World Screen

LONDON: Momma’s Boys, a dating format from NBC Universal, has secured its first international production deal, with Swedish broadcaster TV 4. The deal has been made for production of ten hour-long episodes of the series, which originally ran for six …

NEW YORK: Academy Award-winner Kathy Bates headlines the cast of the new four-hour movie event Alice, a co-production from Reunion Pictures and Studio Eight distributed by RHI Entertainment, set to premiere on SCI FI Channel in December. Bates (Misery) stars as …

NEW YORK: Time Warner has promoted Mark D’Arcy to president and chief creative officer of its Global Media Group, where he succeeds John Partilla, who is leaving the company to become president of global media sales at Clear Channel Communications. D’Arcy will …

LONDON: ITV Global Entertainment has signed a deal for 50 hours of British and Canadian drama with American Public Television (APT). The package includes Murdoch Mysteries, produced by Shaftesbury Productions, as well as the eighth season of the medical drama …

SÃO PAULO: Globo TV International has closed a deal with Rutavi 2 of Georgia to broadcast the telenovelas The Favorite and Forbidden Desire. The productions are slated to premiere in the second semester of 2009. Globo’s telenovelas Two Faces and …

BANFF: HBO’s John Adams picked up the Grand Jury Prize at the Banff World Television Awards and was named Best Drama, while the Best Entertainment nod went to Food Network Canada’s Family Restaurant: The Quons. Other winners included Passage, produced for BBC Scotland, which …

BANFF: Family Channel and Playhouse Disney in Canada have commissioned six new and returning Canadian original productions, including the half-hour comedy Baxter from Shaftesbury Films.    Baxter is among the new comedies for Family Channel, alongside Angel on Campus from …

MUNICH: The Pillars of the Earth, a Tandem Communications and Muse Entertainment production in association with Scott Free Films, will be headlined by such actors as Ian McShane, Donald Sutherland and Rufus Sewell.  The eight-hour limited series will start shooting …

SAN JOSE: Research firm MRG has issued a "conservative and optimistic" assessment of the global IPTV market, projecting a growth in subscribers from 26.9 million this year to more than 81 million in 2013. In the same period, MRG says, combined (last-mile) …

CANNES: The Simpsons‘ creator, Matt Groening, and executive producer Al Jean will be attending MIPCOM this October as part of the hit animated series’ 20th anniversary celebration. In partnership with Twentieth Century Fox Television Distribution, the long-running FOX series’ international distributor, MIPCOM …