World Screen

LONDON: Men Who Hate Women, the first feature film in the Millennium trilogy, has been sold by Zodiak Entertainment into five new territories. NFP (Distribution Warner Bros.) in Germany, Paradiso in Japan, Polyfilm in Austria, Mirovision in South Korea and …

LONDON: Caroline Torrance, most recently with Endemol, is joining BBC Worldwide as its director of investment, heading up the company’s content acquisition team. Torrance takes over from Matt Forde, who has been upped to the position of executive VP of sales …

TORONTO: Temple Street Productions, the indie outfit behind series such as Being Erica and Queer as Folk, has signed with Creative Artists Agency for representation in the U.S. Temple Street has exported a number of scripted and nonscripted series into …

SINGAPORE: SPE Networks—Asia’s English-language entertainment channels AXN Beyond and Sony Entertainment Television (SET) have secured carriage in Indonesia on Indovision, joining the flagship AXN and the youth network Animax. “Indonesia is a huge market and it has one of the …

BURBANK: FremantleMedia North America is reviving the Let’s Make a Deal classic game show for CBS, which is scheduled to launch the show, hosted by Wayne Brady, on October 5 in a weekday daytime slot. In the one-hour show, audience …

NEW YORK: truTV has ordered seven episodes of Conspiracy Theory with Jesse Ventura, as well as two other projects from A. Smith & Co. Productions. Conspiracy Theory with Jesse Ventura features the Minnesota governor, who is also former professional wrestler …

NEW YORK: Starcom MediaVest Group (SMG) is working with U.S. Hispanic broadcaster Telemundo for a research initiative that aims to give advertisers a better understanding of Latino consumers—a demographic that stands at about 45 million people with a buying power of …

NEW YORK: The new HBO documentary Which Way Home, which looks at the issue of immigration reform through the eyes of Latin American children who have traveled hundreds of miles to get to the U.S., will debut August 24 at …

NEW YORK: The International Academy of Television Arts & Sciences is calling for entries for next year’s International Digital Emmy Awards, with submissions due November 2. The awards, now in their fifth year, recognize excellence in content created and designed for viewer interaction …

NEW YORK: The premiere of Bravo’s The Real Housewives of Atlanta drew in more than 4 million viewers across its 10 p.m. and 11 p.m. broadcasts, making it the highest-rated premiere in the franchise’s history, according to Nielsen Media Research. …