World Screen

MUNICH/LONDON: TV-Loonland has taken on the rights for the preschool series WordWorld across TV, home entertainment and new media for Western and Eastern Europe, including Russia, Africa and South Africa and Israel. WordWorld includes 74 11-minute episodes, eight music clips …

LONDON: FremantleMedia Enterprises (FME) has acquired the multiplatform drama Slide, which will be the first-ever drama in Australia to launch with an online prequel, followed by episodes to air on Foxtel in April next year. The online elements for Slide …

STOCKHOLM: The Pirate Bay is back online after being briefly shut down today when a Swedish court compelled the file-sharing site’s ISP to pull the plug. A Swedish court told ISP Black Internet that it would face a 500,000 kronor …

LOS ANGELES: The comedic drama Drop Dead Diva delivered its highest ratings ever on Sunday on Lifetime among women 18 to 49 and women 25 to 54. The show scored a 1.8 rating with women 18 to 49, a 16-percent …

LONDON: The British government is exploring a proposal that would terminate the Internet connections of people who repeatedly download illegal content. The statement from the Department for Business, Innovation and Skills said the proposed amendment to the Digital Britain bill …

SANTA MONICA: The documentary producer and filmmaker R.J. Cutler, who is behind the high-profile feature The September Issue, will be a guest keynote speaker at the inaugural WESTDOC documentary and reality conference, taking place in Santa Monica, California, from September …

TORONTO: The Academy of Canadian Cinema Television has announced the nominations for the 24th annual Gemini Awards, honoring the year’s best in Canadian English-language television, with Flashpoint leading with a record 19 nominations. The Tudors garnered the second-most nominations, 11. Being …

SINGAPORE: The market for IP set-top boxes—enabling HD, on-demand and interactive services—will be worth more than $3 billion by 2014, according to ABI Research, while the demand for basic boxes is declining. “Shipments of basic boxes across all television platforms …

LONDON: CBBC has commissioned a junior version of the hit BBC amateur cooking competition MasterChef to air in 2010. Junior MasterChef will challenge children to cook a two-course meal in just one hour. The 13-part series will have eight heats, …

NEW YORK: VH1 and VH1 Classic are launching a programming event centered on The Beatles in support of the highly anticipated launch of MTV Games’ The Beatles: Rock Band on September 9. To kick off the programming lineup, The Beatles …