World Screen

LONDON, February 7: UKTV Style, in association with E! Canada, has commissioned the Cineflix format A-Listers Unzipped, which will begin airing on the network on March 25 at 11 p.m. A-Listers Unzipped, which is currently being filmed in Canada, features …

LONDON, February 7: The Virgin Media Television-owned entertainment channel Virgin1 has acquired American Inventor from FremantleMedia Enterprises (FME), featuring panelists Peter Jones, George Foreman, Pat Croce and Sara Blakely. The deal covers two seasons of the prime-time reality show, which …

LOS ANGELES, February 7: Comcast International Media Group (CIMG) has signed a number of long-term licensing deals in Latin America, totaling more than 110 hours of entertainment and lifestyle programming from The Style Network. FOXlife and Canal Fox Channel have …

LONDON, February 7: Jamie Oliver’s production company, Fresh One Productions, is joining forces with Nick Jr in the U.K. for a preschool series about cookery with a touch of magic. Titled Made with Magic, the series will combine live action …

NEW YORK, February 7: The U.S.-based free-to-air channel MyNetworkTV has ordered 13 episodes of Under One Roof, a new half-hour comedy series starring Flavor Flav, for broadcast this spring. In the series, Flav plays Calvster Hill, an ex-convict that moves …

TORONTO, February 7: The Banff World Television Festival (BWTVF) has announced that actress Sofia Milos, who stars in the Emmy-winning CBS series CSI: Miami, will receive this year’s Award of Excellence. The 29th edition of BWTVF will take place at …

BURBANK, February 7: NBC has licensed an American adaptation of the Australian comedy Kath & Kim, which will star Saturday Night Live’s Molly Shannon and Legally Blonde’s Selma Blair. Kath & Kim examines the minutiae of middle-class suburbia that digs …

LONDON, February 7: The Emmy-winning youth-targeted news and information network Current TV has reached a distribution agreement with SKY Italia to develop a localized channel for the Italian market. The deal will add an additional 4.24 million households to the …

DUBAI, February 7: DreamWorks Animation has teamed up with Tatweer, a member of Dubai Holding, to develop a diverse portfolio of tourism and leisure projects in Dubai, including the world's first DreamWorks Animation-branded theme park. The DreamWorks Animation-branded theme park …

LONDON, February 7: BBC Worldwide is in talks with several private-equity groups to raise financing for possible acquisitions, according to British press reports. A Financial Times report states that BBC Worldwide is seeking as much as £1 billion to expand …