World Screen

SÃO PAULO: TV Globo has a mix of documentaries, telenovelas, comedies and mini-series to offer buyers at NATPE, as well as a host of game shows. The Spelling Game combines education and entertainment, while Xtreme Connection puts everyday people and …

NEW YORK: The rising cost of hosting user-generated content online is among the key issues the media industry will be grappling with this year, according to forecasts from Deloitte. Storing content online is becoming increasingly expensive, Deloitte notes; the largest …

NEW YORK: V-me has added the math-based preschool series NumberJacks: Los Supernúmeros to its daily V-me Niños block.  As the exclusive U.S. home for NumberJacks: Los Supernúmeros in Spanish, V-me airs the series weekdays at 12:30 p.m. The series combines fun, thinking skills …

NEW YORK: NFL legend Michael Irvin has teamed up with 3 Ball Productions to develop an original Spike TV series that gives amateur football hopefuls a shot at joining the Dallas Cowboys training camp.  This untitled project was created by …

LOS ANGELES: Cook Yourself Thin, based on the hit British series of the same name that teaches viewers how to cut calories in their meals, joins the Lifetime Television schedule this spring.  Hosted by culinary experts Harry Eastwood, Allison Fishman and Candice …

NEW YORK: NBC Universal’s fourth-quarter profits fell 6 percent to $865 million, on revenues that were down 3 percent to $4.4 billion. The results were announced by GE as part of its fourth-quarter and full-year figures. Jeff Immelt, the chairman and CEO …

LOS ANGELES: ShineReveille International has signed a distribution deal for Love Productions’ new factual series Boys and Girls Alone, marking its first-ever, third-party agreement in the U.K.  The documentary series watches as ten boys and ten girls between the ages …

NEW YORK/MEXICO CITY: HIT Entertainment has teamed up with TV Azteca to launch a branded preschool block on free-to-air television in Mexico. The block, Niños Siete, launched January 4, airing Sundays from 7 a.m. to 9 a.m. The block features a host …

DUNEDIN: NHNZ has teamed up with Science Channel, China Intercontinental Communication Center (CICC) and Discovery Networks Asia to explore some of China’s earliest engineering achievements. The partners are co-producing two hour-long Man Made Marvels specials on ancient Chinese architectural structures. NHNZ has aligned with Chinese archaeologist Dr. …

BURBANK: ABC Entertainment and ABC Studios will be managed together under the ABC Entertainment Group, to be led by Stephen McPherson, as part of a restructure at Disney-ABC Television Group. The ABC Entertainment Group is tasked with primarily developing and producing content for ABC, but …