World Screen

ATLANTA: Cartoon Network Digital has unveiled the Star Wars: The Clone Wars Game Creator, which gives online users the ability to build their own part of the Clone Wars universe and share it with other gamers. The CartoonNetwork.com site has …

NEW YORK: NBC Universal Domestic Television Distribution has sold The Real Housewives franchise to stations from NBC Local Media, Hearst Television and other broadcast groups for the series to air in syndication Monday through Friday. The hit Bravo series has …

NEW YORK: The new premium channel EPIX is set to launch October 30 with an exclusive Madonna concert, Marvel’s Iron Man and an Eddie Izzard special, among other titles. A joint venture of Viacom, its Paramount Pictures unit, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studios …

MUNICH: A local version of the hit SevenOne International talent show The Successor: The Next Uri Geller is to air live on ANT1 in Greece starting October 24 at 9 p.m. Ο διάδοχος του Uri Geller, produced by ENA Productions, …

LONDON: UKTV has taken on the rights to an additional 11 seasons of Fifth Gear from ALL3MEDIA International, totaling 95.5 hours, for its entertainment channel Dave. UKTV picked up the exclusive multichannel and non-linear broadcast rights for seasons six through …

NEW YORK: DVR playback delivered a ratings boost to the broadcast networks for premiere week in September, with Grey’s Anatomy, The Mentalist and House among the series that added more than 2 million viewers each for time-shifted viewing within seven days of the broadcast date. …

BURBANK: FlashForward, Cougar Town, The Middle and Modern Family have all received full-season orders from ABC. In Cougar Town, Courteney Cox stars as a recently divorced single mother who is dealing with the truths of dating and aging. The show, …

SANTA MONICA: At the 30th American Film Market (AFM), 445 motion pictures will be screened in 27 languages to more than 8,000 buyers and industry professionals from 70-plus countries. Films making their world premiere at the market include Get Low, …

October 5-9, Cannes The cloud-free skies in Cannes matched the renewed sense of optimism in the Palais for this year’s 25th edition of MIPCOM. Numbers released this morning show over 12,000 delegates on site from 103 countries, including more than …

This article originally appeared in the MIPCOM ’09 issue. Shows portraying real people in unscripted situations have been around since the advent of television. First there was Allen Funt’s Candid Camera, which premiered in 1948 and has been called “the …