World Screen

LONDON/MUMBAI: BBC Worldwide Productions India has been commissioned by NDTV Imagine to produce a local version of the reality format Baby Borrowers for launch at the end of next month. The Indian version of the format, created by Love Production, will …

LONDON: Grimefighters, a series from British indie HCA Entertainment spotlighting the hidden world of clean-up teams, has joined Passion Distribution’s program roster. Produced for ITV1, Grimefighters has been consistently winning its slot in the U.K. The show focuses on jobs such as …

LONDON: According to a Deloitte/YouGov survey for the upcoming Media Guardian Edinburgh International Television Festival, faster broadband speeds are not necessarily an incentive for consumers to watch more content online. The survey found that 53 percent of the 2,123 viewers polled would …

This interview appeared in the April 2009 MIPTV edition of World Screen.   In spite of the economic decline, Gustavo Cisneros, the chairman and CEO of the Cisneros Group of Companies (CGC), sees great business opportunities for the future, from …

KUALA LUMPUR: MundiSport Management has named Total Sports Asia (TSA) as the exclusive representative for the series Soccer Route 2010 across Southeast Asia, China, Hong Kong and Korea. The 13-episode series provides an introduction and 360-degree coverage of what’s going …

The ins and outs of the judging panel on American Idol have been making numerous headings for the last few weeks. Indeed, as the show gears up for its ninth season on FOX in January, it remains a formidable force …

HONG KONG: The top 40 pay-TV operators in Asia added 5.8 million net new subscribers between them in the first half of this year, taking the combined customer base to 65.3 million, according to Media Partners Asia (MPA). The top …

PASADENA: Syfy has ordered the action-adventure pilot Alphas (working title), executive produced by Gail Berman and Lloyd Braun for BermanBraun Television. The pilot is written by Zak Penn, whose credits include X-Men: The Last Stand and The Incredible Hulk, and Michael Karnow. Alphas follows a team of …

Brand Licensing Europe celebrated its tenth anniversary last year with 190 exhibitors and 4,279 visitors from 60 countries. For this year’s edition, slated for September 30 to October 1, sales are up by some 8 percent and much of the …

BURBANK: The sci-fi series V, a re-imagining of the ’80s mini-series about the world’s first encounter with an alien race, will make its debut on ABC on November 3 at 8 p.m. The plot starts as the world finds spaceships …