World Screen

MUNICH, November 15: SevenOne International will distribute ProSieben’s new antiwar-themed movie The Bridge, starring Franka Potente. The Bridge has just finished filming in Latvia under the direction of Wolfgang Panzer. The movie is a modern remake of Gregor Dorfmeister’s autobiographical …

LONDON, November 15: Five has commissioned Lion Television to produce a 15-part travel series titled The Rough Guide To…, based on the travel books of the same name. The show will be presented by Julia Bradbury from BBC One’s Watchdog …

LOS ANGELES, November 15: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studios (MGM) has tapped Paul Verhoeven to direct the thriller The Thomas Crown Affair 2, which will be produced with Pierce Brosnan’s Irish DreamTime Productions. Verhoeven has directed films like Basic Instinct, RoboCop, Starship Troopers …

WASHINGTON, November 15: Retirement Living TV (RLTV), the first network dedicated to people 55 and older, has announced that former CBS news anchor Walter Cronkite has joined the channel as a contributor to its live daily program Daily Café. Cronkite’s …

SYDNEY, November 15: The Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC) will roll out ABC3, a new dedicated terrestrial commercial-free children’s TV channel, by April of 2008, with financial backing from the government. The Australian government has committed to provide $82 million over …

LUCERNE, November 15: The Rose d'Or Festival, which honors the best of international television programming, has announced that it is now accepting submissions for the 2008 Rose d’Or awards and has unveiled several newly revised award categories. The awards will …

LOS ANGELES, November 15: NASCAR Digital Entertainment (NDE) and Creative Artists Entertainment Group have partnered for the new culinary reality competition TV series, NASCAR: Serving It Up, which will launch in syndication in September 2008. The 40×30-minute show is a …

LOS ANGELES, November 15: Sony Pictures Television (SPT) solidified its move away from NATPE and into the giant Consumer Electronics Show (CES) by landing comedian Jerry Seinfeld, who will perform on stage at the company’s presentation at the event in …

LONDON, November 15: ITV executive chairman Michael Grade said that BSkyB has purchased shares of ITV in order to “influence events” at the broadcaster to the detriment of other shareholders, according to Media Guardian. BSkyB owns 17.9 percent of ITV’s …

NEW YORK, November 15: On Monday, November 19, U.S. news channel MSNBC will roll out in Southern Africa via the free-to-air satellite platform Free2View TV. The channel, MSNBC Africa, is a joint venture between Great Media and MSNBC. It will …