World Screen

LONDON, June 21: British cable network LIVING has commissioned Granada Entertainment to produce a brand new ten-part reality series, Dirty Dancing: The Time of Your Life, for premiere this fall. The new series coincides with the film’s twentieth anniversary, and …

STAMFORD, June 21: World Wrestling Entertainment (WWE) has secured new deals with free- and pay-TV broadcasters in Poland, Serbia, Greece and Turkey, totaling 196 hours of original programming to these four new markets. In Poland, WWE Raw will be broadcast …

NEW YORK, June 21: At the Licensing Show in New York today, Classic Media announced deals with Crave Entertainment and Ignition Entertainment for console video games based on the new animated TV series George of the Jungle. Games will be …

LONDON, June 21: Namco Bandai Networks Europe has reached a multiyear agreement with FremantleMedia Enterprises to develop, publish and distribute mobile games based on the hit Idols format across a number of territories in Europe, the Middle East and Asia …

NEW YORK/SYDNEY/AUCKLAND, June 21: A&E Television Networks’ (AETN) Crime & Investigation Network will launch in New Zealand on SKY Network Television on September 2. Crime & Investigation Network was first launched in Australia on the FOXTEL platform on January 1, …

SINGAPORE, June 21: The Media Development Authority of Singapore (MDA) and the Korean Broadcasting Commission (KBC) have signed a deal to foster co-productions between their respective markets. The arrangement ensures that approved television co-productions between producers or broadcasters in Korea …

NEW YORK, June 21: VH1 has greenlit seven new series for its third night of original prime-time programming, ranging from the improv comedy Free Radio to the reality series The Salt ‘N’ Pepa Show, featuring the Grammy Award-winning female rap …

MONTREAL, June 21: Canadian producer and distributor FRV Media has reached a deal to acquire Imavision, which distributes TV and DVD titles in North America and French-speaking Europe, for $26 million. The company is being acquired from 4303385 Canada inc. …

LOS ANGELES, June 21: Endemol USA has partnered with Black Entertainment Television (BET) to launch a live late-night call-TV variety show, Take the Cake, on the cable network this July. The one-hour show will debut on BET on Monday, July …

LOS ANGELES, June 21: This summer, The Style Network will launch Pantry Raid, a new one-hour weekly culinary series that aims to help people whip up gourmet meals from unlikely ingredients available in their kitchens. The series sees host Michael …