World Screen

SYDNEY, October 15: BBC Worldwide Australasia has licensed nearly 100 hours of factual and lifestyle content to Australia’s home- and garden-themed HOW TO Channel. In gardening fare, new series licensed to the HOW TO Channel include the 10×25-minute James Martin …

TV Kids Weekly, October 9, 2007 ORIGIN: This program is based on an original idea from Cris Morena. CREATOR: Cris Morena DISTRIBUTOR: Telefe International distributes the series in its original version and as a format. TV SHOW: Teenangels is a …

CANNES/MUNICH, October 15: ZDF and the Tele München Group (TMG) are teaming up for a new adaptation of Jack London’s classic adventure novel The Seawolf, which will air as a two-part mini-series on Austrian broadcaster ORF. The new adaptation follows …

LONDON, October 15: Endemol UK, in association with Mobstar Media, has been commissioned to produce a made-for-mobile thriller, Cell, due to premiere on O2’s mobile network in December. Cell tells two parallel stories about the same man: One involves him …

MIAMI, October 15: MTV Latin America’s sixth annual music event, Los Premios MTV Latin America 2007, airing on Thursday, October 18, will reach more than 270 million households in Latin America, Europe and the U.S. In Latin America, Los Premios …

World Screen Weekly, October 11, 2007 VP, International Sales Comcast International Media Group In November of last year, U.S. cable giant Comcast Corporation took full control of E! Networks from The Walt Disney Company. The deal brought two well-known international …

NEW YORK, October 15: SCI FI Channel is developing a 90-minute dramedy pilot titled Earthlings. The pilot focuses on three humanoid aliens who are stranded in middle America under false pretenses and must figure out how to escape while navigating …

OAKLAND, October 15: National Geographic Digital Media has joined forces with the tween social-networking site imbee.com for the creation of the National Geographic Kids Group, an online community group targeted at Earth-loving kids and tweens, covering content ranging from animals …

LOS ANGELES, October 15: Lifetime Networks has reached a deal with Starz Media to co-produce three original TV movies—True Confessions of a Hollywood Starlet, Queen Sized, and Wisegal—featuring high profile casts that include Alyssa Milano and multiplatinum recording artist JoJo. …

World Screen Weekly, October 11, 2007 LAUNCH DATE: October 16, 2006 COUNTRY: U.K. OWNERSHIP: Five in the U.K., which is fully owned by the RTL Group. DISTRIBUTION: 19.6 million households (77.1 percent of all U.K. households have access to the …