World Screen

TORONTO, March 17: OUTtv, the Canadian 24/7 cable channel dedicated to gay and lesbian content, has secured a programming and supply deal with here! Network in the U.S. to produce a number of new television series that will air on …

VIENNA, March 17: Arte France has picked up the crime-comedy series Four Women and a Funeral from Austria’s ORF. ORF has already licensed the series to Bosnia, Bulgaria, Ukraine, Russia, Slovenia and Switzerland. Four Women and a Funeral is a …

WASHINGTON, D.C./LONDON, March 17: Smithsonian Channel has commissioned The True Story, a new five-hour co-production from Blink Films and Five. The series investigates the real people and events behind some of the most popular films and film characters of our …

LONDON, March 17: IMG Media’s Darlow Smithson Productions has been commissioned by BBC One to produce Rutka’s Diary, a 40-minute documentary about a young Polish girl who was murdered at Auschwitz in 1943. In 2005, the school notebook of Rutka …

LOS ANGELES, March 17: Comcast International Media Group (CIMG) in Asia has launched an E! Online-branded ad-supported mini-site on MSN in New Zealand that will offer up a daily feed of short-form celebrity news and gossip content. The deal marks …

LOS ANGELES, March 17: Marvel Studios, a subsidiary of Marvel Entertainment, has scored a deal with News Corporation’s FX, allowing the basic-cable network to air five Marvel self-produced features, including the upcoming The Iron Man. This marks Marvel Studios’ first …

NEW YORK, March 17: Carolyn Strauss will leave her post as the president of entertainment programming at HBO, with a search under way by the premium cable channel for her replacement. Strauss has been with HBO for her entire career, …

CULVER CITY, March 17: Bob Osher has been appointed as the new president of the digital production division of Sony Pictures Entertainment (SPE), while Hannah Minghella has been named the president of production for Sony Pictures Animation. Minghella and Tim …

HONG KONG, March 17: A new survey from Media Partners Asia (MPA) predicts that the Indian television industry will grow at an average annual rate of 16 percent to generate more than $11.5 billion in annual revenues by 2012 versus …

NEW YORK/MEXICO CITY, March 17: Grupo Televisa has reached an exclusive agreement to distribute content from NBC Universal's Telemundo across multiple platforms in Mexico, including broadcast TV, pay TV and emerging digital platforms. Beginning in April, Televisa's Channel 9 will …