World Screen

LONDON: Remarkable Television, an Endemol company, has been commissioned to produce a new factual-entertainment series for BBC Three, Hotter Than My Daughter. The 6×30-minute series will look at the personal image rivalry between family members and close friends. Each episode …

NEW YORK: By the People: The Election of Barack Obama, set to air on November 3 on HBO, follows the ups and downs of the U.S. presidential campaign trail as experienced by Obama, his family, staff and volunteers, over the …

LOS ANGELES: KAOS Entertainment is working with Fireworks International on the worldwide TV distribution strategy for the new wildlife documentary series Grizzly Land, while ContentFilm International will handle the feature-film activities for the project.  The original series looks at the …

SINGAPORE/LONDON: A five-channel bouquet from BBC Worldwide Channels Asia is set to roll out on Hong Kong Cable, with BBC Knowledge, BBC Entertainment, BBC Lifestyle and CBeebies joining BBC World News on the platform by year end. BBC Knowledge joins the …

MONTREAL/OTTAWA: The National Film Board of Canada and the Audiovisual Secretariat of Brazil’s Ministry of Culture (SAv/MinC) have entered into a three-year partnership to collaborate on documentary and animated projects. The alliance will focus on new forms of doc and …

NEW YORK: Kicking off a series of insightful video interviews with World Screen, Roma Khanna, the president of Universal Networks International and Digital Initiatives, talks about the decision to refresh NBCU’s global channel brands and the growth she sees for the …

NEW YORK: Bob and Harvey Weinstein have sold a controlling stake in the exclusive social-networking site asmallworld.net to the 25-year-old Swiss entrepreneur Patrick Liotard-Vogt. Liotard-Vogt becomes chairman of the board of ASmallWorld via the acquisition, as well as the company’s largest …

PAWTUCKET: Two new senior executives have been appointed to the newly formed Hasbro Studios: Lisa Licht and Linda Steiner. Steiner has been named head of girls and preschool programming. Steiner joins Hasbro Studios from Warner Bros. Animation, where she was …

LOS ANGELES: Fox Networks Group’s Fox Reality Channel is scheduled to cease running new programming as of March 31, but may continue to broadcast shows from its library until it is rebranded. “With the changing cable landscape, we’ve made a strategic …

PHILADELPHIA: The online video clip service Redlasso has relaunched with deals in place with a host of local TV stations, after suspending activities last summer amid copyright infringement lawsuits from several major media companies. The service allows bloggers to search and …