World Screen

HILVERSUM: Among the highlights in Endemol’s stable of offerings for international buyers are Wreckreation Nation and Personal Justice. Wreckreation Nation sees U.S. comic David Mordel travel the nation in search of bizarre hometown traditions and wacky pastimes. Personal Justice, meanwhile, …

UNIVERSAL CITY: A host of new and returning series will be featured in NBC’s summer lineup, including The Philanthropist, Merlin and The Listener. I’m a Celebrity…Get Me Out of Here!, based on the international hit from Granada America, will debut …

MEXICO CITY: Terminals leads off Televisa Internacional’s slate for the upcoming MIPTV market, with other formats on offer such as The Show of Dreams. The 13×1-hour Terminals features a young journalist whose life changes when she is diagnosed with an …

NEW YORK: Advertising in the U.S. for the full year 2008 was down 2.6 percent, with expenditures down almost $3.7 billion to a total spend of $136.8 billion, according to preliminary figures from The Nielsen Company. The only two media …

NASHVILLE: Total Nonstop Action (TNA) Wrestling has made its library available on Xbox Live Video Marketplace and Zune Marketplace. A variety of TNA multimedia can be accessed, including 13 TNA Home Video titles, as well as all 12 of TNA’s …

MEVASSERT ZION: The reality game show UPGRADE, which has just been nominated for a Rose d’Or award, will be a highlight on Armoza Formats’ slate for MIPTV. Armoza has landed the first deal for the game show in Poland and …

LONDON: BBC Two plans to air all five seasons of the HBO hit series The Wire, stripped across the week, with transmission dates to be announced shortly. This is the first time the series, which has a total of 60 …

LONDON: ITV and the BBC have signed a Memorandum of Understanding to support cost savings for regional news throughout England and Wales. The two organizations have been discussing possible ways in which they could work together in partnership aimed at …

NEW YORK: Shine Global has teamed up with Hollywood actress Eva Longoria Parker for the documentary film project Harvest, which focuses on the plight of the child farm workers whose efforts help feed America. Parker will serve as executive producer …

NEW YORK: KPI, a production unit of Lightworks Producing Group, is heading into production on The Chosin Few, a one-hour prime-time special that will be broadcast in HD on Smithsonian Channel. For ten days in the winter of 1950, legendary …