment Group. Fox Latin American Channels launches the show next month on its pan-regional FX pay-TV channel. …

TORONTO, October 19: Studio B Productions has been commissioned to produce a second season of Kid vs Kat for Disney XD in the U.S. and Disney XD in Europe, while YTV in Canada also ordered further new episodes.   A second …

SINGAPORE: HBO Asia has expanded its HD footprint to Taiwan following rollouts of the premium movie service’s HD channel in Singapore, Hong Kong and the Philippines. HBO is the first regional movie channel to broadcast in high definition in Asia. In …

SYDNEY: Beyond Distribution has notched up deals on its new children’s series Kid Detectives, which launched at MIP Junior.  The half-hour version sold to Ceska Televize in the Czech Republic and Noga in Israel for the Logi Channel. Astro in Malaysia …

BURBANK: Three former Film Roman executives have set up Bento Box Entertainment, a new production firm that is already at work on an animated prime-time series for Twentieth Century Fox Television, Jeffrey Katzenberg and DreamWorks Animation. Bento Box Entertainment aims to …

LONDON: Endemol has secured its first third-party distribution deal in Russia, taking on the rights for Fashion Court, Let’s Get Married and Pride of the Nation throughout Central and Eastern Europe. All three original entertainment formats are from Moscow-based Red …

October 2009 On Europe’s television screens, locally produced drama has been taking on imported American network series for decades. This summer, there was an entirely new field on which that battle was fought—the United States. NBC aired the BBC One …

LAUSANNE: The International Olympic Committee has reached a multiplatform deal with ELTA Technology for the broadcast rights to the 2010 Winter Games in Chinese Taipei (Taiwan). The deal, which also covers the 1st Summer Youth Olympic Games in Singapore in 2010, grants …

LONDON: Darlow Smithson Productions has been commissioned by TLC to produce Plane Crash Survivors, a one-off documentary that tells the stories of people who have survived aviation disasters.  The 45-minute project uses archive footage of actual crashes, interviews with the …

BURBANK: The Time I…, an original short-form series that features kid viewers sharing real stories of important milestones in their lives, is set to premiere on Disney Channel on November 8. The interstitial segments, each about one to two minutes …