World Screen

LONDON, October 25: Topping FremantleMedia Enterprises’s (FME) slate for the AFM this year is the film Fanny Hill, based on John Cleland’s novel Fanny Hill: Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure and adapted by award-winning screenwriter Andrew Davies. Produced by …

HONG KONG, October 25: Sony Pictures Television International’s youth-skewing anime channel Animax will roll out its new monthly subscription-based mobile service Animax Mobile in Hong Kong and Taiwan. Animax Mobile has already debuted to consumers in Hong Kong through the …

LONDON, October 25: HIT Entertainment has licensed its popular preschool property Fireman Sam to Five and Turner Broadcasting’s Cartoonito in the U.K., for broadcast in spring 2008. Five has licensed the first five seasons and a 20-minute special of Fireman …

BURBANK, October 25: Beginning this Saturday, October 22, Disney Channel will debut High School Musical: The Music In You, an unscripted short-form series of 12 interstitials following a student theatre company in Fort Worth, Texas, as they learn to express …

BURBANK, October 25: Through a deal with the Associated Press, NBC Universal has tapped AP Images as the exclusive third-party distribution outlet in the U.S. and Mexico—and a non-exclusive outlet throughout much of the world—for its archival television photos. Under …

LONDON, October 25: Five has commissioned TalkbackThames to produce a new 35-part cookery entertainment series, Cooking The Books, featuring some of the U.K.’s leading chefs. The daily 30-minute program, presented by Jeremy Edwards (Holby City, Hollyoaks, Celebrity Masterchef), will be …

TAIPEI, October 25: National Geographic Channels International (NGCI) has announced plans to air the one-hour high-definition documentary Inside: The Emperor’s Treasure, providing the first behind-the-scenes look into the rare treasures at the National Palace Museum in Taiwan. Inside: The Emperor’s …

NEW YORK, October 25: SCI FI Channel has renewed the original MGM Television series Stargate Atlantis for a fifth season of 20 episodes. Produced and distributed by MGM Television, Stargate Atlantis is set to resume production in early 2008. It …

LONDON, October 25: In an agreement with Disney-ABC International Television, Polish DTH platform ITI Neovision will make hit ABC series available to viewers on a subscription-video-on-demand basis via its “n’Screen” service, from up to a week after their U.S. linear …

PARIS, October 25: The 23rd edition of MIPCOM set an all-time attendance record, drawing a total of 13,371 participants, a 7-percent increase over the previous year, and also set new records in the number of participating companies, exhibitors and countries …