World Screen

NEW YORK: The International Academy of Television Arts & Sciences has lined up the British comedian Matt Lucas, whose credits include TV shows such as Little Britain and movies including Bridesmaids, as host for this year's International Emmy Awards Gala, …

BEVERLY HILLS: The original animated series F is for Family, based on the comedy of Bill Burr, is coming exclusively to Netflix in 2015. The series, produced by Gaumont International Television and Wild West Television, will be available in all …

CULVER CITY/ZURICH: Sony Pictures Television (SPT) Networks is acquiring 50 percent of Dori Media Group's (DMG) VIVA and VIVA Plus channels and VOD service VIVA Walla in Israel, and 50 percent of its Baby TV operations in Indonesia. The VIVA …

ATLANTA: Turner Broadcasting System has nabbed the network TV rights to the upcoming films Cinderella and The Jungle Book, both from The Walt Disney Studios, to air on the company’s bouquet of channels approximately two years after their theatrical releases. …

At MIPCOM’s Acquisition Superpanel: What Do Buyers Want? session moderated by World Screen’s Anna Carugati, leading programmers from ITV, SundanceTV, Globo and the new Australian SVOD service StreamCo offered up valuable insight into their content wish lists, windowing and more. …

CANNES: At MIPCOM’s Acquisition Superpanel: What Do Buyers Want? session moderated by World Screen’s Anna Carugati, leading programmers from ITV, SundanceTV, Globo and the new Australian SVOD service StreamCo offered up valuable insight into their content wish lists, windowing and …

CANNES: The 30th edition of MIPCOM hosted a record 13,700 delegates, hailing from 112 countries, according to Reed MIDEM. Of the 13,700 attendees, 1,300 were acquiring digital and VOD rights, Reed MIDEM reports. “This has been a record-breaking and a …

MUNICH: A recently released hard-cover book, It's the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown: The Making of a Television Classic, takes a behind-the-scenes look at the iconic Peanuts Halloween special, which first aired in 1966. It's the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown: The …

CANNES: David Stapf, the president of CBS Television Studios, and Armando Nuñez, the president and CEO of CBS Global Distribution Group, discussed the NCIS and CSI franchises, limited series and procedurals versus serialized storytelling in their MIPCOM session, moderated by …

CANNES: This afternoon in Cannes, ITV's Sasha Breslau, TV Globo's Paulo Mendes, Nine's Les Sampson and SundanceTV's Christian Vesper received the 2014 World Screen Content Trendsetter Awards, presented in partnership with Reed MIDEM. The presentation, which marks the fourth year …